Pathology of human liver transplantation.

Pathology of Liver Transplantation

Human Liver Transplantation

^hen Welch (1955) reported his first experimental 'yer transplants in dogs, he wrote "it is interesting to ^Peculate about the possibilites of transplanting the ^Uman liver in part or as a whole. The two problems donation and technique of operation seem by themSelves to be insurmountable obstacles with our preSent knowledge. Nevertheless, if some kind of assisance from a donor liver were availa...

Hidden pathology of kidney disease after liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is the definite modality for the treatment Although the sample size was small, this study presented of end-stage liver disease. Although the surgical approaches have substantially increased the success rate of liver transplantation, there are still a number of obstacles to encounter after liver transplantation. One of them is kidney disease. According to previous reports, ...

Endotoxemia and human liver transplantation.

Ninety liver transplantations were performed in 81 patients. Plasma endotoxin was measured preoperatively, at the end of the anhepatic phase, and on postoperative days 1, 3, and 7. The presence of high endotoxin levels preoperatively and at the end of the anhepatic period was associated with graft failure and a high mortality. Patients with primary nonfunction of their transplants typically had...

Pathology of Renal Transplantation

Renal transplantation has become the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) resulting from a variety of causes. The short-term patient and graft outcomes have improved markedly over the recent years (Hariharan et al., 2000). Renal transplant recipients are subject to all those diseases which affect the general population. In addition, like all other allograft recip...