[Orthotopic uterus transplantation. Sheep model experiment, Cali (Colombia)].

Objective: It has been recommended that professionals who are planning to perform uterine transplantation should first carry out animal experiments. This paper describes the procedure for uterine transplant in sheep, as well as short and medium-term results.

Methods: Experimental surgery study in sheep subjected to uterine explantation and transplant.

Adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation: The experience of the Université catholique de Louvain.

Background: Liver transplantation is the treatment for end-stage liver diseases and well-selected malignancies. The allograft shortage may be alleviated with living donation. The initial UCLouvain experience of adult living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is presented.

Delta-slope of alpha-fetoprotein improves the ability to select liver transplant patients with hepatocellular cancer.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of different alpha-foetoprotein (AFP) determinations in order to propose a new model aimed at predicting intention-to-treat (ITT) death and post- liver transplantation (LT) recurrence in a cohort of patients with hepatocellular cancer (HCC) enlisted for LT.

Background: Recent studies have increasingly focused on the role of AFP as a useful tool for patient selection in the setting of LT for HCC. However, no definitive AFP model has been definitively validated.

Neutrophil and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio as new predictors of dropout and recurrence after liver transplantation for hepatocellular cancer.

There is increasing evidence that systemic inflammation markers like neutrophil (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratios (PLR) may play a role in the outcome of hepatocellular cancer (HCC). Between January 1994 and March 2012, 181 patients with HCC were registered on the transplant waiting list: 35 (19.3%) patients dropped out during the waiting period and 146 (80.