Biography
Roberts is one of the few surgeons in the U.S. who has extensive experience in performing the Rex shunt – a procedure that restores normal blood flow to the liver – in children and adults. He also has spearheaded an effort to expand the use of living donors for liver transplantation, one of his many projects to make more organs available.
Roberts earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Diego and completed a surgical residency at the University of Washington. He also served as a postdoctoral fellow in transplantation in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Roberts joined UCSF Medical Center in 1988. In addition to his leadership of the transplant service, he teaches medical students and supervises the training of surgical residents.
Roberts has won numerous awards and has received grants from the National Institutes of Health for his research. He has produced nearly 170 papers on topics that include organ transplant rejection, immunogenicity (ability of a substance to provoke an immune response) and immunosuppression (intentionally subduing immune response to lower the chance of organ rejection).
Roberts speaks nationally on transplant issues. He is a fellow of the American Surgical Association and a member of many professional organizations.
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Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California, San Francisco | Residency |
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery, 1988, renewed 2006
Clinical Expertise
Acute Liver Failure
Bile Duct Injuries
Bile Duct Strictures
Bile Duct Cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma)
Liver Cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma)
Choledochal Cyst Disease
Complex Cancer Resections
Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant
Fulminant Hepatic Failure
Infections Post-Transplant
Kidney Transplant
Liver Resection
Liver Transplant
Living Donor Liver Transplant
Living Donor Kidney Transplant
Pediatric Liver Transplant
Pediatric Kidney Transplant
Portal Hypertension
Rex Shunt or Meso-portal Shunt
Surgical Shunts
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Grants and Funding
- TRANSPLANTATION AND HEPATOTOXINS FOR LIVER CANCER | NIH | 1993-01-01 - 1997-12-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
Research Interests
- Ethical Issues in Transplantation
- Organ Allocation
- Cost of Transplantation
- Immunosuppression
Publications
- The Medical Costs of Determining Eligibility and Waiting for a Kidney Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Successful living donor liver transplant from donor with false-positive human immunodeficiency virus test in recipient without human immunodeficiency virus.| | View in PubMed
- Rate of Deceased Kidney Donation From Potential In-Hospital Deaths in the US, 2003-2021.| | View in PubMed
- Report From a Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Future of Living Kidney Donor Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Pretransplantation coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination requirements: A matched case-control study of factors associated with waitlist inactivation.| | View in PubMed
- Characterizing the risk of human leukocyte antigen-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation in older recipients.| | View in PubMed
- DCD liver transplant in patients with a MELD over 35.| | View in PubMed
- Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Within and Outside Traditional Selection Criteria: A Multicentric North American Experience.| | View in PubMed
- Real-world implementation of normothermic machine perfusion: A detailed analysis of intraoperative and early postoperative impact.| | View in PubMed
- Comments on Experience With Establishing a Robotic Donor Hepatectomy Program for Pediatric Liver Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Steroid Avoidance After Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant: A Cohort Analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Corrigendum to 'Assessment of long-term outcomes post living liver donation highlights the importance of scientific integrity when presenting transplant registry data' [American Journal of Transplantation. Volume 22, Issue 6, March 2023, Pages 1519-1522].| | View in PubMed
- Living donor liver transplant candidate and donor selection and engagement: Meeting report from the living donor liver transplant consensus conference.| | View in PubMed
- Influence of surgical technique in donor hepatectomy on immediate and short-term living donor outcomes - A systematic review of the literature, meta-analysis, and expert panel recommendations.| | View in PubMed
- Editorial: Optimizing Outcomes for Children Requires Ensuring Access to Living: Donor and Split Liver Transplants.| | View in PubMed
- Projecting the Economic Impact of Compensating Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cost-Benefit Analysis Demonstrates Substantial Patient and Societal Gains.| | View in PubMed
- Nodular Regenerative Hyperplasia After Liver Transplant; It's All in the Presentation.| | View in PubMed
