2022
Epidemiology and outcomes of surgical site infections among pediatric liver transplant recipients
Banach DB, Lopez‐Verdugo F, Sanchez‐Garcia J, Tran A, Gomez‐Llerena A, Munoz‐Abraham A, Bertacco A, Valentino PL, Yoo P, Dembry L, Mulligan DC, Ekong UD, Emre SH, Rodriguez‐Davalos M. Epidemiology and outcomes of surgical site infections among pediatric liver transplant recipients. Transplant Infectious Disease 2022, 24: e13941. PMID: 35989545, DOI: 10.1111/tid.13941.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSurgical site infectionLiver transplant recipientsLiver transplantationBiliary complicationsGraft recipientsTransplant recipientsSite infectionRisk factorsOutcomes of SSIPediatric liver transplant recipientsLong-term graftPediatric liver transplantationRetrospective descriptive analysisPrimary endpointHospital daysPatient agePediatric populationPatient survivalSignificant causeComplicationsPatientsRecipientsOutcomesInfectionIncidence
2012
Ureteral stricture formation in laparoscopically procured living donor kidney transplantation.
Tyson MD, Castle EP, Andrews PE, Heilman RL, Moss AA, Mulligan DC, Reddy KS. Ureteral stricture formation in laparoscopically procured living donor kidney transplantation. Canadian Journal Of Urology 2012, 19: 6188-92. PMID: 22512964.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUreteral stricture formationDelayed graft functionDonor kidney transplantationUreteral strictureGraft functionStricture formationUreteral stentsKidney transplantationStricture diseaseMultivariable logistic regression modelUreteral stricture diseaseLogistic regression modelsStricture groupRetrospective reviewProcedural interventionRisk factorsIntraoperative placementStrictureDonor databasePatientsIncidenceStentsTransplantationDiseaseRegression modelsPretransplant Fasting Glucose Predicts New-Onset Diabetes after Liver Transplantation
Carey EJ, Aqel BA, Byrne TJ, Douglas DD, Rakela J, Vargas HE, Moss AA, Mulligan DC, Reddy KS, Chakkera HA. Pretransplant Fasting Glucose Predicts New-Onset Diabetes after Liver Transplantation. Journal Of Transplantation 2012, 2012: 614781. PMID: 22461975, PMCID: PMC3306927, DOI: 10.1155/2012/614781.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLiving-donor transplantsLiver transplant recipientsIncidence of NODATLiver transplantTransplant recipientsRisk factorsNew-onset diabetesLiver transplantationMELD scoreFasting GlucoseDL increasePoor outcomeMean ageNODATOnset diabetesHCVMultivariate analysisTransplantationTransplantFPGCorticosteroidsDiabetesPatientsIncidenceTwofold increase