Liver & Intestine Transplant

Liver & Intestine Transplant News

AAAAI Biliary Atresia Linked to Food Allergy Post Liver Transplant Previous surgeries might prime the gut for immunosuppressant damage.
Medscape Medical News, March 6, 2012
Some Pediatric Liver Recipients Come off Immunosup... Immunosuppressant drugs can be safely withdrawn for a "surprising" percentage of pediatric liver recipients whose grafts came from a parent.
Reuters Health Information, February 13, 2012

The Case of the Soldier-Statesman With a Bloated Belly Guess both the patient and his diagnosis in another historical case from this popular series.
Medscape General Surgery, March 8, 2012
Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis and Early Liver Transplantation A November 2011 study published in NEJM asked whether early liver transplantation can improve survival in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis who are not responding to medical therapy.
Medscape General Surgery, February 24, 2012

Complications of Living Donor Hepatic Lobectomy
American Journal of Transplantation, May 11, 2012
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, May 10, 2012
Mortality and Cancer Risk in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Liver International, May 10, 2012
Biliary Atresia and Survival Without Transplantation
Liver International, April 30, 2012
Pros and Cons for C4d as a Biomarker
Kidney International, April 4, 2012