Items tagged “liver transplantation”

The MELD score (Model for End-stage Liver Disease) is a classification used to grade liver dysfunction in preparation for liver transplantation. The score has prognostic value in terms of three month mortality and certain complications. The components of the score are: serum creatinine (mg/dl)...

Hepatocellular carcinoma staging classifications supersede the typical TNM staging system seen in most other epithelial cancers, as the TNM staging system has been found to not be as prognostically useful for stratification of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Several substitute staging sy...

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is the unified transplantation network in the United States and runs under the administration of United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). OPTN classification is an imaging policy of UNOS to determine the eligibility and priority for liver tran...

CT liver volumetry in living donor liver transplantation is essential imaging studies in preoperative assessment. Liver volumetry is performed for the donor liver to calculate the graft volume and remnant liver volume. Preoperative measurement of liver volume is important to avoid graft mismatc...

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a lengthy and complex operation in which lobe or segment from the potential donor is resected and transplanted into the recipient patient after excision of the diseased liver Techniques Adults The most common technique is right hemihepatectomy, wit...

Small for size syndrome (SFSS) is a clinical syndrome caused by the transplantation of a liver graft that is too small for a recipient. It occurs when the graft to recipient weight ratio (GRWR) is less than 0.8% or a graft volume to standard liver volume ratio (GV/SLV) is less than 35%. Clinica...

Ischemic type biliary lesions (ITBL) is a term used to describe non-anastomotic intra- or extrahepatic bile duct strictures after primarily successful liver transplantation, when there is no evidence of perfusion restriction or other cause of bile duct damage (i.e organ rejection or recurrence o...