Background: Despite continuous progress in the field of liver transplantation, considerable
proportion of patients still suffer from the postoperative graft dysfunction. Clinically, it …

Background Changes within the gut microbiota contribute to the progression of chronic liver
diseases. According to the results of several studies performed in animal models, gut …

The use of marginal liver grafts has become an inevitable option because of the continuous
increase in the number of patients awaiting liver transplantation and the severe shortage of …

Risk analysis of cold ischemia time (CIT) in liver transplantation has largely focused on
patient and graft survival. Posttransplant length of stay is a sensitive marker of morbidity and …

The Share 35 policy was implemented in June 2013 to improve equity in access to liver
transplantation (LT) between patients with fulminant liver failure and those with cirrhosis and …

Aim Acute kidney injury (AKI) commonly occurs in patients after liver transplantation (LT).
However, few studies have focused on AKI and its correlation with clinical outcomes under …

Background The Model for End-stage Liver Diseases (MELD) is currently the most widely
accepted scoring system for predicting prognosis and for allocation of liver grafts in patients …

BACKGROUND Donor-recipient size mismatch (DRSM) is considered a crucial factor for
poor outcomes in liver transplantation (LT) because of complications, such as massive …

Background: Cold ischemia time is related to success of liver transplantation. Aim: To
compare the impact of cold ischemia time on allografts locally collected to those collected …

Background A high model of end-stage liver disease (MELD) score (> 30) adversely affects
outcomes even if patients receive prompt liver transplantation (LT). Therefore, balanced …