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5 maj 2021 · Patient- and center-level characteristics were associated with traveling excess distances for transplant care. The figure shows the results of a multivariable linear regression model with patient- and center-level characteristics as predictors and ETD as the outcome.
Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon Andrew Cameron discusses the liver transplant procedure and recovery, the incision, quality of life after transplant, research and rejection medication.
In 2022, the most common reason for removal was deceased donor liver transplant (63.9%), then living donor liver transplant (12.5%), followed by condition improved and transplant no longer needed (11.2%), too sick for transplant (4.3%), and death (2.8%), among others (Table LI 13).
Among pediatric deceased donor liver recipients for transplants in 2011-2021, graft failure occurred in 5.9% at 6 months, 8.0% at 1 year, 13.1% at 3 years, 13.7% at 5 years, and 20.3% at 10 years from transplant (Figure LI 113).
4 mar 2019 · Patients in the ET@Home study condition will receive four modules of video and print transplant education over a 6-month period (Table 1). The modules sequentially help patients think through what is important to them, learn what it might be like if they became a kidney recipient or involved a living donor, the risks and benefits of each, and ...
In 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 8906 liver transplants were performed in the United States, more than in any previous year (Figure LI 60, Figure LI 61). Adults represented 94.4% of liver transplant recipients, with 7979 deceased donor and 425 living donor liver transplants.
With a global shortage of organs suitable for transplant, some researchers are looking at 3D printing of living tissue as a solution – but to do it they might need to go into orbit.
