منابع مشابه
Liver and intestine transplantation.
The most significant development in liver transplantation in the USA over the past year was the full implementation of the MELD- and PELD-based allocation policy in March 2002, which shifted emphasis from waiting time within broad medical urgency status to prioritization by risk of waiting list death. The implementation of this system has led to a decrease in pretransplant mortality without inc...
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The number of liver transplants performed yearly has slowly and steadily increased over the last 10 years, reaching 6441 procedures in 2005. The number of living donor liver transplants performed rose steadily from 1996 to 2001, when it peaked at 519; since 2003 there have been approximately 320 such procedures performed each year. The continual increase in the size of the waiting list for a li...
متن کاملLiver and intestine transplantation in the United States, 1995-2004.
Three years of survival data are now available and the impact of the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) allocation system is becoming clear. After a decline in new registrants to the waiting list in 2002, the number increased to 10 856 new patients in 2004. Since the implementation of MELD, the percentage of patients who have been on the list for 1-2 years has declined from 24% to 19%. Th...
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Background—Haemochromatosis is a common genetic disease leading to iron overload. Although the gene had been identified (HFE), the pathogenesis had not been fully elucidated. The inadvertent transplant of a C282Y homozygous liver and intestine provided a unique opportunity to study this problem. Methods—A 19 year old man underwent orthotopic liver and intestinal transplantation in January 1997 ...
متن کاملLiver and intestine transplantation in the United States, 1997-2006.
Liver transplantation in 2006 generally resembled previous years, with fewer candidates waiting for deceased donor liver transplants (DDLT), continuing a trend initiated with the implementation of the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD). Candidate age distribution continued to skew toward older ages with fewer children listed in 2006 than in any prior year. Total transplants increased due ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Transplantation
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1600-6135
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.3.s4.8.x