background despite the advances in the treatment of chronic hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection, liver transplantation (lt) remains the only hope for many patients with end-stage liver diseases resulting from hbv. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the rate of hbv recurrence in cases that had undergone lt due to the hbv related liver cirrhosis. patients and methods forty-nine pat...

â  ba ckground the only curative therapy for end-stage liver disease is transplantation but due to a shortage of available donor livers the waiting list mortality is high. this study aimed to evaluate the outcome and characteristics of patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation in shiraz, southern iran during the period from april 2004 to march 2007. methods medical records of all c...

background hospital personnel of services related to donation and transplantation process play a fundamental role in the development of transplantation. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the attitude toward living liver donation (lld) among hospital personnel from services related to donation and transplantation in hospital centers in spain and latin america. materials and met...

objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of sofosbuvir and ribavirin in ldlt recipients with recurrent hcv genotype 4. patients and methods thirty-nine egyptian ldlt recipients were treated for recurrent hcv after ldlt with nucleos(t)ide analog ns5b polymerase inhibitor, sofosbuvir, and ribavirin without pegylated interferon for 6 months (november ...

background: celiac disease (cd) has been found in up to 10% of the patients presenting with unexplained abnormal liver function tests (lft). as there is no precise data from our country in this regard, we investigated the prevalence of cd in patients presenting with abnormal lft. methods: from 2003 to 2008, we measured iga anti-tissue transglutaminase (t-tg) antibody (with elisa technique) with...

post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder is a lymphocyte proliferating disease, usually of b cell origin, and rarely of t cell. involvement of liver itself in liver transplant recipients as the primary organ is not common. herein we report our experience in two patients who primarily presented in the allografted liver, both of whom were promptly diagnosed after liver biopsy and treated succ...

background: today, liver transplantation is a routine procedure in the treatment of patients with end stage liver disease and its survival rate is high. in order to promote health, nurses and other health care professionals need to discover the meanings of lived experiences after liver transplantation. it is important for nurses to know what patients really experience; appropriate nursing inter...

conclusions chlorhexidine mouthwash with an exposure time of 60 seconds or more is suggested as an effective antifungal agent to be included in the medication regimen of liver transplant patients pre- and postoperatively, in order to prevent fungal colonization and subsequent systemic infections. objectives the current study aimed to determine the prevalence of fungal species of candida within ...

conclusions in the iranian population of organ transplantation polypharmacy should be based on a rational basis of scheduled therapeutic drug monitoring. to confirm the presence of a correlation between prograf levels with early or late rejection, nephrotoxicity or neurotoxicity, further studies in a greater number of liver recipients are recommended. patients and methods based on a cross-secti...