Sociodemographic differences in early access to liver transplantation services.

The question of whether health care inequities occur before patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) are waitlisted for transplantation has not previously been assessed. To determine the impact of gender, race and insurance on access to transplantation, we linked Pennsylvania sources of data regarding adult patients discharged from nongovernmental hospitals from 1994 to 2001. We followed the patients through 2003 and linked information to records from five centers responsible for 95% of liver transplants in Pennsylvania during this period.

Sonographic diagnosis and outcome of hepatic artery thrombosis after orthotopic liver transplantation in adults.

Objective: The objective of our study was to determine the timing and frequency of symptomatic hepatic artery thrombosis in an adult orthotopic liver transplant population, the sensitivity of Doppler sonography for this diagnosis, and the clinical and sonography outcomes in this population.

Materials And Methods: The subjects included all adult recipients with orthotopic liver transplants during a 10.5-year period.

Six year disease free survival after liver transplantation in a patient with T3 gallbladder carcinoma: case presentation and review of the literature.

Background: The incidence of gallbladder carcinoma in cirrhotics is unknown. Known risk factors are primary sclerosing cholangitis and polypoid masses.

Case Presentation: A sixty year old with primary sclerosing cholangitis, cirrhosis, and gallbladder polyps underwent liver transplantation.

Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease presenting as adrenal insufficiency: case report.

This is the first reported case of lymphoproliferative disease presenting with adrenal insufficiency after liver transplantation. A 38-year-old white man was admitted 8 months after transplantation for cryptogenic cirrhosis with fever (38-39 degrees C), chills, cough, and dyspnea. His blood pressure was 100/70 mm Hg, there was pallor of the conjunctiva, and a lymph node was palpable in the left groin.