Publications by authors named "Valeria Berchtold"
Introduction: Having performed anti-reflux surgery for thirty years, it was important to reexamine our patients in the long term to enlarge the body of evidence concerning classical and extraesophageal symptoms that are differently controlled by Nissen or Toupet fundoplication.
Objectives: We report a cohort of 155 GERD patients who underwent fundoplication within a tailored approach between 1994 and 2000. Changes in the perioperative functional outcome, GERD symptoms, and quality of life are being analyzed 10 and 20 years after the operation.
Prevalence, management and efficacy of treatment in portal vein obstruction after paediatric liver transplantation: protocol of the retrospective international multicentre PORTAL registry.
BMJ Open
July 2023
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates portal vein obstruction (PVO) in pediatric liver transplant patients, focusing on its prevalence, treatment practices, and outcomes through a global collaboration of 25 medical centers.
- - It utilizes a registry to gather data from patients diagnosed with PVO between 2001 and 2021, aiming to measure factors like treatment success and complications following interventions.
- - Approved by an ethics board, the study plans to share findings in academic journals and conferences, contributing to the understanding of PVO management post-liver transplantation.
Background: Progressive Familial Intrahepatic cholestasis type I (PFIC1) is a rare congenital hepatopathy causing cholestasis with progressive liver disease. Surgical interruption of the enterohepatic circulation, e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Early biliary complications (EBC) constitute a burden after pediatric liver transplantation frequently requiring immediate therapy. We aimed to assess the impact of EBC on short- and long-term patient and graft survival as well as post-transplant morbidity.
Methods: We analyzed 121 pediatric liver transplantations performed between 1984 and 2019 at the Medical University of Innsbruck for the occurrence of early (<90 days) biliary complications and investigated the influence of EBC on patient and graft survival.
Background: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has become a clinically established tool to preserve livers in a near-physiological environment. However, little is known about the predictive value of perfusate parameters toward the outcomes after transplantation.
Methods: Fifty-five consecutive NMP livers between 2018 and 2019 were included.
Between 2000 and 2014, five patients received bilateral hand (n = 3), bilateral forearm (n = 1), and unilateral hand (n = 1) transplants at the Innsbruck Medical University Hospital. We provide a comprehensive report of the long-term results at 20 years. During the 6-20 years follow-up, 43 rejection episodes were recorded in total.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDealing With Liver Transplantation during Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Normothermic Machine Perfusion Enables for Donor, Organ, and Recipient Assessment: A Case Report.
Transplant Proc
November 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed life on a global scale. The numbers of transplantations have plummeted as a result of fear of disease transmission, recipient coronavirus disease 2019 infection, priority shift, and resource limitations. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) complicates transplantation because donor testing, (re)allocation of limited resources, and recipient testing may exceed permissible ischemia times.
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- * The study involved analyzing 347 kidney transplants, matching 103 cases each of HMP and SCS based on several criteria including cold ischemia time and donor characteristics.
- * Results showed that HMP reduced delayed graft function (DGF) rates significantly compared to SCS (31.1% vs 64.1%), which is crucial since DGF is linked to lower graft survival rates and increased risk of graft failure.
Donor cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CACPR) has been considered critically because of concerns over hypoperfusion and mechanical trauma to the donor organs. We retrospectively analyzed 371 first simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants performed at the Medical University of Innsbruck between 1997 and 2017. We evaluated short- and long-term outcomes from recipients of organs from donors with and without a history of CACPR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recent findings on the pathogenesis of frontal migraine headache support, besides a central vasogenic cause, an alternative peripheral mechanism involving compressed craniofacial nerves. This is further supported by the efficiency of botulinum toxin injections as a new treatment option in frontal migraine headache patients.
Methods: The supraorbital regions of 22 alcohol-glycerine-embalmed facial halves of both sexes were dissected.