Clinical utility of postoperative phosphate recovery profiles to predict liver insufficiency after living donor hepatectomy.

Background: Living donor hepatectomy (LDH) is associated with significant postoperative hypophosphatemia.

Methods: From January 1997 through July 2017, we performed 176 LDH and compared donors who developed liver insufficiency (LI) to those that did not within 30 days of LDH. Using smoothing splines, we constructed a mixed-effects model and assessed receiver operating characteristic curves.

Clinical Significance of Pulmonary Nodules in the Pretransplant Evaluation of Liver Transplant Recipients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Objectives: Pulmonary nodules are common in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who are being evaluated for a possible liver transplant.

Materials And Methods: In this retrospective study, we analyzed the records of liver transplant recipients at our institution with a primary diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma who received transplants between 2000 and 2015. All patients had magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed disease within Milan criteria and a concurrent staging chest computed tomography.