Liver transplantation in adults with acute liver failure: Outcomes from the Argentinean Transplant Registry.

Introduction And Aim: Liver transplantation (LT) for acute liver failure (ALF) still has a high early mortality. We aimed to evaluate changes occurring in recent years and identify risk factors for poor outcomes.

Material And Methods: Data were retrospectively obtained from the Argentinean Transplant Registry from two time periods (1998-2005 and 2006-2016).

Results after the adoption of a MELD/PELD-based liver allocation policy in Argentina.

In July 2005, Argentina switched from a categorical liver allocation system to a MELD/PELD-based policy for patients with CLD. To analyze WL outcomes and survival after LT in children. From January 2000 to December 2010, 923 children were registered.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome: a study of 29 patients.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to retrospectively analyze the electroclinical features, etiology, treatment, and prognosis of 29 patients with Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) with a long-term follow-up.

Methods: Inclusion criteria were a diagnosis of LKS with: (1) acquired aphasia or verbal auditory aphasia; (2) with or without focal seizures, secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures, absences, or atonic seizures.

Results: Mean follow-up was 12 years.

Improved waiting-list outcomes in Argentina after the adoption of a model for end-stage liver disease-based liver allocation policy.

In July 2005, Argentina became the first country after the United States to introduce the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) for organ allocation. In this study, we investigated waiting-list (WL) outcomes (n = 3272) and post-liver transplantation (LT) survival in 2 consecutive periods of 5 years before and after the implementation of a MELD-based allocation policy. Data were obtained from the database of the national institute for organ allocation in Argentina.