background in the living donor liver transplant setting, the preoperative assessment of potential donors is important to ensure the donor safety. objectives the aim of this study was to identify causes and costs of living liver-donors rejection in the donation process. materials and methods from june 2010 to june 2012, all potential living liver donors for 66 liver transplant candidates were sc...

Objective(s): End-stage hepatic failure is a potentially life-threatening condition for which orthotopic liver transplantation is the only effective treatment. However, a shortage of available donor organs for transplantation each year results in the death of many patients waiting for liver transplantation. Xenotransplantation, or the transplantation of cells, tissues, or organs between differe...

currently, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) is the only curative option for patients with beta-thalassemia major, but liver iron overload in these patients will not decrease and hepatic fibrosis may still progress despite successful hsct. liver biopsy samples were taken from 14 patients (out of 25 patients) who underwent hsct. all patients met three criteria: negative hcv antibody...

background: the study was designed to assess the role of preoperative neutrophil, lymphocyte, and neutrophil?lymphocyte ratio (nlr) in predicting survival outcomes of abo?incompatible liver transplantation (lt). materials and methods: we retrospectively collected the demographic and clinical  characteristics of 71 patients with end?stage liver cirrhosis following abo?incompatible lt in this stu...

conclusions the diagnosis of the high frequency of solitary ttv and co-infection with hbv, in both liver transplanted patients with cryptogenic and determined cirrhosis, emphasized on the importance of ttv infection in the development of cirrhosis, especially in the cases of cryptogenic ones, prompting for further studies the confirm this agent in the etiology of determined cirrhosis. results t...

Tacrolimus, a cornerstone of immunosuppressive therapy in solid organ transplantation, has a narrow therapeutic range with considerable inter-individual and intra-individual pharmacokinetic variability. To date, there is no information on the pharmacokinetics of tacrolimus in Iranian liver transplant recipients. This study was designed to determine pharmacokinetic properties of orally administe...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 aim : the aim of this study was to describe our results and investigate the survival of below - 18 - year - old patients undergoing lrdlt and the factors affecting this. background : living related donor liver transplantation (lrdlt) has become a good option to provide suitable grafts for children with liver diseases. using t...

Objective- The liver has a unique location in the body for performing multiple functions such as,metabolism, detoxification and synthesis. There are limitation for liver transplantation due to shortage ofavailable donors and requires for sophisticated technology and support surgical teams. The purpose of thisstudy was to investigate the hepatocyte transplantation into the spleen of animal model...