Values of Donor Serum Lipids and Calcium in Predicting Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Study.

Objective: Delayed graft function (DGF) and early graft loss of renal grafts are determined by the quality of the kidneys from the deceased donor. As "non-traditional" risk factors, serum biomarkers of donors, such as lipids and electrolytes, have drawn increasing attention due to their effects on the postoperative outcomes of renal grafts. This study aimed to examine the value of these serum biomarkers for prediction of renal graft function.

Role of selected criteria and preventive chemotherapy in tumor recurrence after liver transplantation.

Background: Long-term survival after liver transplantation (LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients remains poor because of tumor recurrence. To improve the prognosis of HCC patients after LT, we aimed to identify different transplantation criteria and risk factors related to tumor recurrence and evaluate the effect of preventive chemotherapy in a single center.

Methods: In total, data on 20 variables and the survival of 199 patients with primary HCC who underwent LT between 2005 and 2015 were included for analysis.

Updated Genetic Testing of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 in a Chinese Population: Results from a Single Center Study and a Systematic Review.

Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) is a rare but devastating autosomal recessive inherited disease caused by mutations in gene AGXT. Pathogenic mutations of AGXT were mostly reported in Caucasian but infrequently in Asian, especially in Chinese. To update the genotypes of PH1 in the Chinese population, we collected and identified 7 Chinese probands with PH1 from 2013 to 2017 in our center, five of whom had delayed diagnosis and failed in kidney transplantation.

[Histopathological study of 268 hepatic allograft biopsies].

Objective: To observe the histopathological features of posttransplant complications for hepatic allografts and evaluate their biopsy values.

Methods: From January 1999 to May 2011, a total of 268 percutaneous hepatic allograft biopsies were conducted in 207 recipients and the diagnostic procedures for staining, classification and staging performed according to the Banff schema and Chinese Schema on hepatic allograft rejection.

Results: Among them, there were ischemia/reperfusion injury (n = 26, 9.

[Histopathologic analysis of 1500 renal allograft biopsies].

Objective: To summarize the histopathological features of posttransplant complications for renal allografts and evaluate the biopsy values.

Methods: Between January 1997 and May 2010, a total of 1712 percutaneous renal allograft biopsies were performed in 1500 kidney transplants and diagnostic procedures for staining, classification and staging had been performed according to the Banff 1997 and 2005 Schema.

Results: There were 213 (14.

Combined en bloc liver/pancreas transplantation in two different patients.

Combined en bloc liver/pancreas transplantation (CLPT) was used primarily in the treatment of otherwise non-resectable upper abdominal malignancy. In fact, a more appropriate indication is in patients with liver disease and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Here, we report on two successful cases of CLPT at our hospital.

Early steroid withdrawal after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of early steroid withdrawal on the incidence of rejection, tumor recurrence and complications after liver transplantation for advanced-stage hepatocellular carcinoma.

Methods: Fifty-four patients underwent liver transplantation for advanced-stage hepatocellular carcinoma from April 2003 to June 2005. These cases were divided into a steroid-withdrawal group (group A, n = 28) and a steroid-maintenance group (group B, n = 26).

[Technology and application of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation with modified enteric drainage].

Objective: To report the modified technique and the short-term results of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) with the enteric drainage (ED) of exocrine secretions.

Methods: From June 2000 to August 2006, thirty-eight patients with diabetes complicated with uremia underwent SPK. The pancreas graft was placed intraperitoneally with exocrine secretions drained into the proximal jejunum without Roux-en-Y procedure.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome after liver transplantation: etiology, prevention and management.

Objective: To study the etiology, prevention and management of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) after liver transplantation.

Methods: The clinical data of 104 patients with end-stage liver diseases who had had liver transplantations were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: Seventeen patients (16.