The Prognostic Utility of Intraoperative Allograft Vascular Inflow Measurements in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation

Amit Nair, Kazunari Sasaki, Teresa Diago Uso, Giuseppe D’Amico, Bijan Eghtesad, Federico Aucejo, Choon Hyuck David Kwon, Masato Fujiki, Charles Miller, Koji Hashimoto, Cristiano Quintini – 15 June 2021 – Donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation improves deceased donor liver use and decreases waitlist burden, albeit at an increased risk of biliary complications and inferior graft survival. Employing liver vascular inflow measurements intraoperatively permits allograft prognostication.

Impact of Public Health Policies on Alcohol‐Associated Liver Disease in Latin America: An Ecological Multinational Study

Luis Antonio Díaz, Francisco Idalsoaga, Eduardo Fuentes‐López, Andrea Márquez‐Lomas, Carolina A. Ramírez, Juan Pablo Roblero, Roberta C. Araujo, Fátima Higuera‐de‐la‐Tijera, Luis Guillermo Toro, Galo Pazmiño, Pedro Montes, Nelia Hernandez, Manuel Mendizabal, Oscar Corsi, Catterina Ferreccio, Mariana Lazo, Mayur Brahmania, Ashwani K. Singal, Ramon Bataller, Marco Arrese, Juan Pablo Arab – 15 June 2021

Subjective Cognition Reported by Caregivers Is Correlated With Objective Cognition in Liver Transplant Recipients

Dami Ko, Mary S. Dietrich, Katherine A. Gifford, Sheila H. Ridner – 15 June 2021 – Objective cognitive assessments, a gold standard diagnostic tool for cognitive impairment, may not be feasible in busy liver transplantation (LT) practice because they are often time consuming. This study determined whether subjective cognition, patients’ self‐ratings and/or caregivers’ ratings of patients’ cognition, reflects objective cognition in LT recipients.

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