Dengue Transmission from Donor to Recipient After Living Donor Liver Transplant

The International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipient Guideline

Genomic confirmation of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus transmission from deceased donor to liver transplant recipient

In a liver transplant recipient with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) surgical site and bloodstream infection, a combination of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, and whole genome sequencing identified that donor and recipient VRE isolates were highly similar when compared to time-matched hospital isolates. Comparison of de novo assembled isolate genomes was hi...

The International Liver Transplantation Society Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipient Guideline

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been increasingly embraced around the world as an important strategy to address the shortage of deceased donor livers. The aim of this guideline, approved by the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), is to provide a collection of expert opinions, consensus, and best practices surrounding LDLT. Recommendations were developed from an ana...

Donor health assessment after living-donor liver transplantation.

OBJECTIVE To elicit donor opinions on liver living donation through use of a survey that protected the anonymity of the respondent and to assay long-term (follow-up > 1 year) donor health by a widely recognized instrument for health assessment. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Living-donor liver transplantation is an accepted technique for children that has recently been extended to adults. Limited do...

Negative prognostic impact of renal replacement therapy in adult living-donor liver transplant recipients: preoperative recipient condition and donor factors.

BACKGROUND In deceased-donor liver transplantation settings, post-transplantation acute renal failure with the induction of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is known to have negative effects on graft and patient survivals. However, the impact of RRT in living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has not been well investigated. The aim of this study was to elucidate risk factors requiring RRT and p...