2010
Short-Term Cardiac and Noncardiac Mortality Following Liver Transplantation
Eleid MF, Hurst RT, Vargas HE, Rakela J, Mulligan DC, Appleton CP. Short-Term Cardiac and Noncardiac Mortality Following Liver Transplantation. Journal Of Transplantation 2010, 2010: 910165. PMID: 20814597, PMCID: PMC2931376, DOI: 10.1155/2010/910165.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAcute cardiac eventsLiver transplantationCardiac eventsCardiac deathMonths of LTNew-onset heart failureConsecutive LT patientsFollowing Liver TransplantationPrimary cardiac eventsAdverse cardiac eventsOnset heart failureMonths postoperative periodNon-cardiac eventsCause of mortalityLT patientsPostoperative periodSurgical complicationsHeart failureMedical complicationsScreening recommendationsIntraoperative eventsMyocardial infarctionTotal deathsPatientsScreening strategy
2004
Hepatitis C Virus Infection with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Not A Controversial Indication for Liver Transplantation
Rodriguez-Luna H, Balan V, Sharma P, Byrne T, Mulligan D, Rakela J, Vargas HE. Hepatitis C Virus Infection with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Not A Controversial Indication for Liver Transplantation. Transplantation 2004, 78: 580-583. PMID: 15446318, DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000129797.30999.69.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHepatitis C virus infectionC virus infectionHepatocellular carcinomaHCV/Liver transplantationVirus infectionChronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infectionSurvival rateChronic HCV infectionOrthotopic liver transplantationOutcomes of patientsOrgan Sharing dataHCC recurrence rateOverall survival rateLower survival rateHCV groupLT patientsHCV infectionHCC recurrencePatient survivalRecurrence rateUnited NetworkMean agePotential contraindicationsHCC group