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Critical Care Clinics, 1990
Organ transplantation offers increased survival and improved quality of life to many patients with end-stage liver disease. Major advances in this field have included better organ acquisition and preservation as well as improved intraoperative techniques and management.
P G, Stock, W D, Payne
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Organ transplantation offers increased survival and improved quality of life to many patients with end-stage liver disease. Major advances in this field have included better organ acquisition and preservation as well as improved intraoperative techniques and management.
P G, Stock, W D, Payne
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Hospital Medicine, 2003
Liver transplantation has evolved from an experimental procedure to an acceptable therapy for end-stage liver disease. The major challenges now faced are donor organ shortage, long-term complications related to immunosuppressive therapy, and the prevention and treatment of disease recurrence.
Kathryn L, Nash, Alexander E S, Gimson
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Liver transplantation has evolved from an experimental procedure to an acceptable therapy for end-stage liver disease. The major challenges now faced are donor organ shortage, long-term complications related to immunosuppressive therapy, and the prevention and treatment of disease recurrence.
Kathryn L, Nash, Alexander E S, Gimson
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Annali italiani di medicina interna : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di medicina interna, 2004
Liver transplantation represents the first choice treatment for patients with fulminant acute hepatitis and for patients with chronic liver disease and advanced functional failure. Patients in the waiting list for liver transplantation are classified according to the severity of their clinical conditions (evaluated using staging systems mostly based on
Pompili, Maurizio +3 more
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Liver transplantation represents the first choice treatment for patients with fulminant acute hepatitis and for patients with chronic liver disease and advanced functional failure. Patients in the waiting list for liver transplantation are classified according to the severity of their clinical conditions (evaluated using staging systems mostly based on
Pompili, Maurizio +3 more
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Partial liver transplantation-living donor liver transplantation and split liver transplantation
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2007In the last two decades, liver transplantation (LTx) has become the treatment of choice for several liver diseases including hepatocellular carcinoma in selected cases. Improvements in surgical and anesthesiological procedures have increased patient survival after LTx, resulting in excellent 1-year survival rates.
Sascha A, Müller +8 more
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Transplantation Proceedings, 2006
Seventy-five thousand Americans develop organ failure each year. Fifteen percent of those on the list for transplantation die while waiting. Several possible mechanisms to expand the organ pool are being pursued including the use of extended criteria donors, living donation, and split deceased donor transplants.
Yersiz, H. +7 more
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Seventy-five thousand Americans develop organ failure each year. Fifteen percent of those on the list for transplantation die while waiting. Several possible mechanisms to expand the organ pool are being pursued including the use of extended criteria donors, living donation, and split deceased donor transplants.
Yersiz, H. +7 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2001
Since the introduction of the split-liver transplantation procedure 15 years ago a variety of partial liver transplantations have been developed. The earliest form of split-liver transplantation consisted of reduction of a whole liver graft to just the left lateral segment or the left liver lobe, which was then small enough to transplant to a young ...
de Jonge, Jeroen +3 more
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Since the introduction of the split-liver transplantation procedure 15 years ago a variety of partial liver transplantations have been developed. The earliest form of split-liver transplantation consisted of reduction of a whole liver graft to just the left lateral segment or the left liver lobe, which was then small enough to transplant to a young ...
de Jonge, Jeroen +3 more
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Fatty Liver and Liver Transplantation
Clinics in Liver Disease, 2009Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis are common complications of overnutrition and obesity. In the setting of worsening epidemics of obesity in developed and developing countries, the global prevalence and impact of NAFLD seems likely to increase.
Edith, Koehler +2 more
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Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Progress in Transplantation, 2002Pediatric liver transplantation is a fast-growing and challenging field. Healthcare providers must stay informed of advancements in the management of liver transplant candidates and recipients. The goal of this paper is to provide nurses who care for pediatric liver transplant candidates and recipients with a review of the basic medical management of ...
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