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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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The Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patient, 2019
The field of liver transplantation has changed since the MELD scoring system became the most widely used donor allocation tool. Due to the MELD-based allocation system, sicker patients with higher MELD scores are being transplanted.
M. Bleszynski, P. Kim
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The field of liver transplantation has changed since the MELD scoring system became the most widely used donor allocation tool. Due to the MELD-based allocation system, sicker patients with higher MELD scores are being transplanted.
M. Bleszynski, P. Kim
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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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Split-Liver Transplantation: An Underused Resource in Liver Transplantation
Transplantation, 2008Split-liver transplantation is an efficient tool to increase the number of liver grafts available for transplantation. More than 15 years after its introduction only the classical splitting technique has reached broad application. Consequently children are benefiting most from this possibility.
Xavier, Rogiers, Egbert, Sieders
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