Morbidity and Mortality Rounds in Liver Transplantation

Morbidity and mortality after liver resection Running title: Morbidity and mortality after liver resection

Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality after kidney transplantation.

Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) who would otherwise require dialysis. Patients with ESRD are at dramatically increased cardiovascular (CV) risk compared with the general population. As well as improving quality of life, successful transplantation accords major benefits by reducing CV risk in these patients. Worldwide, cardiovascul...

Trauma-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Elderly Patients

Objectives: The purpose of this multi-center study was to investigate the probable predictive factors of mortality and morbidity in elderlypopulation. Methods & Materials: The descriptive prospective study was conducted based on the data gathered from trauma cases older than 65 years admitted to Sina, Shohada and Fayaz-Bakhsh trauma centers during years 1997-98. A pre-prepared questionnaire ...

Orthotopic liver transplantation in high-risk patients: risk factors associated with mortality and infectious morbidity.

BACKGROUND One of the most controversial areas in patient selection and donor allocation is the high-risk patient. Risk factors for mortality and major infectious morbidity were prospectively analyzed in consecutive United States veterans undergoing liver transplantation under primary tacrolimus-based immunosuppression. METHODS Twenty-eight pre-liver transplant, operative, and posttransplant ...

Parents' Education Level and Mortality and Morbidity of Children after Liver Transplantation

BACKGROUND So far numerous post-transplant outcome predictors have been studied to decrease the loss of resources and grafts after organ transplantation. The role of education, as a predictor, in liver transplantation outcome has so far been studied in several articles. However, in most of the studies it was evaluated as a surrogate for socioeconomic status or other variants. The absolute impac...