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.

COMPARISON OF STANDARD COAGULATION TESTS AND ROTATIONAL THROMBOELASTOMETRY FOR HEMOSTATIC SYSTEM MONITORING DURING ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION - RESULTS FROM A PILOT STUDY.

With a prevalence affecting over 30% of HIV infected patients, coinfection with hepatitis B (HBV) or C (HCV) virus remains one of the most frequent comorbidities in this population, with a significant ...

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Memorial Hermann has reactivated its liver transplant program after a scandal triggered a yearlong suspension.

Kimberly Toole received a liver transplant last year at Tampa General Hospital. She said her recovery was complicated, but ...

Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant.

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

The Houston-based hospital system abruptly halted the program last year due to a “pattern of irregularities with donor ...

These organoids provide scientists with better models for studying liver biology, and for developing treatments for various liver disorders.