Outcomes of donor evaluation in adult‐to‐adult living donor liver transplantation

James F. Trotter, Karen A. Wisniewski, Norah A. Terrault, James E. Everhart, Milan Kinkhabwala, Robert M. Weinrieb, Jeffrey H. Fair, Robert A. Fisher, Alan J. Koffron, Sammy Saab, Robert M. Merion, A2ALL Study Group – 29 October 2007 – The purpose of donor evaluation for adult‐to‐adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is to discover medical conditions that could increase the donor postoperative risk of complications and to determine whether the donor can yield a suitable graft for the recipient.

Streptococcus salivarius bacteremia and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in liver transplantation candidates

Manjushree Gautam, Kapil B. Chopra, David D. Douglas, Rebecca A. Stewart, Shimon Kusne – 29 October 2007 – Bacterial infections are a serious complication of end‐stage liver disease (ESLD) that occurs in 20% to 60% of patients. We retrospectively reviewed medical records of patients with ESLD who were identified by our microbiology laboratory as having Streptococcus salivarius bacteremia. Of 592 patients listed for transplantation between January 1998 and January 2006, 9 (1.5%) had 10 episodes of S salivarius bacteremia.

Assessment of acute pulmonary vascular reactivity in portopulmonary hypertension

Giovanni L. Ricci, Maria Teresa Melgosa, Felip Burgos, José Luis Valera, Sandra Pizarro, Josep Roca, Roberto Rodriguez‐Roisin, Joan Albert Barberà – 29 October 2007 – The role of acute pulmonary vasodilator testing in portopulmonary hypertension (PoPH), a current contraindication for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), has not been thoroughly elucidated.

Postoperative hyperbilirubinemia and graft outcome in living donor liver transplantation

Shigeru Marubashi, Keizo Dono, Hiroaki Nagano, Tadafumi Asaoka, Naoki Hama, Shogo Kobayashi, Atsushi Miyamoto, Yutaka Takeda, Koji Umeshita, Morito Monden – 29 October 2007 – Little information is available on the characteristics and clinical significance of serum bilirubin level early after liver transplantation. The aim of this study was to clarify the risk factors for early graft loss and to assess the significance of postoperative hyperbilirubinemia as a predictor of graft outcome in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

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