Causes of retransplantation after primary liver transplantation in 4000 consecutive patients: 2 to 19 years follow-up

Causes of retransplantation after primary liver transplantation in 4000 consecutive patients: 2 to 19 years follow-up.

Causes of death after liver transplantation in 4000 consecutive patients: 2 to 19 year follow-up.

One thousand six hundred thirty-three patients (40.8%) have died during the follow-up period. The causes of death at various time intervals from transplant are shown in Table 1. Infection has remained the most common cause of death at all time points, comprising 28.4% of !he deaths. This was followed with recurrent or de novo cancers (11.6%), cardiovascular (8.3%), and respiratory (7.0%) causes...

Tacrolimus for primary liver transplantation: 12 to 15 years actual follow-up with safety profile.

BACKGROUND Tacrolimus has been increasingly used for liver transplantation during the last decade. The drug has immunological advantages in short- to medium-term follow-up. However, data on longitudinal follow-up are lacking. AIM The aim of the present report was to examine the impact of tacrolimus in primary adult and pediatric liver transplantation (LTx) patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD One ...

Surgery in Cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up

Background: During last decades, many otologists attempted to make a long standing dry ear, resulting in better hearing after cholesteatoma surgery. This study evaluated the prognosis of two common methods of cholesteatoma ear surgery considering ten years follow-up. Methods: This retrospective analysis was done using medical records of 108 adult patients with cholesteatoma. After ten years of ...

Surgery in Cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up

Dear Editor, I was greatly interested in the article "Surgery in cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up" by Dr. M. Ajalloueyan published in your journal in March 2006; Vol 31, No 1: 37-40.I think there are grave misconceptions and many doubts about this article. That article has some misleading data that should be clarified by the author. The descriptions of table 1, "Statistical characteristics of...