Impact of quality as well as quantity of skeletal muscle on outcomes after liver transplantation

Yuhei Hamaguchi, Toshimi Kaido, Shinya Okumura, Yasuhiro Fujimoto, Kohei Ogawa, Akira Mori, Ahmed Hammad, Yumiko Tamai, Nobuya Inagaki, Shinji Uemoto – 1 August 2014 – Intramuscular fat accumulation has come to be associated with loss of muscle strength and function, one of the components of sarcopenia. However, the impact of preoperative quality of skeletal muscle on outcomes after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is unclear.

Inflammation‐based scores do not predict post‐transplant recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients within milan criteria

Ioanna Parisi, Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Hasitha Wijewantha, Manuel Rodríguez‐Perálvarez, Laura De Luca, Pinelopi Manousou, Evangelia Fatourou, Giulia Pieri, Vassilios Papastergiou, Neil Davies, Dominic Yu, TuVinh Luong, Amar Paul Dhillon, Douglas Thorburn, David Patch, James O'Beirne, Tim Meyer, Andrew K. Burroughs – 1 August 2014 – Increased preoperative inflammation scores, such as neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and inflammation‐based index (IBI) have been related to post‐transplant HCC recurrence.

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