Publications by authors named "Makoto Uranaka"
Background: Acute liver failure (ALF) is a component of multisystem organ failure that causes severe liver dysfunction in patients without underlying chronic liver disease. The patients with ALF are prone to have infections, including bacteremia. However, studies of the infectious impact for post liver transplantation (LT) in pediatric ALF are limited.
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- Immediate extubation (IE) after liver transplantation (LT) is now common in pediatric patients, but no established selection criteria exist for its use, prompting the development of new protocols.
- A retrospective study analyzed LT cases from 2016-2020 to compare outcomes between immediate extubation (IE) and non-immediate extubation (NIE) patients, noting a total of 81 IE and 185 NIE cases.
- The results showed that all patients in the IE group were successfully extubated without re-intubation, while a significant number of delayed NIE patients required tracheostomies, indicating that earlier extubation is safer.