Quality of Life after 10 Years of Liver Transplantation.

Aim: This study goal was to evaluate the long-term quality of life of patients who underwent cadaveric liver transplants (CLT) in two Brazilian hospitals.

Methods: Medical records of all patients who underwent CLT and survived over 10 years were revised. The international validated questionnaire Short-Form 36 was employed to assess the quality of life.

Testosterone changes in patients with liver cirrhosis before and after orthotopic liver transplantation and its correlation with MELD.

Context: Hypogonadism is a common clinical situation in male patients with liver cirrhosis.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of orthotopic liver transplantation on testosterone, free testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin in male with advanced liver disease and also to determine the relationship of these changes with Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score.

Methods: In a prospective study, serum levels of testosterone, free testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin of 30 male adult patients with end-stage liver disease were measured 2 to 4 hours before and 6 months after orthotopic liver transplantation.

Donor complications including the report of one death in right-lobe living-donor liver transplantation.

Background/aims: Our objective is to assess donor complications in all right hepatic lobe living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) at our center.

Methods: Of a total of 352 liver transplantations performed, 60 were right-lobe LDLT. Most donors (88.

[Study of biliary anatomy in living related liver transplantation].

Background: Anatomic variations of the biliary tree are frequent and increase complications after liver transplantation.

Aim: To describe the anatomy of the bile ducts of donors and recipients of living related liver transplantation.

Methods: From March 1998 to September 2002, the study was retrospective (23 transplantations).

[Sexual function in males undergoing liver transplantation].

Background: Sexual dysfunction is very common in liver transplantation candidates. Our objective is to determine the sexual life quality of males before and after liver transplantation.

Methods: Questionnaire was sent to 56 males over 18 years of age with at least six-month survival after orthotopic liver transplantation.

Oral glutamine does not prevent bacterial translocation in rats subjected to intestinal obstruction and Escherichia coli challenge but reduces systemic bacteria spread.

Objective: We investigated whether oral glutamine prevents bacterial translocation.

Methods: Male Wistar rats were fed with isocaloric and isoproteic standard rat chow and randomly assigned to receive glutamine (GLN) or glycine administered through an orogastric tube at 1.5 g.