Salvatore Gruttadauria, Ivan Vella, Sergio Li Petri, Caterina Accardo, Pasquale Bonsignore, Alessandro Tropea, Sergio Calamia, Duilio Pagano, Gaetano Burgio, Rosalia Longo, Fabrizio di Francesco
{"title":"Liver transplantation after ex vivo normothermic machine preservation without recooling the graft: A clinical series from a single center.","authors":"Salvatore Gruttadauria, Ivan Vella, Sergio Li Petri, Caterina Accardo, Pasquale Bonsignore, Alessandro Tropea, Sergio Calamia, Duilio Pagano, Gaetano Burgio, Rosalia Longo, Fabrizio di Francesco","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000564","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000564","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142950879","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}
{"title":"Noninvasive assessment of renal dysfunction in patients with end-stage liver disease: New solutions for old problems?","authors":"Simone Incicco, Carmine Gambino","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000566","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142950881","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}
Ruy J Cruz, Hao Liu, Ajai Khanna, Colin Powers, Vikraman Gunabushanam, Andrea DiMartini
{"title":"Preoperative assessment of body composition and sarcopenia in candidates for multivisceral transplant .","authors":"Ruy J Cruz, Hao Liu, Ajai Khanna, Colin Powers, Vikraman Gunabushanam, Andrea DiMartini","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000565","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000565","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142950882","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000456
Marie Sinclair, Brooke Chapman, Avik Majumdar, Adam Testro
{"title":"Letter to the Editor: Impact of long-term continuous terlipressin infusion on the liver transplant waitlist in an Australian cohort.","authors":"Marie Sinclair, Brooke Chapman, Avik Majumdar, Adam Testro","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000456","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"E3-E4"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976063","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000479
Sarah R Lieber, Marina Serper
{"title":"Mapping out a Medication Adherence Promotion System (MAPS): Can it reduce graft rejection in pediatric liver transplantation?","authors":"Sarah R Lieber, Marina Serper","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000479","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"7-9"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142126122","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000516
Erin F Barreto, Olivia C Walker, Sumeet K Asrani
{"title":"Cystatin C in decompensated cirrhosis: Shedding the excess baggage in clinical practice.","authors":"Erin F Barreto, Olivia C Walker, Sumeet K Asrani","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000516","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142469073","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000429
Cristina Ripoll, Falk Rauchfuss, Rene Aschenbach, Utz Settmacher, Alexander Zipprich
{"title":"Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for the patients on the liver transplant list.","authors":"Cristina Ripoll, Falk Rauchfuss, Rene Aschenbach, Utz Settmacher, Alexander Zipprich","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000429","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000429","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with cirrhosis-associated and portal hypertension-associated complications may benefit from TIPS and/or liver transplantation. In many patients, the decision of whether or not TIPS should be placed prior to liver transplantation is fairly clear-cut. Nevertheless, there are some patients in whom the decision can be more complex. On one hand, TIPS is easily available in contrast to liver transplantation, and patients with TIPS may have clinical improvement. On the other hand, although TIPS may improve the situation of the patient, this improvement may not be sufficient to significantly improve the quality of life. Furthermore, TIPS malposition may be challenging for liver transplantation surgery. This review approaches the advantages and disadvantages of TIPS placement in patients who are candidates for liver transplantation and proposes decision pathways for patients with complications of portal hypertension on the liver transplant waiting list.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":"31 1","pages":"105-116"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142813659","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000439
Giuseppe Cullaro, Andrew S Allegretti, Kavish R Patidar, Elizabeth C Verna, Jennifer C Lai
{"title":"Cystatin C and the difference between cystatin C and serum creatinine: Improved metrics to predict waitlist mortality among patients with decompensated cirrhosis.","authors":"Giuseppe Cullaro, Andrew S Allegretti, Kavish R Patidar, Elizabeth C Verna, Jennifer C Lai","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000439","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among patients with decompensated cirrhosis, serum creatinine (sCr) is biased by sex, frailty, and hepatic synthetic function, while Cystatin C (cysC) is not. We found that sCr would better associate with waitlist mortality and that the difference between cysC and sCr (cysCsCr diff ) would quantify this bias and be independently associated with outcomes. We measured cysC levels at ambulatory liver transplant visits among 525 consecutive patients seen at our center. We defined the cysCsCr diff as the difference between cysC minus sCr. We compared demographics and clinical characteristics in patients with low, intermediate, and high cysCsCr diff , divided by tertile. We used Cox regression to compare the association between sCr and cysC and waitlist mortality and demonstrate the independent association between cysCsCr diff and waitlist mortality. In Cox regression, cysC was significantly more associated with waitlist mortality than sCr ( p < 0.001). We found that as compared to those with a low cysCsCr diff , those with an intermediate or high cysCsCr diff were more likely to be female, have ascites, have higher frailty, and have higher MELD 3.0 scores ( p < 0.05 for all). Compared to those with a low cysCsCr diff , we found that those in the intermediate and high groups were more likely to die during follow-up (low: 6% vs. intermediate: 8% vs. high: 11%, p = 0.007). We found that after adjusting for the components of the MELD 3.0 score, each 1-point increase in the cysCsCr diff was associated with 1.72× (1.27-2.32) the hazard of waitlist mortality. Our study demonstrates that not only is cysC more associated with waitlist mortality than sCr, but that cysCsCr diff represents a novel independent metric associated with waitlist mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"24-31"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11647667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141748525","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}
{"title":"Implementation of a multicomponent medication adherence promotion system is associated with a decrease in late T-cell-mediated rejection.","authors":"Julie Bonn, Teresa Ambrosino, Kristin Rich, Amy Taylor, Sharad I Wadhwani","doi":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000413","DOIUrl":"10.1097/LVT.0000000000000413","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Poor immunosuppression adherence in pediatric recipients of liver transplant (LT) contributes to late T-cell-mediated rejection (TCMR) in ~90% of cases and increases the risk of mortality. A medication adherence promotion system (MAPS) was found to reduce late rejection in pediatric recipients of kidney transplants. Using quality improvement methodology, we adapted and implemented the MAPS in our LT clinic. Our primary outcome was population-level rates of late TCMR, measured as a monthly incident rate. Three-hundred fourteen patients undergoing LT are currently cared for at our institution. One-hundred sixty-two (52%) are females with a median age of 16 years and a median age at LT of 2 years. Preimplementation, monthly rejection rates were 0.84 rejections per 100 patient-months. After iterative implementation of MAPS over 2.3 years, monthly rejection rates decreased to 0.46 rejections per 100 patient-months, a 45% decrease in late TCMR. Implementation of MAPS was associated with a sustained 45% decrease in TCMR at a single center, suggesting that quality improvement tools may help improve clinical outcomes. MAPS may be an important tool to ensure long-term allograft health. Future studies should rigorously test MAPS across a multicenter sample.</p>","PeriodicalId":18072,"journal":{"name":"Liver Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":"85-91"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11831366/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141175487","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}