{"title":"Letter to the Editor: Methodological considerations for predicting HCC recurrence after liver transplantation.","authors":"Zhongheng Li","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000646","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144174343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gerald Scott Winder, Juan Pablo Arab, Arpita Goswami Banerjee, Kelly Bryce, David C Fipps, Filza Hussain, Gene Im, Lesley Omary, Arpan A Patel, Shivali Patel, Susan Rubman, Marina Serper, Akhil Shenoy, Joji Suzuki, Paula Zimbrean, Kimberly Brown, Marwan Abouljoud, Jessica L Mellinger
{"title":"From embedded interprofessional clinics to expanded alcohol-associated liver disease programs.","authors":"Gerald Scott Winder, Juan Pablo Arab, Arpita Goswami Banerjee, Kelly Bryce, David C Fipps, Filza Hussain, Gene Im, Lesley Omary, Arpan A Patel, Shivali Patel, Susan Rubman, Marina Serper, Akhil Shenoy, Joji Suzuki, Paula Zimbrean, Kimberly Brown, Marwan Abouljoud, Jessica L Mellinger","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000638","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000638","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hazardous alcohol use remains a major contributor to acute and chronic liver disease, while alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is a leading indication for liver transplantation. In recent years, embedded, interprofessional ALD clinics have improved access to alcohol use disorder care within hepatology and liver transplantation, but more work is needed to meet this challenge. The literature is lacking regarding scaling procedures to provide services for increasingly large ill patient populations. This article begins to fill this gap by describing \"expanded ALD care\": broad, innovative, longitudinal, interprofessional care delivery strategies surpassing standalone clinics. Drawing from analogous patient populations served by collaborative models in primary care and comprehensive eating disorder treatment, the expanded ALD care framework proposes practical strategies toward specific innovations: equipoise between biomedical and psychosocial care elements, increased clinician number and reach, long-term patient relationships, harm reduction and palliative care, outreach to external agencies and clinicians, and enhanced support for patients and families. The article also defines attributes of innovative healthcare systems that support expanded ALD care.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144032332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shannan R Tujios, Jody A Rule, Norman Sussman, Jorge L Rakela, Daniel Ganger, Nathan Bass, Adrian Reuben, R Todd Stravitz, David Kleiner, Hanlin Wang, Eun-Young K Choi, Lan Peng, Matthew Yeh, Bryce Hatfield, Guang-Yu Yang, Ryan Gill, Robert J Fontana, William M Lee
{"title":"Clinical and pathological spectrum of disease severity among patients with acute liver failure (ALF) undergoing deceased donor liver transplantation.","authors":"Shannan R Tujios, Jody A Rule, Norman Sussman, Jorge L Rakela, Daniel Ganger, Nathan Bass, Adrian Reuben, R Todd Stravitz, David Kleiner, Hanlin Wang, Eun-Young K Choi, Lan Peng, Matthew Yeh, Bryce Hatfield, Guang-Yu Yang, Ryan Gill, Robert J Fontana, William M Lee","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000634","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000634","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Listing and transplanting patients with acute liver failure (ALF) is challenging, requiring rapid assessment of the likelihood of recovery. The availability of a large number of ALF liver explants, along with their clinical data, afforded an opportunity to retrospectively evaluate liver transplantation (LT) decision-making. We hypothesized that, with the benefit of hindsight, a small number of patients might have recovered without LT. Three hundred liver explants from ALF patients of varying etiologies who had undergone LT over 22 years in the Acute Liver Failure Study Group registry were reviewed for histopathological features and degree of necrosis by a committee of 8 hepatopathologists. A second committee of 8 experienced transplant hepatologists independently reviewed clinical data on these same 300 patients and retrospectively scored the likelihood that each patient required transplantation. Only 3 (1%) of those reviewed by the Clinical Committee were considered to \"Definitely\" not require liver grafting, while an additional 10 (3.3%) were deemed to \"Possibly\" not require transplantation (Not Likely Group, N=13). There was no difference in the degree of necrosis in explants in these groups, when compared to the remaining Likely Group, N=287 (95.6%), except in acetaminophen (APAP)-associated ALF, where the degree of necrosis was more uniformly graded as severe, correlating with the need for transplantation. Virtually every patient undergoing LT for ALF retrospectively appeared to need their transplant, based on expert clinical consensus review. Overall, there was poor correlation between clinical severity and apparent degree of necrosis seen in the 300 liver explants, except perhaps for APAP subjects.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12353392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144003138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liver TransplantationPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000528
Zhi Mei Sonia He, Gabriel Reyes, Tommy Liu, Malcolm McDonald, Spoorthi Kamepalli, John A Goss, Nhu Thao Nguyen Galvan, Abbas Rana
{"title":"The impact of recipient hypernatremia on pediatric liver transplantation outcomes.","authors":"Zhi Mei Sonia He, Gabriel Reyes, Tommy Liu, Malcolm McDonald, Spoorthi Kamepalli, John A Goss, Nhu Thao Nguyen Galvan, Abbas Rana","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000528","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000528","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In pediatric liver transplants, dysnatremias have been found to have an impact on pretransplant and posttransplant outcomes. However, much of the current literature has focused on waitlist survival, secondary organ damage, and dysnatremia in donors rather than in recipients. To understand the effect of recipient immediate pretransplant hypernatremia on posttransplant mortality, we conducted a multivariable retrospective review analyzing data from 8011 pediatric patients undergoing liver transplantation provided by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Multivariable analysis of hypernatremia showed an increased risk of mortality (OR: 2.49, 95% CI: 1.75, 3.54 for a serum sodium between 150 and 155 mEq/L), while hyponatremia did not show a significant increase in relative risk for mortality (HR: 1.11, 95% CI: 0.75, 1.63 for a serum sodium between 125 and 130 mEq/L). Kaplan-Meier curves stratified by sodium level showed statistically significant differences in outcomes with progressively