Malaria after living donor liver transplantation: report of two cases.

Background: Infectious complications are common during the postoperative course of a liver transplant recipient. Malaria, however, is a rare complication in such a setting.

Method: We report post-transplantation malaria causing elevation of liver enzymes in two recipients.

Adult living donor liver transplantation in Singapore: the Asian centre for liver diseases and transplantation experience.

Introduction: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has progressed dramatically in Asia due to the scarcity of cadaver donors and is increasingly performed in Singapore. The authors present their experience with adult LDLT.

Materials And Methods: Adult LDLTs performed at the Asian Centre for Liver Diseases and Transplantation, Singapore from 20 April 2002 until 20 March 2006 were reviewed.

Long term outcome and prognostic factors for large hepatocellular carcinoma (10 cm or more) after surgical resection.

Background: Surgical resection is the standard treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the role of surgery in treatment of large tumors (10 cm or more) is controversial. We have analyzed, in a single centre, the long-term outcome associated with surgical resection in patients with such large tumors.

Acute myocardial infarction after live donor liver surgery.

Acute myocardial infarction is a tedious risk inherent in all major surgeries. Preoperative assessment has been directed mainly to assess its risk because it carries with it a very high mortality. Living donor liver transplantation has been subject to inquest not only because of the morbidity risk but also because of the mortality risk it carries to the live donor.