Liver transplantation at the Cuban Center for Medical and Surgical Research.
Transplant Proc
; 37(3): 1505-6, 2005 Apr.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15866656
From July 4, 1999, when a liver transplantation program was started in Cuba, to October 2003, 66 procedures had been performed in 60 patients. The most frequent reason was cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C virus (29%), and alcoholic cirrhosis (22%). Two patients received simultaneous liver-kidney transplants. Half of the patients were men. Patient ages ranged from 12 to 62 years; the average surgical time was 6 hours; and cold ischemia time was 4 to 14 hours. The average blood consumption was 2033 mL; 2900 mL of plasma and 8 units of platelets were used in 7 cases. Immunosuppression was mainly cyclosporine (Neoral), mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine, and prednisone. Acute cellular rejections were treated in almost all cases with 3 doses of methylprednisolone. The most frequent complications were biliary (24%), hepatic arterial thrombosis (12%), post-surgical bleeding (10%), acute cellular rejection (24%), and ductopenic rejection (2%). The overall 1-year survival rate was 73.7%.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transplante de Fígado
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe
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Cuba
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Transplant Proc
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Cuba
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos