Usefulness of liver stiffness measurement during acute cellular rejection in liver transplantation

Severe Acute Hyperkalemia during Pre-Anhepatic Stage in Cadaveric Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

A serious hazard to patients during orthotopic liver transplantation is hyperkalemia. Although the most frequent and hazardous hyperkalemia occurs immediately after reperfusion of the newly transplanted liver, morbid hyperkalemia could happen in the other phases during orthotopic liver transplantation. However, pre-anhepatic hyperkalemia during orthotopic liver transplantation is rare. This rep...

Eosinophilia in patient with acute cellular rejection after liver transplantation--case presentation and literature overview.

Acute cellular rejection (ACR) is still an important problem affecting patients after liver transplantation. Early diagnosis is necessary for initiate treatment, but there are not simple, noninvasive methods to confirm the diagnosis, and up to now, the gold standard in the evaluation of ACR is liver biopsy. The blood eosinophilia seems to be a promising tool supporting the diagnosis and monitor...

Identification of Novel and Noninvasive Biomarkers of Acute Cellular Rejection After Liver Transplantation by Protein Microarray

BACKGROUND Acute cellular rejection (ACR) is one of the main factors in transplanted organ failure in liver transplantation. A precise marker for diagnosing or predicting rejection is not currently available; therefore, invasive liver biopsy is standard procedure. To develop a noninvasive method for precise diagnosis of ACR, we evaluated autoantibodies from patient sera as potential biomarkers ...

Prognostic model for early acute rejection after liver transplantation.

Hepatic graft rejection is a common complication after liver transplantation (LT), with a maximum incidence within the first weeks. The identification of high-risk patients for early acute rejection (EAR) might be useful for clinicians. A series of 133 liver graft recipients treated with calcineurin inhibitors was retrospectively assessed to identify predisposing factors for EAR and develop a m...

Acute Rejection of Liver Grafts