Is Age a Limitation for Organ Donation? A Comparison of Elderly and Non-elderly Donors in a Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation Program from South India.

To bridge the gap between demand and supply of organs, deceased donors with extreme ages can be utilized. The object of this study was to compare elderly with non-elderly donors and to assess the predictors of organ utilization or wastage. This was a retrospective chart analysis.

[The hepatorenal syndrome - a review].

The Hepato Renal Syndrome (HRS) remains a diagnostic and therapeutic conundrum. Controversies persist in the definition, understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms, diagnosis, and therapy of renal dysfunction complicating End Stage Liver Disease (ESLD).While ESLD is complicated by dysfunction in multiple organs, renal disease holds particular bearing on long term outcomes.

Mycophenolate mofetil-induced colitis with graft versus host disease-like features in a liver transplant recipient.

Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is a commonly used immunosuppressive drug in the management of transplant recipients. Gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity (diarrhea) is the most frequently reported adverse event in MMF-treated transplant patients. MMF-induced Graft versus Host Disease has rarely been reported in literature.

Critical care issues in adult liver transplantation.

Over the last decade, liver transplantation has become an operational reality in our part of the world. As a result, clinicians working in an intensive care unit are more likely to be exposed to these patients in the immediate postoperative period, and thus, it is important that they have a working knowledge of the common complications, when they are likely to occur, and how to deal with them. The main focus of this review is to address the variety of critical care issues in liver transplant recipients and to impress upon the need to provide favorable circumstances for the new liver to start functioning and maintain the function of other organs to aid in this process.