Publications by authors named "A S Barbas"
Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) facilitates utilization of marginal liver allografts. It remains unknown whether clinical benefits offset additional costs in the real-world setting. We performed a comparison of outcomes and hospitalization costs for donor livers preserved by NMP versus static cold storage (SCS) at a high-volume center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Invasive primary surgical site infections (IP-SSI) are a severe complication of liver transplant surgery. Identification of risk factors for IP-SSI is critical to IP-SSI prevention.
Methods: All adult single liver transplants performed at Duke University Hospital in the period 2015-2020 were reviewed for IP-SSI occurring within 90 d of transplant.
Article Synopsis
- This text talks about how the idea of "textbook outcome" (TO) is being used to create better standards for measuring how well organ transplants work.
- Traditionally, doctors looked at just one year of patient survival to judge their programs, but that's no longer enough.
- The review shows the need for clear TO guidelines that can help hospitals compare their results with others and find ways to improve patient care.