- Prefusion F Protein-Based Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunization in Pregnancy.| | View in PubMed
- Assessment of long-term outcomes post living liver donation highlights the importance of scientific integrity when presenting transplant registry data.| | View in PubMed
- Consent to organ offers from public health service "Increased Risk" donors decreases time to transplant and waitlist mortality.| | View in PubMed
- Trends in Cost Attributable to Kidney Transplantation Evaluation and Waiting List Management in the United States, 2012-2017.| | View in PubMed
- The use of nondirected donor organs in living donor liver transplantation: Perspectives and guidance.| | View in PubMed
- Advantages and Limitations of Clinical Scores for Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Cost Structures of US Organ Procurement Organizations.| | View in PubMed
- Liver transplant in children and adults with cystic fibrosis: Impact of growth failure and nutritional status.| | View in PubMed
- With the Proven Tenacity of Waitlist Mortality, Shouldn't We Resist the Urge to Make Mountains Out of Survival Statistic Molehills?| | View in PubMed
- Retransplantation After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Data from the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.| | View in PubMed
- Estimated impact of novel coronavirus-19 and transplant center inactivity on end-stage renal disease-related patient mortality in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- The organ procurement costs of expanding deceased donor organ acceptance criteria: Evidence from a cost function model.| | View in PubMed
- Non-operative management of biliary complications after Liver Transplantation in pediatric patients: A 30-year experience.| | View in PubMed
- Current status of left lobe adult to adult living donor liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Live Donor Liver Transplantation in the United States: Impact of Share 35 on Live Donor Utilization.| | View in PubMed
- Emergency general surgery utilization and disparities during COVID-19: an interrupted time-series analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Delayed graft function and acute rejection following HLA-incompatible living donor kidney transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- A world-wide survey on kidney transplantation practices in breast cancer survivors: The need for new management guidelines.| | View in PubMed
- Center-level Variation in HLA-incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- Setting rules for the sandbox: A response to "Successfully sharing the sandbox: A perspective on combined DCD liver and heart donor procurement".| | View in PubMed
- Expanding living donor liver transplantation: Report of first US living donor liver transplant chain.| | View in PubMed
- Reducing the Shortage of Transplant Kidneys: A Lost Opportunity for the US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).| | View in PubMed
- Opioid use prior to liver transplant is associated with increased risk of death after transplant.| | View in PubMed
- A novel waitlist dropout score for hepatocellular carcinoma - identifying a threshold that predicts worse post-transplant survival.| | View in PubMed
- Contemporary Management of Hepatic Cyst Disease: Techniques and Outcomes at a Tertiary Hepatobiliary Center.| | View in PubMed
- Consensus-based perioperative protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Post-operative assessment in patients after liver transplantation: imaging parameters associated with 1-year graft failure.| | View in PubMed
- A Virtual Crossmatch-based Strategy Facilitates Sharing of Deceased Donor Kidneys for Highly Sensitized Recipients.| | View in PubMed
- Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Working Group Report from the ILTS Transplant Oncology Consensus Conference.| | View in PubMed
- Living Donor Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Liver Disease: Data from the Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study.| | View in PubMed
- Overdilation of a 6-mm Self-Expanding Stent with a 10-mm Balloon-Expandable Stent Graft Preserves Failing Meso-Rex Bypass.| | View in PubMed
- The Authors' Reply: Biliary Bicarbonate, pH, and Glucose Are Suitable Biomarkers of Biliary Viability During Ex Situ Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Human Donor Livers.| | View in PubMed
- Split liver transplantation is utilized infrequently and concentrated at few transplant centers in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- The cost of procuring deceased donor kidneys: Evidence from OPO cost reports 2013-2017.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) growth failure thresholds on mortality among pediatric liver transplant candidates.| | View in PubMed
- Removing Disincentives to Kidney Donation: A Quantitative Analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Prospective Phase II trial of drug-eluting bead chemoembolization for liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma and marginal hepatic reserve.| | View in PubMed
