At a time when the judicious use of a broad range of immunosuppressive drugs has ensured
excellent patient and organ survival rates after kidney transplantation, attention is focusing …

Each year, 16,000 patients receive whole organ transplants in the United States alone, and
this number is expected to increase yearly (1). Because the 1-yr survival rate for most …

Previous studies indicate that ischemic preconditioning protects against lung injury resulting
from hepatic ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) through inhibition of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) …

Background. Celsior is an extracellular-type, low-viscosity, preservation solution already
used for heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplantation. We report the results of a single …

BACKGROUND: Intravascular volume replacement therapy is an important issue in the
perioperative management of liver transplantation. There is paucity of data on the safety of …

BACKGROUND: Graft shortage makes multiorgan procurement mandatory. We describe the
results of a simplified method for the en bloc procurement of multiple organs, which permits …

Acute liver failure (ALF) is not an uncommon complication of a common disease such as
acute hepatitis. Viral hepatitis followed by antituberculosis drug–induced hepatotoxicity are …

The liver and pancreas work together to recover homeostasis after hepatectomy. This study
aimed to investigate the effect of liver resection volume on the pancreas. We collected …

BACKGROUND: Although the use of Celsior has been recently described for heart, lung,
liver, and kidney transplantation, no data are available on its use for clinical pancreas …

The incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) in liver transplanted people is reported to be 1.5-
8%. On the other hand, the evidence for a causal relationship between glucagon-like …