Adverse cardiac events after orthotopic liver transplantation: A cross‐sectional study in 389 consecutive patients

Ramona Nicolau‐Raducu, Marina Gitman, Donald Ganier, George E. Loss, Ari J. Cohen, Hamang Patel, Nigel Girgrah, Krish Sekar, Bobby Nossaman – 11 September 2014 – Current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines caution that preoperative noninvasive cardiac tests may have poor predictive value for detecting coronary artery disease in liver transplant candidates.

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Karim J. Halazun, Abbas A. Rana, Rachel E. Patzer, Benjamin Samstein, Robert S. Brown, Jean C. Emond – 11 September 2014

Pretransplant lymphopenia is a novel prognostic factor in cytomegalovirus and noncytomegalovirus invasive infections after liver transplantation

Natalie E. Nierenberg, Debra D. Poutsiaka, Jennifer K. Chow, Jeffrey Cooper, Lori Lyn Price, Richard B. Freeman, Richard Rohrer, David R. Snydman – 10 September 2014 – Infection after liver transplantation (LT) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The risk of infection after LT is highest in those who are most immunosuppressed, but to date, no standard blood marker of one's degree of immunosuppression or risk index has been established.

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