Temporal Trends and Outcomes in Liver Transplantation for Recipients With HIV Infection in Europe and United States.

Background: We evaluated trends and outcomes of liver transplantation (LT) recipients with/without HIV infection.

Methods: LT recipients between 2008 and 2015 from the United Network for Organ Sharing and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and European Liver Transplant Registry were included. Trends and characteristics related to survival among LT recipients with HIV infection were determined.

Re-irradiation of recurrent pediatric ependymoma: modalities and outcomes: a twenty-year survey.

Background: Standard treatment for recurrent ependymomas is not defined. Re- irradiation has been proposed but its modalities and results are still to be explored.

Patients And Methods: From June 1994 to December 2013, 32 pediatric patients with ependymoma were re-irradiated for local (n = 15) or metastatic (n = 17) relapses.

Long survival in a child with a mutated K27M-H3.3 pilocytic astrocytoma.

We report the first case of a child with a H3F3A K27M mutated pilocytic astrocytoma, who presented with a 10 years survival, and underwent spontaneous malignant transformation. The complex tumoral chromosomal rearrangements were consistent for genomic instability and for the histopathological features of malignant transformation into glioblastoma. H3F3A K27M mutations are rarely observed in benign neoplasms and may be associated with an adverse outcome.

Single-port laparoscopy and extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy: about fourteen consecutive cases.

Objective: To report the feasibility and reproducibility of single port extraperitoneal para-aortic lymphadenectomy in locally advanced cervical cancer.

Methods: The same single port was used for the transperitoneal step and the extraperitoneal approach used thereafter (in the absence of peritoneal disease) for the lymphadenectomy. Para-aortic lymphadenectomy was performed via a left-sided extraperitoneal approach.