Publications by authors named "Bengt A Wiemann"
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- The study analyzed 1645 liver transplants, focusing on 421 pediatric cases at Hannover Medical School from 2005 to 2021, highlighting the lack of comprehensive data in this area.
- It found that pleural effusions were the most common postoperative complications (49.4%), with donor age and recipient age being significant risk factors for developing them.
- The authors suggest that preventive measures like intraoperative chest drain placement may improve outcomes, particularly for those at risk of biliary complications and retransplantation.
Background: Compared with primary transplantation, ipsilateral renal re-transplantation is associated with an increased risk of surgical complications and inferior graft outcomes. This study investigates whether an ipsilateral re-transplantation approach is an independent risk factor for surgical complications and early graft loss.
Methods: In this retrospective, single-centre analysis, surgical complications and early graft outcomes of ipsilateral kidney re-transplantations from January 2007 to December 2017 were compared with primary transplantations and contralateral re-transplantations.
The rapidly aging population in industrialized countries comes with an increased incidence of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCC) which presents new challenges for oncological treatments especially in elderly patients. Thus, the question arises to what extent the benefit of surgical resections, as the only curative treatment option, outweighs possible perioperative risks in patients ≥ 80 years of age (octogenarians). We therefore retrospectively analyzed 311 patients who underwent resection for iCC at Hannover Medical School between January 1996 and December 2022.
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