Liver and systemic hemodynamics in children with cirrhosis: Impact on the surgical management in pediatric living donor liver transplantation

Catherine de Magnée, Francis Veyckemans, Thierry Pirotte, Renaud Menten, Dana Dumitriu, Philippe Clapuyt, Karlien Carbonez, Catherine Barrea, Thierry Sluysmans, Christine Sempoux, Isabelle Leclercq, Francis Zech, Xavier Stephenne, Raymond Reding – 17 August 2017 – Cirrhosis in adults is associated with modifications of systemic and liver hemodynamics, whereas little is known about the pediatric population. The aim of this work was to investigate whether alterations of hepatic and systemic hemodynamics were correlated with cirrhosis severity in children.

Pediatric liver transplantation for hepatocellular cancer and rare liver malignancies: US multicenter and single‐center experience (1981‐2015)

Rohan Vinayak, Ruy J. Cruz, Sarangarajan Ranganathan, Ravi Mohanka, George Mazariegos, Kyle Soltys, Geoff Bond, Sameh Tadros, Abhinav Humar, J. Wallis Marsh, Robert R. Selby, Jorge Reyes, Qing Sun, Kimberly Haberman, Rakesh Sindhi – 17 August 2017 – A tenth of all pediatric liver transplantations (LTs) are performed for unresectable liver malignancies, especially the more common hepatoblastoma (HBL). Less understood are outcomes after LT for the rare hepatocellular carcinoma, nonhepatoblastoma embryonal tumors (EMBs), and slow growing metastatic neuroendocrine tumors of childhood.

Influence of outflow‐obstructed liver volume and venous communication development: A three‐dimensional volume study in living donors

Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Naoki Okura, Harufumi Maki, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Junichi Kaneko, Junichi Arita, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Kuni Ohtomo, Norihiro Kokudo – 17 August 2017 – Living donor liver transplantation using the left liver graft with the middle hepatic vein (MHV) is a well‐established procedure. Following such procedures, outflow obstruction occurs in remnant livers. However, the effects of the outflow‐obstructed liver volume (LVOut‐Ob), with or without venous communication development, remain unclear.

Increased myocardial contractility identifies patients with decompensated cirrhosis requiring liver transplantation

Christian Jansen, Alexander Cox, Robert Schueler, Matthias Schneider, Jennifer Lehmann, Michael Praktiknjo, Alessandra Pohlmann, Johannes Chang, Steffen Manekeller, Georg Nickenig, Gabriela Berlakovich, Christian P. Strassburg, Christoph Hammerstingl, Katharina Staufer, Jonel Trebicka – 17 August 2017 – Late allocation of organs for transplant impairs post–liver transplantation (LT) survival. Cardiac dysfunction, especially diastolic and autonomic dysfunction, is frequent and plays an important role in the prognosis of patients with cirrhosis.

A randomized, placebo‐controlled trial of cenicriviroc for treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis with fibrosis

Scott L. Friedman, Vlad Ratziu, Stephen A. Harrison, Manal F. Abdelmalek, Guruprasad P. Aithal, Juan Caballeria, Sven Francque, Geoffrey Farrell, Kris V. Kowdley, Antonio Craxi, Krzysztof Simon, Laurent Fischer, Liza Melchor‐Khan, Jeffrey Vest, Brian L.

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