Liver transplantation today

Guest Editorial Liver Transplantation Today

Liver transplantation: yesterday, today and tomorrow.

With the advances in technical skills, management of postoperative complications and improvements in immunosuppressive drugs, liver transplantation is the standard treatment for many patients with chronic liver disease. Today, shortage of donor organs seems to be the major limiting factor for the application of liver transplantation. This review focuses on five issues that are challenging to cl...

Lung transplantation today.

Lung transplantation has become an accepted surgical modality, and it is indicated in patients with a long-term benign pulmonary disease in stage when all the other therapeutic possibilities failed. Nowadays it presents a real possibility to significantly improve the quality of life. Success, (mainly in the last decade), establishing international professional centers, national coordinations, s...

liver transplantation

however, history of liver transplantation has started in 1963, but after discovery of anti-rejection drugs such as cyclosporine in 1980s, this method has experienced. from 1984 more than 3000 patients underwent surgery and just 1680 patients in 66 liver transplantation centers have operated in 1988. every patient suffers from severe liver diseases and is in terminal stage of this disease, must ...

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Liver Diseases and Recent Developments

Introduction: The intestine, as an important part of the human gastrointestinal tract, provides a favorable milieu for the growth and development of a diverse and large population (approximately 1000 species) of bacteria. Currently, the presence of a cohesive relationship between intestinal bacteria and the host is being well studied and identified. According to the available scientific evidenc...