BACKGROUND: Recurrent graft fibrosis after liver transplantation can threaten both graft and patient survival. Therefore, early detection of fibrosis is essential to avoid disease progression and the need for retransplantation. Non-invasive blood-bas...
Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences
Mar 23, 2023
Lee and colleagues describe a groundbreaking total robot-assisted explant hepatectomy followed by robotic engraftment for a patient requiring a living donor liver transplant. This report represents a crucial step towards implementing robot-assisted l...
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
Jan 17, 2023
Precise graft weight (GW) estimation is essential for planning living donor liver transplantation to select grafts of adequate size for the recipient. This study aimed to investigate whether a machine-learning model can improve the accuracy of GW est...
Liver transplantation outcomes have improved in recent years. However, with the emergence of expanded donor criteria, tools to better assist donor-recipient matching have become necessary. Most of the currently proposed scores based on conventional b...
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
May 4, 2022
PURPOSE: This study compared proximal and distal embolization of the splenic artery (SA) in patients with splenic artery steal syndrome (SAS) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) regarding post interventional changes of liver function to iden...
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Jan 11, 2022
Minimally invasive surgery has been introduced for liver transplantations. Although laparoscopic or robot-assisted living donor hepatectomy is being used, minimally invasive surgery is rarely performed in recipients during liver transplantation. A 63...
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Dec 6, 2021
Living donation in many countries is the main resource of organs. Healthy, volunteering individuals deserve the highest safety standards possible in addition to the least invasive technique to procure the organs. Since the introduction of living dono...
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