- Noninvasive estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance improves portopulmonary hypertension screening in liver transplant candidates.| | View in PubMed
- Bi-organ paired exchange-Sentinel case of a liver-kidney swap.| | View in PubMed
- Predictors of low risk for dropout from the liver transplant waiting list for hepatocellular carcinoma in long wait time regions: Implications for organ allocation.| | View in PubMed
- Split Liver Transplantation and Pediatric Waitlist Mortality in the United States: Potential for Improvement.| | View in PubMed
- Alpha-Fetoprotein Decrease from > 1,000 to < 500Â ng/mL in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Leads to Improved Posttransplant Outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- Distinguishing Tumor From Bland Portal Vein Thrombus in Liver Transplant Candidates With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: the A-VENA Criteria.| | View in PubMed
- Preoperative Autologous Blood Collection in Adult Living Liver Donors: Are We Wasting Donor Blood and Increasing Exposure to Risk?| | View in PubMed
- The mRECIST Classification Provides Insight into Tumor Biology for Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Awaiting Liver Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Should Patients With NAFLD/NASH Be Surveyed for HCC?| | View in PubMed
- Would government compensation of living kidney donors exploit the poor? An empirical analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Increasing Liver Transplantation Wait-List Dropout for Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Widening Geographical Disparities: Implications for Organ Allocation.| | View in PubMed
- Predictors of Ultrasound Failure to Detect Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Alpha-Fetoprotein Slope >7.5 ng/mL per Month Predicts Microvascular Invasion and Tumor Recurrence After Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Reply.| | View in PubMed
- The Authors' Reply.| | View in PubMed
- Use of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA-positive donor in a treated HCV RNA-negative liver transplant recipient.| | View in PubMed
- A2 liver transplantation across the ABO barrier: Increasing options in the donor pool?| | View in PubMed
- Validation of the prognostic power of the RETREAT score for hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence using the UNOS database.| | View in PubMed
- Excellent Outcomes of Liver Transplantation Following Down-Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma to Within Milan Criteria: A Multicenter Study.| | View in PubMed
- A Formula to Calculate Standard Liver Volume Using Thoracoabdominal Circumference.| | View in PubMed
- Misdiagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients receiving no local-regional therapy prior to liver transplant: An analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network explant pathology form.| | View in PubMed
- Hospital readmissions following HLA-incompatible live donor kidney transplantation: A multi-center study.| | View in PubMed
- Short Course of Postoperative Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin Plus Antivirals Prevents Reinfection of Liver Transplant Recipients.| | View in PubMed
- Wait Time of Less Than 6 and Greater Than 18 Months Predicts Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplantation: Proposing a Wait Time "Sweet Spot".| | View in PubMed
- Biases in the reporting of hepatocellular carcinoma tumor sizes on the liver transplant waiting list.| | View in PubMed
- Development of a novel frailty index to predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease.| | View in PubMed
- Liver transplantation recipients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis have lower risk hepatocellular carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Race/ethnicity is associated with ABO-nonidentical liver transplantation in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Cost-Effectiveness of Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment in Hepatitis C-Infected Liver Transplant Candidates With Compensated Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Validation of a Risk Estimation of Tumor Recurrence After Transplant (RETREAT) Score for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplant.| | View in PubMed
- 3D T2-weighted and Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced 3D T1-weighted MR cholangiography for evaluation of biliary anatomy in living liver donors.| | View in PubMed
- Disability in patients with end-stage liver disease: Results from the functional assessment in liver transplantation study.| | View in PubMed
- Donor Liver Small Droplet Macrovesicular Steatosis Is Associated With Increased Risk for Recipient Allograft Rejection.| | View in PubMed
- Predicting Outcomes on the Liver Transplant Waiting List in the United States: Accounting for Large Regional Variation in Organ Availability and Priority Allocation Points.| | View in PubMed
- We Need to Take the Next Step.| | View in PubMed
- Biliary complications following living donor hepatectomy.| | View in PubMed
- Patterns of Early Allograft Dysfunction in Adult Live Donor Liver Transplantation: The A2ALL Experience.| | View in PubMed
