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For example, anticoagulation for recent, significant PE or dual antiplatelet therapy for recent MI, but requiring urgent procedures such as biopsy of ...

In general, for which malignancy would this most commonly be entertained and what patient criteria would make them an optimal candidate?

Would treating underlying cirrhosis/transplant cure the driver of their cardiac dysfunction, and is this reversible? What unique transplant complicati...

Is there such a thing as "too early" referral? How can we best utilize the time and resources of a liver transplant center for such patients?

At what point do you feel comfortable using diuretics or performing a therapeutic paracentesis?

What other patient factors and nuances do you take into consideration in patient selection and use of specific perfusion options (ex: normothermic vs....

For example, what do you do when someone requests aggressive, life-prolonging treatments but then is not receptive to elements of day-to-day care in t...

Do you use TEG or ROTEM? How do you counsel proceduralists on the unique hemostatic profile of patients with cirrhosis?

Patient is undergoing RT and has already started on a GnRH antagonist. If so, how long after their last fraction would be an appropriate wait time?

What clinical, system, and/or social factors play into this decision?

How do factors like the presence of varices, severity of coagulopathy, etc., play into your decision?

Patient with extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma s/p Whipple in 2021 with negative margins and no positive nodes followed by adjuvant chemo with subsequen...

What are you looking for that would impact your management of a patient?

Data are scattered, with some starting concurrent and some starting after SBRT to optimize the priming of the immune system with RT.

What kind of patient would be an ideal recipient of such an organ?

For example, someone needing a higher platelet count for dual antiplatelet agent use after coronary stent placement.

I have several forensic patients who have elevated LFTs and fatty liver on ultrasound, at least in part due to long-term olanzapine use. They are all ...

For example, would you consider alternatives to paracentesis (Denver shunt placement, CART therapy, or permanent tunneled catheters) that might better...


Papers discussed in this category


The New England journal of medicine, 1987-03-05

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2018 Apr

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Dec 31

Journal of viral hepatitis, 2019 Dec 22

Topics in antiviral medicine, 2023 Mar 31

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 2023 Oct 01

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2024 Mar 19

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2023 May 22

Hepatology research : the official journal of the Japan Society of Hepatology, 2025 Jan 15

Investigational new drugs, 2024 Aug 30

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2023 Oct 17

International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 Mar 13

Radiother Oncol, 2017 May

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2012 Apr

The New England journal of medicine, 2021 Mar 04

Archives of internal medicine, 2006 Feb 13

Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology, 2019 Aug 23

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2022 Dec 07

The American journal of gastroenterology, 2024 Jan 26

The American journal of gastroenterology, 2024 Oct 21

Gastroenterology, 2009-09

European journal of endocrinology, 2023 Aug 02

JAMA oncology, 2017-04-01

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2018-05

Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2021 Nov 22

Cardiovascular and interventional radiology, 2024 Jun 10

Drug and alcohol dependence, 2024 Sep 07

JAMA psychiatry, 2025 Apr 01

Gastroenterology, 2018 May 17

The New England journal of medicine, 2012 Aug 23

Medicine, 2016 Jan

Clinical nephrology, 2011 Oct

The American journal of medicine, 1992 Jul

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation, 2002 Jul

The New England journal of medicine, 2024 Jul 25

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2010-05-20

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2023 Oct 23

The New England journal of medicine, 2021 Mar 04

Gastroenterology, 2025 Feb

Lancet Haematol, 2018 Oct

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2012-01

Clinical and translational gastroenterology, 2019 Apr

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH, 2010 Nov

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH, 2022 Aug 10

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020 Oct 23

Techniques in vascular and interventional radiology, 2016-03

Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2022 Jun 16