Successful liver transplantation in hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria syndrome: Case report.

Background: HHH syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of the urea cycle, caused by a deficient mitochondrial ornithine transporter. We report the first successful liver transplantation in HHH syndrome performed in a seven-year-old boy. The patient presented at 4 weeks of age with hyperammonemic coma.

Left-liver Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Can It Be Improved? A Retrospective Multicenter European Study.

Objective: To evaluate the European experience after Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation using the left liver (LL-aLDLT).

Summary Background Data: LL-aLDLT decreases donor risk but provides a smaller graft that increases recipient risk as compared with right liver (RL-aLDLT). However, there is little knowledge of results obtained after LL-aLDLT in Europe.

Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma comparing the Milan, UCSF, and Asan criteria: long-term follow-up of a Western single institutional experience.

Background: In patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the outcome after liver transplantation (LT) is excellent if tumor characteristics are within the Milan criteria (MC). Expanded Asan criteria (AC) have not yet been validated in Western countries.

Methods: A total of 76 patients with HCC underwent LT.

Laparoscopic liver resection compared to open approach in patients with colorectal liver metastases improves further resectability: Oncological outcomes of a case-control matched-pairs analysis.

Aims: Liver resection is considered the standard treatment of colorectal metastases (CRLM). However, to date, no long term oncological results and data regarding repeat hepatectomy after laparoscopic approach are known. The aim of this study is to analyze single center long-term surgical and oncological outcomes after liver resection for CRLM.

Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease: a retrospective analysis of recidivism, survival and risk factors predisposing to alcohol relapse.

Background And Study Aims: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the second most common indication for liver transplantation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the alcohol relapse rate and long-term survival after liver transplantation for ALD and to identify risk factors predisposing to alcohol relapse.

Patients And Methods: Between 2000 and 2007, 108 patients transplanted for ALD in the Ghent University Hospital were included in this retrospective analysis.