Publications by authors named "Natalia Zambudio Carroll"
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- * Conducted between March 2017 and August 2023, the research included ICG clearance tests on 71 DBDs, finding that ICG-PDR was the sole independent factor linked to graft rejection, establishing a critical cut-off point at 13.5%/min.
- * The findings were validated with an external group of 17 donors, suggesting that the ICG clearance test can serve as an effective screening method
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- * Conducted between June 2019 and August 2020, the retrospective analysis involved 40 hospitals, with insights derived from over 2,200 liver surgeries, including 1350 for colorectal metastases, of which 150 utilized the liver-first strategy.
- * Findings revealed no significant differences in surgical outcomes between hospitals performing fewer than 50 versus those performing 50 or more liver surgeries per year, prompting further research into optimal candidate selection for this treatment approach.
Background: Textbook outcome is a valuable tool for assessing surgical outcomes. The aim of this study was to analyse textbook-outcome rates in the prospective Spanish National Registry of the Liver-First Approach (RENACI Project) and the factors influencing textbook-outcome achievement. Additionally, a model for assessing a procedure-specific textbook outcome for the liver-first approach was proposed.
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- The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of D-MELD and BAR scores in predicting outcomes for patients who underwent liver transplants, particularly focusing on long-term survival rates.
- Researchers analyzed data from 336 patients over a 10-year period, using statistical methods to assess the predictive power of these scores for various survival milestones.
- Results showed that neither D-MELD nor BAR scores significantly predicted 5-year patient and graft survival, prompting a suggestion for the development of better scoring systems for transplant evaluation.
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- Cholangiocarcinoma is a serious liver cancer with a low survival rate, and surgery is currently the only treatment option that can cure it.
- Liver transplantation (LT) is recognized as the best treatment for another type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, but there's potential for LT to help patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCC).
- Research from a center revealed a case of successful incidental LT in an iCC patient with a 10-year survival, suggesting that updates to LT criteria could improve treatment options as donor availability increases.
Liver grafts from donors after cardiac death (DCD) involve a risk of failure owing to warm ischemia, among other factors. To minimize this important issue, new systems like normothermic regional perfusion have arisen. We report an observational and unicentric study focused on the results of liver transplantation after DCD, performing normothermic regional perfusion using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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