Victor Navarro, Steven Herrine, Charles Katopes, Beth Colombe, C. Victor Spain – 22 March 2006 – The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between human leukocyte antigen (HLA) compatibility and liver transplantation outcomes by analyzing the effect of HLA compatibility on 5‐year graft survival. We analyzed first liver transplants between 1987 and 2002 in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) database, where A, B, or DR loci data were available. Graft failure was defined as retransplantation or death from transplant‐related cause.

Jan Michael Langrehr, Gero Puhl, Marcus Bahra, Maximilian Schmeding, Antonino Spinelli, Thomas Berg, Constanze Schönemann, Veit Krenn, Peter Neuhaus, Ulf Peter Neumann – 22 March 2006 – The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching on outcome, severity of recurrent hepatitis C and risk of rejection in hepatitis C positive patients after liver transplantation (LT).

Young S. Oh, Mauricio Lisker‐Melman, Kevin M. Korenblat, Gary R. Zuckerman, Jeffrey S. Crippin – 22 March 2006 – A 61‐yr‐old liver transplant recipient presented with abdominal cramping and nonbloody diarrhea resulting in orthostasis. Multiple ulcerations throughout the colon were seen during endoscopy, and biopsies from the ulcer edges revealed histoplasmosis. Treatment with a course of itraconazole improved the diarrhea. The patient later presented with pericarditis and symptomatic pleural effusions, the latter of which was confirmed to be a result of disseminated histoplasmosis.

Jeane M. Tsutsui, Sandeep Mukherjee, Abdou Elhendy, Feng Xie, Elizabeth R. Lyden, Edward O'Leary, Anna C. McGrain, Thomas R. Porter – 22 March 2006 – Although dobutamine stress echocardiography has been used for the preoperative evaluation of patients with advanced liver disease (ALD), no data exist regarding the value of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with real‐time myocardial contrast echocardiography (RTMCE) in this patient population. We sought to determine the value of MPI during dobutamine stress RTMCE for predicting prognosis in patients with ALD.

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James D. Perkins – 22 March 2006

Benjamin L. Shneider, Sukru Emre – 22 March 2006

Linsheng Guo, Mauricio Orrego, Hector Rodriguez‐Luna, Vijiyan Balan, Thomas Byrne, Kapil Chopra, David D. Douglas, Edwyn Harrison, Adyr Moss, K. Sudhakar Reddy, James W. Williams, Jorge Rakela, David Mulligan, Hugo E. Vargas – 22 March 2006 – The question of possible earlier and more aggressive recurrence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) compared to deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) remains unanswered.

Marina Berenguer – 22 March 2006

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