Publications by authors named "Marie-France Hans"
Article Synopsis
- Heart transplantation is the primary treatment for end-stage heart diseases, with a pressing need to increase the availability of donor hearts, especially from those who die from circulatory death (DCD).
- The study reviewed data from 2006 to 2011 to assess the viability of using DCD hearts, finding that only 11% of DCD donors met the criteria for heart donation due to strict ischemic time limits.
- If successfully implemented, DCD heart transplants could represent a 15% increase in available heart transplants and potentially reduce waiting list deaths by 40%.
Two-stage liver transplantation, i.e. salvage emergent total hepatectomy with prolonged anhepatic state, and subsequent liver transplantation, has been described as a life-saving procedure in selected cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate the long-term results of liver transplantation (LT) for non-acetaminophen fulminant hepatic failure (FHF).
Methods: Over a 20-year period, 29 FHF patients underwent cadaveric whole LT. Most frequent causes of FHF were hepatitis B virus and drug-related (not acetaminophen) liver failure.