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