Effect of airplane transport of donor livers on post-liver transplantation survival.

Aim: To evaluate the effect of long haul airplane transport of donor livers on post-transplant outcomes.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of patients who received a liver transplantation was performed in Perth, Australia from 1992 to 2012. Donor and recipient characteristics information were extracted from Western Australian liver transplantation service database.

A risk score system to preoperatively predict TNM stages in gastric cancer.

Background: To improve the estimation of tumor status and facilitate the stage-dependent treatment planning, we developed a reliable and easy-to-use risk score for prediction of tumor-node-metastasis stages in gastric cancer.

Methods: Clinicopathological data were collected prospectively from 108 curatively resected patients with gastric cancer. The risk score was established on the basis of independent predictive factors for tumor stages, and its performance was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.