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Filter by:This study aims to compare the short and long term outcomes of living donor and deceased donor liver retransplantation. Bearing that in mind, the investigators will retrospectively analyze the files of patients whom underwent a liver retransplantation in Memorial Bahcelievler Hospital Organ Transplantation Center.
The Department of Organ Transplantation in Memorial Hospitals has started Pediatric Liver Transplantation Program in 2016. As of the end of 2020, we have performed 169 pediatric liver transplantation. The aim of this study is to investigate the overall mortality, morbidity and risk factors for adverse outcomes in pediatric liver transplantation. The patients' records will be retrospectively scanned and the data will be gathered.
An organ intended for transplantation is normally stored on ice (cold storage, CS) after explantation from the donor. During this storage process, damage to the endothelial glycocalyx occurs. It is known from numerous studies that the integrity of the endothelial glycocalyx is necessary for organ function. Normothermic machine perfusion is an alternative storage method for explanted livers, where the graft is perfused with warm blood. This study aims to clarify the influence of normothermic machine perfusion on endothelial glycocalyx damage of the graft.
This study's objective is to evaluate the incidence rate of acute rejection reactions after 24 weeks treatment with ADVAGRAF® following 3 months treatment with tacrolimus in new liver transplant recipients. Treatment conversion will take place from twice daily tacrolimus to once daily tacrolimus (ADVAGRAF) 3 months after transplant in new liver transplant recipients.
In solid organ transplant recipients, poor adherence to immunosuppressant medications carries the risk of graft rejection (needing a new transplant), post-transplant complications, and increased healthcare costs. Additionally, nonadherence to immunosuppressant medications is imperative to short- and long-term outcomes. The rate of nonadherence in this population varies vastly. Because of lacking objective and accurate nonadherence measurements, both to immunosuppressant drugs and medical indications, the true implications and prevalence of nonadherence is not yet well understood. Therefore, investigators believe that mobile health (mHealth) technology has the potential to allow clinicians and researchers to more comprehensively address and understand nonadherence in solid organ transplant recipients. The aim of this study is to conduct a randomized control trial to compare medication adherence among liver and kidney transplant patients who use the mHealth system against controls who do not.
Hepatocellular cancer is the 6th most common seen disease in the world and the 3rd in cancer-related deaths. Liver transplantation is the primary curative treatment of HCC, as it eliminates liver cancer and underlying cirrhosis. However, liver transplantation is not offered to every HCC patient, since advanced stage HCC patients are lost with tumor recurrence early after liver transplantation. The Milan criteria, which are accepted worldwide, are the patient selection criteria that we have to follow in cadaver-to-liver transplantation for HCC in our country. However, as the Milan criteria are very strict criteria, it pushes patients out of liver transplantation who exceed the Milan criteria but who can benefit from liver transplantation. Liver transplantation centers all over the world have declared their own criteria under the expanded Milan criteria. In our country, Malatya Criteria have been defined by İnönü University on this subject, and our studies on this subject still continue. When we scan the original articles of all these defined criteria, incomplete data are formed and therefore the strength of the criteria cannot be clearly revealed. For this reason, we aimed to analyze the results of our center and present information about the power of the criteria to the literature.
Liver transplantation (LT) is one of the widely recognised and leading treatments for end-stage liver disease. Nutrition impacts its success. Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is usually prescribed for patients recommended prolonged fasting after LT. The supplement of SMOFlipid (soybean oil, MCT oil, olive oil, and fish oil) is easily metabolised to produce energy, and it possesses anti-inflammatory effects; however, SMOFlipid emulsion use raises concerns regarding coagulopathy after LT. This study investigated the postoperative correlation between SMOFlipid and coagulation in LT.
Liver transplantation (LT) is a current life-saving procedure performed as an open-abdominal surgery for patients with end-stage liver diseases (ESLD). However, a high risk of post-surgical complications is relevant to major intra-abdominal interventions. In managing post-LT recovery, it is important to consider the extending pre-transplant physical status of ESLD patients concerning an impaired exercise capacity, a prolonged period of deconditioning, fatigue and muscle weakness, which leads to global motor impairment and decreased functional capacity. Sarcopenia and physical deconditioning are known as the hallmark features of ESLD. The quality and the quantity of skeletal muscle mass have been closely correlated with post-transplantation mortality in individuals undergoing LT. In addition to chronic deconditioning or myopathy related to chronic liver failure, post-transplant immunosuppressive medication contributes to increased risk for age-related decline in muscular strength and physical ability. It reportedly persists impaired physical function including reduced muscle strength, which have been consistently associated with impaired quality of life after a liver transplant. Exercise interventions in solid-organ recipients provide improvements in physical function including skeletal muscle strength. The literature has defined many types of exercise-based interventions including aerobic and resistive training or physical activity counselling in improving physical performance tasks, muscle strength and physical domain of quality of life in postoperative liver transplanted adults. Although there are studies in improving muscle performance and functional status, no study conducted in the post-transplant early period and an optimal exercise regimen for post-liver recipients. In the present study, it will be provided a framework for a possible change in practice aiming to improve muscle strength and functionality in liver recipients through a strength training exercise intervention at the early post-transplant period. The purposes of this trial were: 1) to evaluate the feasibility and safety of a strength exercise training program on functional mobility and quality of life of liver transplanted individuals and 2) to initiate physiotherapy protocols in this population. A key component of this approach was that it was individualized, providing one-to-one therapy with tailored progression specific to a person's individual mobility goals.
In Italy, since August 2014, liver transplantation (LT) candidates with MELD≥30 receive a priority allocation consenting them to access in an organ sharing macroarea. The primary intent of this policy is to minimize the higher risk of waiting list dropout observed in these patients. Another objective of this allocation strategy is to reduce the waiting time, thus performing the LT in better clinical conditions. This multicentre retrospective national study aims to evaluate several parameters of efficacy and equity, such as waiting time in the list, dropout rate, and graft survival, in two eras of enlisted patients, before and after the introduction of the macroarea sharing policy in Italy. With the intent to minimize the presence of possible selection biases, the two groups were matched trough Propensity Score Matching (PSM).
It's a randomized control trial to compare early drain removal versus standard drain removal after donor hepatectomy in terms of donor outcomes. We will analyse the data and elucidate the safety of early drain removal using 3x3 rule with routine drain removal.