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Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Validation of the UCSF‐Expanded Criteria Based on Preoperative Imaging
TLDR
The results validated the ability of the UCSF criteria to discriminate prognosis after OLT and to serve as selection criteria for OLT, with a similar risk of tumor recurrence and under‐staging when compared to the Milan criteria.
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Recurrent and acquired hepatitis C viral infection in liver transplant recipients.
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A Cost‐Benefit Analysis of Government Compensation of Kidney Donors
TLDR
From the viewpoint of society, the net benefit from saving thousands of lives each year and reducing the suffering of 100 000 more receiving dialysis would be about $46 billion per year, with the benefits exceeding the costs by a factor of 3.
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ASTS Recommended Practice Guidelines for Controlled Donation after Cardiac Death Organ Procurement and Transplantation
TLDR
New guidelines for controlled DCD organ donation and transplantation cover many aspects of DCD kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation, including donor characteristics, consent, withdrawal of ventilatory support, operative technique, ischemia times, machine perfusion, recipient considerations and biliary issues.
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Functional analysis of grafts from living donors. Implications for the treatment of older recipients.
TLDR
Clinical recovery after a small-for-size transplant is characterized by significant functional impairment associated with paradoxical histologic changes typical of ischemia, which has significant implications for the extension of LRLT to adults.
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Intramuscular hepatitis B immune globulin combined with lamivudine for prophylaxis against hepatitis B recurrence after liver transplantation.
  • F. Yao, R. Osorio, R. Gish
  • Medicine, Biology
    Liver transplantation and surgery : official…
  • 1 November 1999
TLDR
The preliminary data suggest that this combination prophylaxis with IM HBIG and lamivudine is effective and potentially cost saving and one patient died unrelated to HBV recurrence.
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Quantifying the Risk of Incompatible Kidney Transplantation: A Multicenter Study
Incompatible live donor kidney transplantation (ILDKT) offers a survival advantage over dialysis to patients with anti‐HLA donor‐specific antibody (DSA). Program‐specific reports (PSRs) fail to…
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Creation of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts with the wallstent endoprosthesis: results in 100 patients.
TLDR
It is concluded that TIPS creation is an effective and reliable means of lowering portal pressure and controlling variceal bleeding, particularly in patients with acute varicesal bleeding unresponsive to sclerotherapy and patients with chronic variceAL bleeding before liver transplantation.
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The effect of the volume of procedures at transplantation centers on mortality after liver transplantation.
TLDR
As a group, liver-transplantation centers in the United States that perform 20 or fewer transplants per year have mortality rates that are significantly higher than those at centers that perform more than 20 transplantations per year.
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"Occult" hepatitis B virus as source of infection in liver transplant recipients
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