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Liver transplantation for viral hepatitis in 2015 [PDF]

, 2016
Liver transplantation (LT) is a life-saving treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease and for patients with liver cell cancer related to liver disease.
Bortoluzzi, Ilaria, Burra, Patrizia, Ferrarese, Alberto, Gambato, Martina, Germani, Giacomo, Nadal, Elena, Russo, FRANCESCO PAOLO, Senzolo, Marco, Zanetto, Alberto   +8 more
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Split Liver Transplantation and Pediatric Waitlist Mortality in the United States: Potential for Improvement

Transplantation, 2019
Background. In the United States, 1 in 10 infants and 1 in 20 older children die on the liver transplant waiting list. Increasing split liver transplantation could increase organ availability for these children, without decreasing transplants in adults ...
E. Perito, G. Roll, J. Dodge, S. Rhee, J. Roberts   +4 more
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PCSK9 promotes tumor growth by inhibiting tumor cell apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma

Experimental Hematology & Oncology, 2021
Background Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), one of the key enzymes in the process of lipid transport, is involved in the disease progression of various types of tumors.
Shi-Zhe Zhang, Xiao-Dong Zhu, Long-Hai Feng, Xiao-Long Li, Xue-Feng Liu, Hui-Chuan Sun, Zhao-You Tang   +6 more
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Transplantation in children [PDF]

, 1976
Kidney transplantation in very young children, less than 2 years of age, has usually failed, mainly because of difficulties maintaining these patients on hemodialysis long enough to permit retransplantation after loss of the original graft.
Charles W. Putnam, DeShazo, Kendrick A. Porter, Lilly, Lilly, Richard Weil, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Thomas E. Starzl   +15 more
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Minimizing Incision in Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Initial Experience and Comparative Analysis of Upper Midline Incision in 115 Recipients

Transplant International
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) needs “Mercedes Benz” or “J-shaped” incision, causing short and long-term complications. An upper midline incision (UMI) is less invasive alternative but technically challenging.
Amit Rastogi, Ankur A. Gupta, Raghav Bansal, Fysal Kollanta Valappil, Kamal S. Yadav, Suchet Chaudhary, Prashant Bhangui, Swapnil Dhampalvar, Narendra S. Choudhary, Neeraj Saraf, Arvinder S. Soin   +10 more
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Liver transplantation for type I and type IV glycogen storage disease [PDF]

, 1993
Progressive liver failure or hepatic complications of the primary disease led to orthotopic liver transplantation in eight children with glycogen storage disease over a 9-year period.
A. G. Tzakis, AS Guerra, B Illingworth, B. I. Brown, BI Brown, BI Brown, BI Brown, CA Alper, D Raum, DA Merrill, E. Yunis, GA Bannayan, GB Reed, GM Greene, GT Cori, H Zellweger, HG Hers, HL Greene, IT Ferguson, JJ Malatack, JJ Siekierka, KR McMaster, MW Harding, N Kashiwagi, N Kashiwagi, R. S. Kendall, R. Selby, RC Nordlie, S Servidei, S. Todo, T Ishihara, T. E. Starzl, TE Starl, TE Starzl, TE Starzl, TE Starzl, TE Starzl, V Mazzaferro   +37 more
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Liver transplantation [PDF]

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 2005
Liver transplantation continues to change as we further define appropriate criteria for allocation and utilization of this scarce resource. The following review highlights new trends and ideas in this evolving field.Although the model for end-stage renal disease (MELD) scoring system appears to fairly accurately predict mortality while waiting for ...
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Physical frailty after liver transplantation

American Journal of Transplantation, 2018
Frailty is prevalent in liver transplant candidates, but little is known of what happens to frailty after liver transplantation. We analyzed data for 214 adult liver transplant recipients who had ≥1 frailty assessment using the Liver Frailty Index (LFI ...
J. Lai, D. Segev, C. McCulloch, K. Covinsky, J. Dodge, S. Feng   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Early postoperative controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score is associated with complication III-V after hepatectomy in hepatocellular carcinoma: A retrospective cohort study of 1,334 patients

Scientific Reports, 2018
Postoperative complication III-V is closely related with hepatectomy-related mortality for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between CONUTS and postoperative complication III-V.
Lei Li, Chang Liu, Jiayin Yang, Hong Wu, Tianfu Wen, Wentao Wang, Bo Li, Lvnan Yan   +7 more
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Whole-genome sequencing reveals the evolutionary trajectory of HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma early recurrence

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022
Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have poor long-term survival following curative resection because of the high rate of tumor early recurrence. Little is known about the trajectory of genomic evolution from primary to early-recurrent HCC.
Shao-Lai Zhou, Zheng-Jun Zhou, Cheng-Li Song, Hao-Yang Xin, Zhi-Qiang Hu, Chu-Bin Luo, Yi-Jie Luo, Jia Li, Zhi Dai, Xin-Rong Yang, Ying-Hong Shi, Zheng Wang, Xiao-Wu Huang, Jia Fan, Jian Zhou   +14 more
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