- Increased hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence in women compared to men with high alpha fetoprotein at liver transplant.| | View in PubMed
- Nonstandard Exception Requests Impact Outcomes for Pediatric Liver Transplant Candidates.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of Graft Selection on Donor and Recipient Outcomes After Living Donor Liver Transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Adult living donor liver imaging.| | View in PubMed
- Lack of benefits of mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor in patients transplanted for hepatocellular carcinoma: Is this the end of the story?| | View in PubMed
- ABO-Nonidentical Liver Transplantation in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Response to clinical assessments of health status as a potential marker to identify patients who are too sick to undergo transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors.| | View in PubMed
- Utilization of Deceased Donor Kidneys to Initiate Living Donor Chains.| | View in PubMed
- The Cost of Fairness.| | View in PubMed
- Intention to treat outcome of T1 hepatocellular carcinoma with the "wait and not ablate" approach until meeting T2 criteria for liver transplant listing.| | View in PubMed
- Minimal Transplant Survival Benefit for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Is it Real or an Overestimation of Waitlist Life Expectancy?| | View in PubMed
- Impact of a quality improvement project on deceased organ donor management.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes for liver transplant candidates listed with low model for end-stage liver disease score.| | View in PubMed
- Transplantation: Allocation of liver transplants-a road to consensus.| | View in PubMed
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Government Compensation of Kidney Donors.| | View in PubMed
- The Evolution of Organ Allocation for Liver Transplantation: Tackling Geographic Disparity Through Broader Sharing.| | View in PubMed
- Therapeutic Hypothermia in Deceased Organ Donors and Kidney-Graft Function.| | View in PubMed
- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: analysis of factors predicting outcome in 1074 patients in OPTN Region 5.| | View in PubMed
- Downstaging of hepatocellular cancer before liver transplant: long-term outcome compared to tumors within Milan criteria.| | View in PubMed
- Clinician assessments of health status predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Potential role of the donor in hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Evaluating the validity of model for end-stage liver disease exception points for hepatocellular carcinoma patients with multiple nodules <2Â cm.| | View in PubMed
- Does center-specific reporting limit innovation.| | View in PubMed
- Trans-radial versus trans-femoral access in patients with end-stage liver disease undergoing cardiac catheterization.| | View in PubMed
- Hepatic artery and biliary complications in liver transplant recipients undergoing pretransplant transarterial chemoembolization.| | View in PubMed
- Response to letter to the editors.| | View in PubMed
- Alpha-fetoprotein level > 1000 ng/mL as an exclusion criterion for liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma meeting the Milan criteria.| | View in PubMed
- Time to transplantation as a predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Quantifying the risk of incompatible kidney transplantation: a multicenter study.| | View in PubMed
- Multiple listings as a reflection of geographic disparity in liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes after liver transplantation for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and a low risk of dropout from the transplant waiting list.| | View in PubMed
- Author response: reducing infection transmission in solid organ transplantation through donor nucleic acid testing: a cost-effectiveness analysis.| | View in PubMed
- De novo sirolimus and reduced-dose tacrolimus versus standard-dose tacrolimus after liver transplantation: the 2000-2003 phase II prospective randomized trial.| | View in PubMed
- Left versus right lobe liver donation.| | View in PubMed
- Identification of liver transplant candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma and a very low dropout risk: implications for the current organ allocation policy.| | View in PubMed
- Pediatric liver transplantation for urea cycle disorders and organic acidemias: United Network for Organ Sharing data for 2002-2012.| | View in PubMed
- Consumerist responses to scarcity of organs for transplant.| | View in PubMed
- Validating posttransplant hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence data in the United Network for Organ Sharing database.| | View in PubMed
- Fatal transplant-associated west nile virus encephalitis and public health investigation-california, 2010.| | View in PubMed
- Decadal analysis of deceased organ donation in Spain and the United States linking an increased donation rate and the utilization of older donors.| | View in PubMed
