Liver Transplant Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Liver Transplant, including details on risks, prognosis, procedure, surgery, organ donation.

Volume 4 (2008), Issue 7 (July)

1. Use of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score to predict 1-year survival of Japanese patients with cirrhosis and to determine who will benefit from living donor liver transplantation.
   J Gastroenterol, 43(5): 363-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Histologic abnormalities are common in protocol liver allograft biopsies from patients with normal liver function tests.
   Am J Surg Pathol, 32(7): 965-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Evaluation of the right ventricular ejection fraction during orthotopic liver transplantation under propofol anaesthesia.
   Br J Anaesth, 101(2): 161-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Prophylaxis followed by preemptive therapy versus preemptive therapy for prevention of human cytomegalovirus disease in pediatric patients undergoing liver transplantation.
   Transplantation, 86(1): 163-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Liver transplantation trends for older recipients: regional and ethnic variations.
   Transplantation, 86(1): 104-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Liver transplant for hepatitis C virus: effect of using older donor grafts on short- and medium-term survival.
   Arch Surg, 143(7): 679-85; discussion 685. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Cost prediction in liver transplantation using pretransplant donor and recipient characteristics.
   Transplantation, 86(2): 238-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Biliary tract depiction in living potential liver donors at 3.0-T magnetic resonance cholangiography.
   Invest Radiol, 43(8): 594-602. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. MR cholangiography for evaluation of hilar branching anatomy in transplantation of the right hepatic lobe from a living donor.
   AJR Am J Roentgenol, 191(2): 537-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Hepatocellular carcinoma in liver transplantation candidates: detection with gadobenate dimeglumine-enhanced MRI.
    AJR Am J Roentgenol, 191(2): 529-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Cavernous transformation of portal vein: 16-slice CT portography and correlation with surgical procedure of orthotopic liver transplantation.
    Abdom Imaging, 33(5): 529-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Paraumbilical collateral veins on MRI as possible protection against portal venous thrombosis in candidates for liver transplantation.
    Abdom Imaging, 33(5): 536-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Biliary complications after orthotopic liver transplantation: MRCP findings.
    Abdom Imaging, 33(5): 542-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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