Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) significantly contributes to the mortality and morbidity rates among pediatric liver transplant (LT) recipients.
Objective: Our study aimed to assess the potential factors contributing to AKI in pediatric LT patients and to analyze the impact of AKI on postoperative mortality and hospitalization duration.
Materials And Methods: About 235 pediatric LT patients under the age of 18 between the years 2015 and 2021 were evaluated retrospectively.
Gaucher disease (GD) is the most frequent lysosomal storage disorder due to biallelic pathogenic variants in GBA gene. Only homozygous D409H variant has been associated with the cardiovascular phenotype which is also known as Gaucher disease type 3c. In this descriptive study, we presented phenotypic heterogeneity and a novel clinical finding among 13 patients with GD type 3c.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurvival was examined from a Turkish liver transplant center of patients with HCC, to identify prognostic factors. Data from 215 patients who underwent predominantly live donor liver transplant for HCC at our institute over 12 years were included in the study and prospectively recorded. They were 152 patients within and 63 patients beyond Milan criteria.
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