Perioperative coagulation profile in living liver donors as assessed by rotational thromboelastometry

Should minors be considered as potential living liver donors?

For many patients, living donor liver transplantation represents their only hope of receiving a lifesaving graft. In certain (albeit rare) cases, a minor will be the only suitable donor. Living liver donation by minors has been reported in several countries. In the academic literature and professional guidelines, little attention is paid to the development of an ethical framework for this pract...

Monitoring of coagulation by intraoperative thromboelastometry of liver transplantation in a patient using warfarin -- case report

a Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Laboratório da Biologia da Cicatrização, Ontogenia e Nutrição de Tecidos (LABICONTE), Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Morfologia e Instituto de Biomedicina, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil b Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Departamento de Pós-graduação de Ciências Médicas, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil c Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Departamento de Anestesia e Tr...

Postoperative Psychiatric Complications in Living Liver Donors.

BACKGROUND To understand the impact of psychologic variables on donor quality of life, we studied long-term data on postoperative psychiatric complications in living liver donors. This study is a focused psychological investigation of diagnoses, treatments, and long-term clinical courses of living liver donors with psychiatric complications. METHODS Of the 142 donors who underwent live-donor ...

Rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM®) – targeted therapy for coagulation management in patients with massive bleeding

Ethanol impairs coagulation and fibrinolysis in whole blood: a study performed with rotational thromboelastometry.

The objective was to study the effects of ethanol on coagulation and fibrinolysis in whole blood. Blood samples from healthy volunteers were analyzed before and after in-vitro addition of ethanol in order to achieve ethanol concentrations of 0, 1, 2 and 4 per thousand, respectively (0, 22, 44 and 88 mmol/l). Coagulation and fibrinolysis were then assessed using rotational thromboelastometry. We...