Publications by authors named "Marisa P Schwab"
Article Synopsis
- Opioids are not usually used much in people waiting for a liver transplant because they can be risky.
- A study looked at liver transplant patients from 2012 to 2019 to see how using opioids might affect survival after surgery.
- The results showed that people with opioid prescriptions had a much higher chance of dying after getting their transplant compared to those who didn't use opioids.
Background: The use of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for primary liver transplantation (LT) may quell concerns about allocating deceased donor organs if the need for retransplantation (re-LT) arises because the primary LT did not draw from the limited organ pool. However, outcomes of re-LT after LDLT are poorly studied. The purpose of this study was to analyze the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study (A2ALL) data to report outcomes of re-LT after LDLT, with a focus on long-term survival after re-LT.
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