Expanding risk assessment parameters improves prediction of waitlist mortality for liver transplants
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Liver transplants: Improving waitlist mortality by improved risk assessment
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Apr 2, 2021
Increased overall survival compared with portal vein embolization, liver resection
In a highly select group of patients with colorectal cancer and nonresectable liver metastases, high liver tumor load, and left-sided primary tumors, liver transplant brought about significantly higher overall survival (OS) rates compared with portal vein embolization (PVE) and liver resection. Thus, liver transplant may be a viable treatment option in future prospective studies of select patients with colorectal liver metastasis, researchers reported.
Although liver resection is the standard of care in patients with colorectal cancer and liver metastasis, few patients qualify as candidates, according to researchers led by Svein Dueland, MD, PhD, of Oslo University Hospital, Norway, who had previously demonstrated significant differences in OS after liver transplant in patients with primary tumors located in the ascending colon compared with those with primary tumors in the rest of the c
Liver Transplantation Serves as a Boon for 6 Children Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic by Karishma Abhishek on April 1, 2021 at 6:27 AM Bangalore city being conducted due to the pandemic.
However, amidst this unfavorable situation, the Integrated Liver Care team at Aster RV Hospital went an extra mile (along with the team s support, guidance and assurance, hospital subsidy towards the transplant, corporate social responsibility funding from industry and crowdfunding) to ensure that 6 children, who had no waiting option for their life-saving liver transplants, had received it 100% successfully.
The six children were suffering from end-stage liver disease and belonged between the age group of 3-10 years and.