Liver transplantation (LT) remains the only cure for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in many cases. Over many years, most centers have applied the Milan criteria for selecting cirrhotic patients with HCC for LT. In a new era where several transplant groups are pushing the limits of transplanting HCC outside Milan criteria as an aggressive approach with promising results, we present interesting i...

Vitiligo is an acquired cutaneous depigmentation disorder which has a deleterious effect on the psychosexual function of many individuals; the genitalia are the common site for depigmentation. Here, the authors report two cases of focal vitiligo affecting the scrotum of the genital organs which were successfully treated by autologous cultured melanocyte transplantation. Autologous cultured mela...

Introduction Advances in the field of scientific knowledge and technology has lead to improvement and better result of autologous tooth transplantation, which is the surgical movement in one individual of a vital or endodontically treated tooth from its original location in the mouth to another site 1 .The earliest reports of tooth transplantation involve slaves in ancient Egypt who were forced...

Title Liver Autotransplantation for an Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Author(s) Takatsuki, Mitsuhisa; Eguchi, Susumu; Hashizume, Koji; Soyama, Akihiko; Hidaka, Masaaki; Tanigawa, Kazuyoshi; Eishi, Kiyoyuki; Kuroki, Tamotsu Citation Transplantation, 98(12), pp.e91-e93; 2014 Issue Date 2014-12-27 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/35370 Right © 2014 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; This is a non-final versi...

Title Macrophage-dominant sialadenitis in human T-cell leukemia virus type Iassociated myelopathy after living-donor liver transplantation. Author(s) Nakamura, Hideki; Ichikawa, Tatsuki; Nakamura, Tatsufumi; Kawakami, Atsushi; Iwamoto, Naoki; Matsuzaki, Toshihisa; Miyaaki, Hisamitsu; Yamasaki, Satoshi; Ida, Hiroaki; Eguchi, Susumu; Hayashi, Tomayoshi; Nakao, Kazuhiko; Kanematsu, Takashi; Eguchi...

The allotype of the sixth component of complement was determined in a patient before and after liver transplantation. The C6 phenotype changed from A before transplantation to B (the donor phenotype) within 10 days of the transplant and remained wholly of the donor phenotype at 17 wk. This demonstrates that the liver is the exclusive or predominant site of C6 synthesis in vivo in man.

There are many alternatives to treat vitiligo, including surgical procedures, which are recommended for patients resistant to other therapies. The melanocyte/keratinocyte transplantation consists in the separation of epidermal cells obtained from a donor site and spreading these cells on the depigmented and dermabraded recipient area. Two patients were submitted to transplantation, showing more...

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lash or rinse solution use in liver transplantation has Fgathered much interest to prevent ischemia-reperfusion injury. Several solutions have been applied for clinical testing, but they remain controversial. Pratschke et al recently reported from a prospective randomized multicenter trial using Tacrolimus rinse based with histidine-tryptophanketoglutarate preservation solution for marginal liv...

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a major threat for liver transplant recipients. We prospectively studied SSIs after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) at Kyoto University Hospital from April 2001 to March 2002 (1st period) and from January 2011 to June 2012 (2nd period). We investigated the epidemiology of SSIs after LDLT and determined the differences between the two periods. A tota...