Minimum graft size calculated from preoperative recipient status in living donor liver transplantation

Shigeru Marubashi, Hiroaki Nagano, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Hiroshi Wada, Tadafumi Asaoka, Yoshito Tomimaru, Akira Tomokuni, Koji Umeshita, Yuichiro Doki, Masaki Mori – 19 December 2015 – Small‐for‐size graft syndrome is an inevitable complication in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). We hypothesized that graft weight (GW) measured after graft procurement is one of the variables predicting postoperative graft function. A total of 138 consecutive recipients of adult‐to‐adult LDLT between March 1999 and October 2014 were included in this study.

Nontumoral portal vein thrombosis in patients awaiting liver transplantation

Hui Chen, Fanny Turon, Virginia Hernández‐Gea, Josep Fuster, Angeles Garcia‐Criado, Marta Barrufet, Anna Darnell, Constantino Fondevila, Juan Carlos Garcia‐Valdecasas, Juan Carlos Garcia‐Pagán – 19 December 2015 – Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) occurs in approximately 2%‐26% of the patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) and is no longer an absolute contraindication for LT. Nearly half of PVT cases are accidentally found during the LT procedure. The most important risk factor for PVT development in cirrhosis may be the severity of liver disease and reduced portal blood flow.

Carbapenem‐resistant Acinetobacter baumannii acquired before liver transplantation: Impact on recipient outcomes

Maristela Pinheiro Freire, Ligia Câmera Pierrotti, Isabel Cristina Villela Soares Oshiro, Patrícia Rodrigues Bonazzi, Larissa Marques de Oliveira, Anna Silva Machado, Inneke Marie Van Der Heijden, Flavia Rossi, Silvia Figueiredo Costa, Luiz Augusto Carneiro D'Albuquerque, Edson Abdala – 19 December 2015 – Infection with carbapenem‐resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) after liver transplantation (LT) is associated with high mortality.

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