The timing of OLT is important because, on the one hand, a long and only modestly impaired survival with chronic liver disease should not be preempted by death due to an unsuccessful OLT nor ...

in-situ and ex-vivo technical variant liver allograft preparation, single-incision laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy, intra- and extra peritoneal kidney transplantation, as well as orthotopic ...

Our transplant surgeons perform orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) at the Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Texas Children's Hospital, and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. Baylor faculty ...

Microbiological bile analysis might, however, have a role in patients with complications of orthotopic liver transplantation and those in whom adequate biliary drainage has not been achieved.

For those with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), indications for liver transplantation include end-stage liver failure (as suggested by a MELD score >16), the onset of liver cancer, intractable symptoms ...