2 results match your criteria: "University of North Carlina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine[Affiliation]"
Management of Major Injuries to the Bile Duct at a Hepatobiliary Specialty Referral Center.
Am Surg
May 2023
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University of North Carlina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Introduction: Aim is to evaluate geographical and demographic factors influencing management of bile duct injuries occurring during cholecystectomy in a tertiary hepato-pancreato-biliary center in Southeast US.
Methods: All referrals for biliary injuries during cholecystectomy, between Jan 2017 and December 2020 were included.
Results: 19 patients were identified with a median age of 59 (47-65), average BMI of 30.
Changing opportunities for liver transplant for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Clin Transplant
May 2022
Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carlina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Introduction: Aim was to study the early impact of acuity circle-based allocation implementation system on liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients.
Methods: We assessed characteristics of HCC and non-HCC deceased donor orthotopic liver transplants (OLT) in the year before (2/2019-2/2020) and after (3/2020-2/2021) introduction of the acuity circle policy using the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)/United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database.
Results: Total OLTs reduced from 6699 in the preacuity circle era to 6660 in the postacuity circle era (-.