Liver transplantation in the Intensive Care Unit: twenty years experience in a center medium income on Peru.

Unlabelled: Liver transplantation is the major treatment for end-stage liver disease. Postoperative care is a great challenge to reduce morbidity and mortality in patients. In this sense, management in the liver ICU allows hemodynamic management, coagulation monitoring, renal support, electrolyte disturbances, respiratory support and early weaning from mechanical ventilation and evaluation of the liver graft.

[Primary non function of hepatic allograft: 18 years experience of Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital - EsSalud].

Introduction: The primary nonfunction of the graft (PNF) after liver transplantation is acute graft failure, in the absence of some causal factor, such as acute thrombosis of the hepatic artery or portal vein.

Objectives: Describe the perioperative characteristics of Liver transplant patients who presented NFPI in the Transplant Department of the Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen Hospital.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective, descriptive and cross-sectional study.

[Portal vein thrombosis in patients undergoing to liver transplantation].

Introduction: Portal venous thrombosis (PVT) is common in patients with liver cirrhosis, undergoing liver transplantation (LT); in our setting, this is the first publication with an emphasis on results and surgical strategies.

Objective: Was to review the case history of the Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital, determine characteristics, types of PVT and surgical management.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed patients undergoing LT who presented PVT between March 2000 and Jun 2018.

[Hepatopulmonar syndrome and liver transplantation: experience in the transplantation department of the Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital - EsSalud].

Introduction: Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a serious complication of liver disease, which is characterized by the presence of intrapulmonary vasodilation and progressive hypoxemia. Liver transplantation is the only effective treatment.

Objective: To show our results of patients with hepatopulmonary syndrome undergoing liver transplantation.

[Liver transplant and hepatocellular carcinoma in Peru: outcome after 15 years in the transplant department of the Guillermo Almenara Hospital - EsSalud].

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a neoplasm with significant incidence and prevalence in the world. In large percentage it originates from a cirrhotic liver. Liver transplantation under special conditions is effective in the simultaneous treatment of both conditions.

[Autoimmune hepatitis recurrence after liver transplantation: 15 years experience in Peru].

Introduction: The recurrence of autoimmune hepatitis (HAI) following liver transplantation occurs between 8-68%. In our experience, autoimmune liver diseases are a major indication of liver transplantation.

Objective: To determine the recurrence of autoimmune hepatitis in 15 years of experience and to evaluate the risk factors associated with the recurrence of HAI.

[10 years of liver transplantation in Peru].

The article reviews the experience in 10 years of hepatic transplants performed by The Transplant Department of the National Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen (HNGAI), describing the history, surgical outcomes in adults and children, retransplantation, combined liver-kidney transplants, complications in 72 transplants performed at the time of submission of the article.