BACKGROUND: An emerging strategy to expand the donor pool is the use of a steatotic donor liver (SDLs; ≥ 30% macrosteatosis on biopsy). With the obesity epidemic and prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, SDLs have been reported in 59% of al...
This study aimed at developing a fully automatic technique for right lobe graft weight estimation using deep learning algorithms. The proposed method consists of segmentation of the full liver region from computed tomography (CT) images, classificati...
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
Oct 9, 2023
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
Oct 9, 2023
Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation
Sep 1, 2023
Liver Transplantation is complicated by recurrent fibrosis in 40% of recipients. We evaluated the ability of clinical and radiomic features to flag patients at risk of developing future graft fibrosis. CT scans of 254 patients at 3-6 months post-live...
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...
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