- Reducing infection transmission in solid organ transplantation through donor nucleic acid testing: a cost-effectiveness analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Calcineurin inhibitor-free mycophenolate mofetil/sirolimus maintenance in liver transplantation: the randomized spare-the-nephron trial.| | View in PubMed
- Determinants of second-order bile duct visualization at CT cholangiography in potential living liver donors.| | View in PubMed
- Ex vivo split-liver transplantation: the true right/left split.| | View in PubMed
- Left hepatectomy versus right hepatectomy for living donor liver transplantation: shifting the risk from the donor to the recipient.| | View in PubMed
- Use of rifabutin for the treatment of a latent tuberculosis infection in a patient after solid organ transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Offer patterns of nationally placed livers by donation service area.| | View in PubMed
- Center competition and outcomes following liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Projected future increase in aging hepatitis C virus-infected liver transplant candidates: a potential effect of hepatocellular carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of outcomes monitoring on innovation and risk in liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Posttransplant metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents after liver transplantation: a systematic review.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of the donor body mass index on the survival of pediatric liver transplant recipients and post-transplant obesity.| | View in PubMed
- An examination of liver offers to candidates on the liver transplant wait-list.| | View in PubMed
- Chain transplantation: initial experience of a large multicenter program.| | View in PubMed
- Risk factors for liver transplant waitlist dropout in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Report of a consensus conference on transplant program quality and surveillance.| | View in PubMed
- Patient, center and geographic characteristics of nationally placed livers.| | View in PubMed
- Use of living donor liver transplantation varies with the availability of deceased donor liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Complete immunosuppression withdrawal and subsequent allograft function among pediatric recipients of parental living donor liver transplants.| | View in PubMed
- A randomized, multicenter study comparing steroid-free immunosuppression and standard immunosuppression for liver transplant recipients with chronic hepatitis C.| | View in PubMed
- Hepatic steatosis at 1 year is an additional predictor of subsequent fibrosis severity in liver transplant recipients with recurrent hepatitis C virus.| | View in PubMed
- Elderly recipients of hepatitis C positive renal allografts can quickly develop liver disease.| | View in PubMed
- Overweight and obesity in pediatric liver transplant recipients: prevalence and predictors before and after transplant, United Network for Organ Sharing Data, 1987-2010.| | View in PubMed
- Multidisciplinary management of hepatocellular carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Living kidney donor follow-up: state-of-the-art and future directions, conference summary and recommendations.| | View in PubMed
- Pretransplant severe hepatic encephalopathy, peritransplant sodium and post-liver transplantation morbidity and mortality.| | View in PubMed
- Liver allocation and distribution: possible next steps.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes with split liver transplantation in 106 recipients: the University of California, San Francisco, experience from 1993 to 2010.| | View in PubMed
- Managing finances of shipping living donor kidneys for donor exchanges.| | View in PubMed
- Do preoperative inflammatory markers impact on outcome after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma?| | View in PubMed
- Hepatitis B virus quasispecies in hepatic and extrahepatic viral reservoirs in liver transplant recipients on prophylactic therapy.| | View in PubMed
- Mixed hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in patients undergoing transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Rex shunt preoperative imaging: diagnostic capability of imaging modalities.| | View in PubMed
- Experience with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy among more than 1000 cases: low complication rates, despite more challenging cases.| | View in PubMed
- Transplanting kidneys without points for HLA-B matching: consequences of the policy change.| | View in PubMed
- Molecular characterization of intrahepatic and extrahepatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) reservoirs in patients on suppressive antiviral therapy.| | View in PubMed
- Image of the month. Portal hypertensive biliopathy.| | View in PubMed
- Cost-effectiveness of screening for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Endovascular closure of a portocaval shunt after left lobe liver transplantation using an Amplatzer muscular ventricular septal occluder device.| | View in PubMed
