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Caroli's disease and orthotopic liver transplantation [PDF]
Liver Transplantation, 2006 Caroli's disease is a rare congenital hepatic disease, characterized by segmental dilatation of the biliary tree. Patients who have recurrent bouts of biliary infection, particularly those with complications related to portal hypertension, may require orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).
Kapil B. Chopra +6 more
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Combination of Modified Bentall Procedure and Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
Case Reports in Transplantation, 2018 Indication for combined cardiac surgery and orthotopic liver transplantation is rare and patients are at high risks. Individual surgical strategy must be developed since a general standard of such procedure does not exist. We report the case of a 45-year-
Philipp C. Seppelt +3 more
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Liver transplantation and expanded Milan criteria: does it really work?
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2012 CONTEXT: Orthotopic liver transplantation is an excellent treatment approach for hepatocellular carcinoma in well-selected candidates. Nowadays some institutions tend to Expand the Milan Criteria including tumor with more than 5 cm and also associate ...
Marina Vilela Chagas Ferreira +5 more
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Induction of liver transplant immune tolerance in an outbred rat strain model using tacrolimus
Laboratory Animal Research, 2023 Background Orthotopic liver transplantation is the only option for patients with end-stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. Post-transplant immunosuppressive therapy is important to prevent graft failure.
Min-Jung Park +9 more
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FERI: A Multitask-based Fairness Achieving Algorithm with Applications to Fair Organ Transplantation [PDF]
AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2024 May 31;2024:593-602. PMID:
38827050; PMCID: PMC11141863, 2023 Liver transplantation often faces fairness challenges across subgroups defined by sensitive attributes such as age group, gender, and race/ethnicity. Machine learning models for outcome prediction can introduce additional biases. Therefore, we introduce Fairness through the Equitable Rate of Improvement in Multitask Learning (FERI) algorithm for fair ...
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Seizures after orthotopic liver transplantation
Seizure, 1997 Orthotopic liver transplantation is the accepted treatment for endstage liver disease. In the US alone, more than 3000 patients receive liver transplants yearly distributed through more than 100 liver transplant programmes. Neurological complications occur in up to 47% of these patients. Among them, seizures are one of the most common.
R.E. Steg, Z.K. Wszolek
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Aspergillus endophthalmitis in orthotopic liver transplantation [PDF]
Indian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2009 In this report, we describe a patient with drug-induced liver failure who developed endogenous endophthalmitis after liver transplantation. Our patient's clinical course was so fulminant that the eye was lost in less than 1 month, without any response to therapy.
Hosseini, Hamid +3 more
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In vivo and ex vivo methods of growing a liver bud through tissue connection
Scientific Reports, 2017 Cell-based therapy has been proposed as an alternative to orthotopic liver transplantation. The novel transplantation of an in vitro-generated liver bud might have therapeutic potential.
Yusuke Yanagi +11 more
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Early occurrence of acute myelomonocytic leukemia (M4/M5) after liver transplantation: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023 Introduction Acute myeloid leukemia is a rare event in post-liver-transplantation recipients. In the present report, we described a case of extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia, M4/M5 subtype, following orthotopic liver transplant. Case presentation The
Farhad Zamani +7 more
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Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy Is Associated with Long-Term Progression of Renal Disease [PDF]
, 2012 Orthotopic liver transplantation has become the treatment of choice for familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy. The aims of this study were to evaluate the renal complications post orthotopic liver transplantation in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy and
Baptista, A +6 more
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