Systemic effects of tissue plasminogen activator-associated fibrinolysis and its relation to thrombin generation in orthotopic liver transplantation [PDF]
, 1989 Orthotopic liver transplantation is frequently associated with hyperfibrinolysis, the origin and clinical relevance of which is largely unknown. In 20 orthotopic liver transplantations, we studied the occurrence and systemic effects of hyperfibrinolysis.
Bontempo, FA +5 more
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Mesenchymal stem cells: potential application for the treatment of hepatic cirrhosis
Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2018 Nowadays, orthotopic liver transplantation is considered the most efficient approach to the end stage of chronic hepatic cirrhosis. Because of the limitations of orthotopic liver transplantation, stem cells are an attractive therapeutic option ...
Yongting Zhang +4 more
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Optimizing Equitable Resource Allocation in Parallel Any-Scale Queues with Service Abandonment and its Application to Liver Transplant [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We study the problem of equitably and efficiently allocating an arriving resource to multiple queues with customer abandonment. The problem is motivated by the cadaveric liver allocation system of the United States, which includes a large number of small-scale (in terms of yearly arrival intensities) patient waitlists with the possibility of patients ...
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Interleukin-2 receptor antagonists for pediatric liver transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies [PDF]
Pediatric Transplantation, 18(8):839-850, 2014, 2014 Interleukin-2 receptor antagonists (IL-2RA) are frequently used as induction therapy in liver transplant recipients to decrease the risk of acute rejection while allowing the reduction of concomitant immunosuppression. The exact association with the use of IL-2RA however is uncertain.
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Live transplantation in children with biliary atresia and vascular anomalies [PDF]
, 1974 Eight of 29 infants and children undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation for extrahepatic biliary atresia had associated major vascular anomalies.
Lilly, JR, Starzl, TE
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2015 Liver transplantation is the only available treatment for some patients with end-stage liver disease. Despite reduction in mortality rates due to advances related to surgical techniques, intensive medical management and immunosuppressive therapy ...
Luis E. Barrera-Herrera +3 more
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Orthotopic liver transplantation for fulminant and subacute hepatic failure [PDF]
, 1988 Fulminant and subacute hepatitis are conditions characterized by rapid liver failure, which can lead to death in 80 to more than 95% of the cases with medical supportive care only.
Iwatsuki, S, Starzl, TE, Stieber, AC
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A Case of Giant Cell Hepatitis Recurring after Liver Transplantation and Treated with Ribavirin
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000 A patient who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation for giant cell hepatitis with cirrhosis and in whom giant cell hepatitis recurred twice after orthotopic liver transplantation is reported.
Ziad Hassoun +9 more
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Liver transplantation after DRESS syndrome: A case report and review of the literature
Clinical Case Reports, 2020 This study reports a patient with DRESS syndrome, associated with liver failure, treated with orthotopic liver transplantation.
Igor Lepski Calil +7 more
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Liver Segmentation from Multimodal Images using HED-Mask R-CNN [PDF]
Multiscale Multimodal Medical Imaging. MMMI 2019. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, vol 11977, 2019 Precise segmentation of the liver is critical for computer-aided diagnosis such as pre-evaluation of the liver for living donor-based transplantation surgery. This task is challenging due to the weak boundaries of organs, countless anatomical variations, and the complexity of the background.
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