- Transplant surgery fellow perceptions about training and the ensuing job market-are the right number of surgeons being trained?| | View in PubMed
- Gender differences in liver donor quality are predictive of graft loss.| | View in PubMed
- Transporting live donor kidneys for kidney paired donation: initial national results.| | View in PubMed
- Implementation of vascularized composite allografts in the United States: recommendations from the ASTS VCA Ad Hoc Committee and the Executive Committee.| | View in PubMed
- Multivessel coronary artery disease predicts mortality, length of stay, and pressor requirements after liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes of surgical repair of bile leaks and strictures after adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant.| | View in PubMed
- Comparison of biliary complications in adult living-donor liver transplants performed at two busy transplant centers.| | View in PubMed
- Presentation of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome in patients on calcineurin inhibitors.| | View in PubMed
- Hepatocellular carcinoma: Ablate and wait versus rapid transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: small grafts and hemiportocaval shunts in the prevention of small-for-size syndrome.| | View in PubMed
- Acute kidney injury during liver transplantation as determined by neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin.| | View in PubMed
- Factors influencing liver transplant length of stay at two large-volume transplant centers.| | View in PubMed
- The Declaration of Istanbul: review and commentary by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Ethics Committee and Executive Committee.| | View in PubMed
- Long-term renal function and cardiovascular disease risk in obese kidney donors.| | View in PubMed
- Predictors associated with terminal renal function in deceased organ donors in the intensive care unit.| | View in PubMed
- Safety of cardiac catheterization in patients with end-stage liver disease awaiting liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Transplant tourism to China: the impact on domestic patient-care decisions.| | View in PubMed
- Long-term histological effects of preemptive antiviral therapy in liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C virus infection.| | View in PubMed
- Excellent outcome following down-staging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation: an intention-to-treat analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Long-term outcome of human leukocyte antigen mismatching in liver transplantation: results of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Liver Transplantation Database.| | View in PubMed
- CT cholangiography in potential liver donors: effect of premedication with intravenous morphine on biliary caliber and visualization.| | View in PubMed
- Accuracy of plain abdominal radiographs in the detection of retained surgical needles in the peritoneal cavity.| | View in PubMed
- Increased severity of renal ischemia-reperfusion injury with venous clamping compared to arterial clamping in a rat model.| | View in PubMed
- Central venous pressure monitoring during living right donor hepatectomy.| | View in PubMed
- Predicting biliary complications in right lobe liver transplant recipients according to distance between donor's bile duct and corresponding hepatic artery.| | View in PubMed
- SIR 2006 Annual Meeting Film Panel Case: Budd-Chiari syndrome in a patient with Cogan syndrome.| | View in PubMed
- The use of a micro-bubble contrast agent to allow visualization of the biliary tree.| | View in PubMed
- Ischemia-reperfusion injury is more severe in older versus young rat livers.| | View in PubMed
- De novo malignancies following liver transplantation: a case-control study with long-term follow-up.| | View in PubMed
- Mild hypothermia protects obese rats from fulminant hepatic necrosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion.| | View in PubMed
- Trends over a decade of pediatric liver transplantation in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Warm ischemia-induced alterations in oxidative and inflammatory proteins in hepatic Kupffer cells in rats.| | View in PubMed
- Management of hepatitis C-infected liver transplant recipients at large North American centres: changes in recent years.| | View in PubMed
- A prospective study on downstaging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Ischemic preconditioning improves energy state and transplantation survival in obese Zucker rat livers.| | View in PubMed
- Expanded criteria donor kidney allocation: marked decrease in cold ischemia and delayed graft function at a single center.| | View in PubMed
- Tumor surveillance-what can and should be done? Screening for recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Metabolic profiling of livers and blood from obese Zucker rats.| | View in PubMed
- High incidence of recurrence and hematologic events following liver transplantation for Budd-Chiari syndrome.| | View in PubMed
- Laparoscopic procurement of kidneys with multiple renal arteries is associated with increased ureteral complications in the recipient.| | View in PubMed
