BACKGROUND The long-term outcomes of patients undergoing interventions for congenital heart disease (CHD) remain largely unknown. We linked the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium (PCCC) with the National Death Index (NDI) and the United Network for Organ Sharing Dataset (UNOS) registries to study mortality and transplant occurring up to 32 years postintervention. The objective of the current ana...

BACKGROUND Traveling to seek specialized care such as liver transplantation (LT) is a reality in the United States. Patient migration has been attributed to organ availability. The aims of this study were to delineate patterns of patient migration and outcomes after LT. STUDY DESIGN All deceased donor LT between 2008-2013 were extracted from UNOS data. Migrated patients were defined as those ...

The critique of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) liver allocation policy by Kenneth Himma has flaws related to the complexities and evolutionary nature of the field. Recent improvements in transplantation have achieved national attention of this sort. There has been an evolution, unequaled elsewhere in medicine, of a national data set and national rules. The transplant community migh...

urine. Hepatocytes, which are the predominant cell type within the liver, account for two-thirds of the liver mass. The liver is normally able to regenerate after acute injury and regain its function under appropriate physiological stimuli.1 However, when the normal regenerative process is compromised and the residual functional capacity of the damaged liver is unable to sustain life, liver fai...

non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) is a disease of unknown origin characterized histologically by alcoholic-like liver injury in the absence in the absence of significant alcohol intake. this study was conducted to assess the clinical and pathological features of nash patients in iran. patients with elevated liver transaminases, negative serologic markers of viral or autoimmune hepatitis and ...

The implementation of the Milan criteria (MC) in 1996 has dramatically improved prognosis after liver transplantation (LT) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Liver transplantation has, thereby, become the standard therapy for patients with "early-stage" HCC on liver cirrhosis. The MC were consequently adopted by United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) and Eurotransplant for priorit...

We aim to study the impact of the baby boomer (BB) generation, a birth-specific cohort (born 1945-1965) on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-related liver transplantation (LT) in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), alcoholic liver disease (ALD), and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). We performed a retrospective analysis using the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/Organ Procure...

background: regarding to the growing prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld), concentrating on various strategies to its prevention and management seems necessary. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of symbiotic on c‑reactive protein (crp), liver enzymes, and ultrasound findings in patients with nafld. methods: eighty nafld patients were enrolled in this randomize...

Although renal transplant is the preferred modality for end-stage renal disease, it brings with it a number of challenges primarily associated with lack of individualized approach. The goals of the present project were: (1) to determine the most significant and clinically practical predictors of kidney transplant outcomes (patient survival, allograft survival, posttransplant complications) usin...