Surgery - Transplantation News & Articles

1 Multiphase Multi-Detector Row Computed Tomography in the Setting of Chronic Liver Disease and Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: Can a Series Be Eliminated in Order to Reduce Radiation Dose? Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, May 17, 2013    Clinical Article

2 Early lung retrieval from traumatic brain-dead donors does not compromise outcomes following lung transplantation European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 17, 2013    Review Article

3 Aspergillosis after liver transplantation in the context of common variable immunodeficiency: case report Transplant Infectious Disease, May 17, 2013

4 Evolving aspects of liver transplantation for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, May 17, 2013    Review Article

5 Impact of donor-specific antibodies on results of liver transplantation Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, May 17, 2013    Review Article

6 Impact of nutritional state on lung transplant outcomes The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

7 Donation after circulatory death: current status Current Opinion in Anesthesiology, May 16, 2013

8 The use of lung donors older than 55 years: A review of the United Network of Organ Sharing database The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, May 16, 2013    Review Article

9 Crystalloid flush with backward unclamping may decrease post-reperfusion cardiac arrest and improve short-term graft function when compared to portal blood flush with forward unclamping during liver transplantation Clinical Transplantation, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

10 Living Donor vs. Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation: A Surgeon-Matched Comparison of Recipient Morbidity and Outcomes Transplant International, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

11 Mortality in diabetes: pancreas transplantation is associated with significant survival benefit Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, May 15, 2013    Review Article

12 Why Offered Pancreases Are Refused in the Allocation Process-A Descriptive Study Using Routine Data From Eurotransplant Transplantation, May 15, 2013    Review Article

13 Early results in transplantation of initially rejected donor lungs after ex vivo lung perfusion: a case-control study European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 15, 2013    Review Article

14 Heart transplant systolic and diastolic function is impaired by prolonged pretransplant graft ischaemic time and high donor age: an echocardiographic study European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 15, 2013    Clinical Article

15 Graft macrosteatosis and time of T-tube removal as risk factors for biliary strictures after liver transplantation Clinical Transplantation, May 15, 2013    Clinical Article

16 Fungal infections after liver transplantation: outcomes and risk factors revisited in the MELD era Clinical Transplantation, May 15, 2013    Clinical Article

17 What Liver Transplant Outcomes Can Be Expected in the Uninsured Who Become Insured via the Affordable Care Act? American Journal of Transplantation, May 15, 2013    Clinical Article

18 Intraoperative Cryoprecipitate Transfusion and Its Association with the Incidence of Biliary Complications after Liver Transplantation-A Retrospective Cohort Study PLOS ONE, May 15, 2013    Review Article

19 Abdominal imaging can misdiagnose submassive hepatic necrosis as cirrhosis in acute liver failure Clinical Transplantation, May 14, 2013    Clinical Article

20 Multifocal periostitis as a complication of chronic use of voriconazole in a lung transplant recipient Transplant Infectious Disease, May 14, 2013

1 Liver Transplantation for Nonresectable Liver Metastases From Colorectal Cancer Annals of Surgery, April 15, 2013

2 The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor: A Novel Target for Immunomodulation in Organ Transplantation Transplantation, April 24, 2013    Review Article

3 Biliary cast syndrome post liver transplantation: Risk factors and outcome Liver International, April 2, 2013    Review Article

4 Cumulative incidence of cancer after solid organ transplantation Cancer, April 12, 2013    Review Article

5 Low Rates of Short- and Long-term Graft Loss After Kidney-Pancreas Transplant From a Single Center Low Graft Loss Rates in Kidney-Pancreas Transplant JAMA Surgery, April 18, 2013

6 Efficacy, Outcomes, and Cost-Effectiveness of Desensitization Using IVIG and Rituximab Transplantation, April 5, 2013

7 Replacement of Infected Aortic Prosthetic Graft with Aortic Homograft after Heart Transplantation: 13-Year Follow-Up Journal of Cardiac Surgery, April 4, 2013

8 Prevention of De Novo Hepatitis B in Recipients of Core Antibody-Positive Livers With Lamivudine and Other Nucleos(t)ides: A 12-Year Experience Transplantation, April 10, 2013

9 Management of the Brain-Dead Organ Donor: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Transplantation, April 3, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

10 Prospective multi-center clinical trial of immunosuppressive drug withdrawal in stable adult liver transplant recipients Hepatology, April 4, 2013

11 Echocardiography for detection of portopulmonary hypertension in liver transplantation candidates: Analysis of cutoff values Liver Transplantation, April 15, 2013

12 Impact of Sarcopenia on Survival in Patients Undergoing Living Donor Liver Transplantation American Journal of Transplantation, April 23, 2013    Review Article

13 Use of High-Dose Ganciclovir for the Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Replication in Solid Organ Transplant Patients With Ganciclovir Resistance-Inducing Mutations Transplantation, April 18, 2013

14 De Novo Donor-Specific HLA Antibodies Decrease Patient and Graft Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients American Journal of Transplantation, April 4, 2013    Review Article

15 Clinical predictors of post liver transplant new onset heart failure Liver Transplantation, April 4, 2013

16 Ethical considerations in live donor transplantation: should complications be tolerated? Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, April 4, 2013    Review Article

17 Long-term follow-up of endoscopic therapy in stenosis of the bilio-biliary anastomosis associated with orthotopic liver transplantation Liver Transplantation, April 16, 2013

18 Transplant ureteric stenosis complicating laparoscopic recurrent inguinal hernia repair Hernia, April 11, 2013

19 Interpreting Tacrolimus Concentrations During Pregnancy and Postpartum Transplantation, April 10, 2013    Review Article

20 Unrecognized intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: an analysis of 993 adult cirrhotic liver explants Clinical Transplantation, March 18, 2013