- The use of stents for duct-to-duct anastomoses of biliary reconstruction in orthotopic liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Living donor candidates for right hepatic lobe transplantation: evaluation at CT cholangiography--initial experience.| | View in PubMed
- The impact of pre-operative loco-regional therapy on outcome after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.| | View in PubMed
- Mild hypothermia provides significant protection against ischemia/reperfusion injury in livers of obese and lean rats.| | View in PubMed
- Percutaneous salvage of a failing rex shunt.| | View in PubMed
- Applicability, tolerability and efficacy of preemptive antiviral therapy in hepatitis C-infected patients undergoing liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Concordance of second-order portal venous and biliary tract anatomies on MDCT angiography and MDCT cholangiography.| | View in PubMed
- Serum sodium predicts mortality in patients listed for liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: a large single-center experience.| | View in PubMed
- Ethical issues in split versus whole liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Summary report of a national conference: Evolving concepts in liver allocation in the MELD and PELD era. December 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.| | View in PubMed
- The influence of portoenterostomy on transplantation for biliary atresia.| | View in PubMed
- Comparison of outcomes after delayed graft function: sirolimus-based versus other calcineurin-inhibitor sparing induction immunosuppression regimens.| | View in PubMed
- Use of CT cholangiography to evaluate the biliary tract after liver transplantation: initial experience.| | View in PubMed
- Applying expanded criteria to liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: too much too soon, or is now the time?| | View in PubMed
- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: lessons from the first year under the Model of End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) organ allocation policy.| | View in PubMed
- Biliary tract depiction in living potential liver donors: comparison of conventional MR, mangafodipir trisodium-enhanced excretory MR, and multi-detector row CT cholangiography--initial experience.| | View in PubMed
- Influence of graft type on outcomes after pediatric liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- New onset diabetes mellitus after liver transplantation: the critical role of hepatitis C infection.| | View in PubMed
- Effect of changing the priority for HLA matching on the rates and outcomes of kidney transplantation in minority groups.| | View in PubMed
- Improving liver allocation: MELD and PELD.| | View in PubMed
- Prediction of survival after liver retransplantation for late graft failure based on preoperative prognostic scores.| | View in PubMed
- Cost of organ procurement and transplantation network data collection for a large transplant center.| | View in PubMed
- Expanding the donor pool: can the Spanish model work in the United States?| | View in PubMed
- Role of adult living liver donation in patients with hepatocellular cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Kidney and liver transplantation in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients: a pilot safety and efficacy study.| | View in PubMed
- CD69 expression on peripheral CD8 T cells correlates with acute rejection in renal transplant recipients.| | View in PubMed
- A follow-up analysis of the pattern and predictors of dropout from the waiting list for liver transplantation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: implications for the current organ allocation policy.| | View in PubMed
- Frequent salvage of ruptured renal allografts: a large single center experience.| | View in PubMed
- Sirolimus prolongs recovery from delayed graft function after cadaveric renal transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Liver and intestine transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Pharmacokinetics of cyclosporine pre- and post-liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Intraoperative hemodynamics and liver function in adult-to-adult living liver donors.| | View in PubMed
- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: analysis of survival according to the intention-to-treat principle and dropout from the waiting list.| | View in PubMed
- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: comparison of the proposed UCSF criteria with the Milan criteria and the Pittsburgh modified TNM criteria.| | View in PubMed
- Report of the Crystal City meeting to maximize the use of organs recovered from the cadaver donor.| | View in PubMed
- Allograft rejection in pediatric liver transplantation: Comparison between cadaveric and living related donors.| | View in PubMed
- Targeted gene therapy with CD40Ig to induce long-term acceptance of liver allografts.| | View in PubMed
- Donor health assessment after living-donor liver transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Prioritization of patients with liver cancer within the MELD system.| | View in PubMed