increasing mortality associated with increasing serum sodium levels. In particular, there is a statistically significant increase in 90-day mortality with serum sodium levels above 150 mEq/L. Hyponatremia had a moderate impact on mortality but was not statistically significant. Our analysis of immediate pretransplantation resolution of hypernatremia also showed improved survival outcomes with a decreased mortality compared to transplant patients with unresolved hypernatremia. In conclusion, immediate pretransplant recipient hypernatremia has a substantial impact on pediatric post-liver transplantation survival. Corrected hypernatremia resulted in decreased mortality compared to uncorrected hypernatremia. Recipient hypernatremia is an important indicator of disease processes and a predictor of poor posttransplantation mortality outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"648-657"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142605021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liver TransplantationPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000518
Fuat H Saner, Dimitri A Raptis, Leen Alchibi, Sami A Kareem, Kris Ann H Marquez, Yasser Elsheikh, Yasir Alnemary, Saleh Alabbad, Markus U Boehnert, Massimo Malago, Dieter C Broering
{"title":"Comparative outcomes of living donor liver transplantation in elderly recipients: A study on morbidity and survival in 1018 recipients.","authors":"Fuat H Saner, Dimitri A Raptis, Leen Alchibi, Sami A Kareem, Kris Ann H Marquez, Yasser Elsheikh, Yasir Alnemary, Saleh Alabbad, Markus U Boehnert, Massimo Malago, Dieter C Broering","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000518","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000518","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the increasing demand of patients requiring liver transplants who are 70 years or older and may have health conditions, this study aimed to assess the outcomes of recipients of living donor liver transplants (LDLTs) in this age group. We conducted an analysis using a prospective registry that included all recipients of LDLT from January 2011 to May 2023. Patients were divided into 2 age groups, 18-69 years and 70 years or older, and their short-term and long-term outcomes were compared. We considered complications as major if they were grade ≥3a (Dindo-Clavien). Among 1018 recipients of LDLT, 71 (7%) were aged 70 years or older. The rates of posttransplant complications of any severity were comparable between the younger and older age groups (46.7% vs. 46%, p = 0.983), as were the rates of major complications (25% vs. 25%, p = 0.995) and in-hospital mortality (6% vs. 7%, p = 0.800). The 1-, 3-, and 5-year graft survival rates were 94%, 86%, and 81% in the younger group and 92%, 87%, and 65% in the older group ( p = 0.090). Similarly, the overall 1-, 3-, and 5-year recipient survival rates were 90%, 85%, and 86% in the younger group and 88%, 86%, and 65% in the older group ( p = 0.100). This study suggests that carefully selected elderly patients can undergo LDLT and achieve comparable short-term outcomes to their younger counterparts.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"630-636"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142503168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liver TransplantationPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000577
M Kyle Jensen, Juan F Gallegos-Orozco
{"title":"Less salt and more water for children-not just dietary, but transplant management too.","authors":"M Kyle Jensen, Juan F Gallegos-Orozco","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000577","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"569-570"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liver TransplantationPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000514
Jordan S Sack, Sander S Florman, Thomas D Schiano
{"title":"Jehovah's Witnesses: Challenges in liver disease management and in liver transplantation.","authors":"Jordan S Sack, Sander S Florman, Thomas D Schiano","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000514","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000514","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients of Jehovah's Witnesses faith who are in need of liver transplantation pose unique challenges. These patients should be seen at transplant centers with experience in caring for Jehovah's Witnesses to formulate careful preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative strategies on an individualized basis with multidisciplinary input to mitigate the risk of bleeding complications and to prepare for potentially catastrophic scenarios. In-depth and individualized conversations about what constitutes acceptable bloodless transfusion strategies both for the patient and for the transplant center should begin as early as possible with an experienced coordinator or church liaison. A therapeutic physician-patient relationship is vital to formulating a safe care plan and to understanding the spectrum of beliefs among Jehovah's Witnesses. There remains a paucity of data on disparities in liver care and outcomes in patients of the Jehovah's Witnesses faith. Future research on liver diseases and liver transplantation in Jehovah's Witnesses should focus on creating registries of patient outcomes and centers with experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"682-693"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142682151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liver TransplantationPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-12-10DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000553
Takeru Yoshimoto, Daisuke Katagiri, Yasuo Tanaka
{"title":"Letter to the Editor: Plasma exchange for alcohol-associated liver disease as a bridge to liver transplantation-A call to expand its adaptation in Japan.","authors":"Takeru Yoshimoto, Daisuke Katagiri, Yasuo Tanaka","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000553","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"E20-E21"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142801367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liver TransplantationPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000538
Bianca Lascaris, Puck C Groen, Silke B Bodewes, Roberto Broere, Otto B van Leeuwen, Jeroen de Jonge, Vincent E de Meijer, Robert J Porte
{"title":"The caveat of biliary pH as biomarker of bile duct viability during normothermic machine perfusion of donor livers.","authors":"Bianca Lascaris, Puck C Groen, Silke B Bodewes, Roberto Broere, Otto B van Leeuwen, Jeroen de Jonge, Vincent E de Meijer, Robert J Porte","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000538","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"694-697"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11999090/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142818549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}