Hepatology

Transplant Hepatology

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What is your approach to liver transplantation candidacy in those with decompensated cirrhosis who have been treated for a solid-organ malignancy, such as oral SCC?

Is there a minimum time of waiting that is necessary between the completion of cancer treatment and liver transplantation?

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For cirrhotic patients that we take care of in the community, when should be the optimal timing of referral for liver transplantation aside from the MELD score?

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?

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What cardiac testing do you perform for patients undergoing liver transplant evaluation?

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For remote liver transplant recipients back under the care of a community gastroenterologist (or PCP), what should be the approach to new liver enzyme elevations?

What should be ordered? Any medications given?

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What graft and patient factors would increase the risk of early graft failure?

What are your management/preventative strategies, and are they specific to your experiences and/or institution?

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Under which circumstances is there a role for reduction in immunosuppression post-SOT in a patient with recurrent CMV viremia and/or disease?

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Are there any specific guidelines for the transplantation of metastatic disease to the liver or are these institution specific?

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

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Having gone through multiple iterations, what MELD updates/considerations should we anticipate in the future?

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What are your diagnostic and treatment goals for a patient with cirrhotic cardiomyopathy?

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

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How do you decide which patient and with which device to pursue machine perfusion for the organ of a liver transplant recipient?

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

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What is your strategy to manage the complication of long-term immunosuppression in liver transplant recipients, specifically renal dysfunction and onset of cardiometabolic comorbidities?

Do you opt for dose reduction? Switching medications?

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What is your strategy to manage peri-procedural bleeding risk in patients with cirrhosis?

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

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How would you workup a patient who develops ascites AFTER liver transplantation?

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How does the presence of porto-mesenteric vein thrombosis impact a patient's transplant candidacy?

How do you go about working up and managing patients with these findings?

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Is there a serum ammonium level for which you recommend initiation of dialysis in a patient with hepatic encephalopathy?

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Should a patient who requires definitive treatment for prostate cancer as a pre-transplant requirement be strictly required to complete their course prior to transplant/initiation of immunosuppression?

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?

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For how long would you treat a patient with latent TB before allowing them to proceed with a liver transplant?

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With an increase in the prevalence of MASLD in the United States population, what recipient and donor characteristics do you find favorable for acceptance of a highly steatotic graft?

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How do you determine when you would treat an identified spleno-renal shunt and how?

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What would be the right patient profile and experience for someone who may have (operational) tolerance and how do you approach immunosuppresison management (or withdrawal) in this patient?

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Can tacrolimus in a transplant patient be used during radiation and concurrent chemoradiation?

Does your practice differ depending on the disease site?

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How do you determine which patients are good candidates to have their organ receive machine perfusion therapy before implantation?

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What patient features would favor the creation of a Hutson loop intra-operatively?

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How do you approach the evaluation of a living donor liver transplant candidate?

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

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How do you counsel patients on the use of marginal organs and/or high risk donors who are on the liver transplant wait list?

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How do you approach risk of development of PTLD in liver transplant recipients with positive EBV antibodies and/or viral loads?

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How much do you factor in a patient's frailty in selection for transplant if the underlying driver for their debility is their underlying liver disease itself?

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How long do you treat uncomplicated gram-negative rod bacteremia in solid organ transplant recipients?

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How do you approach cognitive impairment in the assessment of transplant candidacy?

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Papers discussed in this category

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

Pretransplant solid organ malignancy and organ transplant candidacy: A consensus expert opinion statement.

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

How We Treat Hyperammonemia in Acute Liver Failure.

Cardiovascular and interventional radiology, 2024 Jun 10

Percutaneous Biliary Interventions via the Modified Hutson Loop in Patients with Biliary-Enteric Anastomoses: A Retrospective Study.

Techniques in vascular and interventional radiology, 2016-03

Portal Vein Recanalization and Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation for Chronic Portal Vein Thrombosis: Technical Considerations.

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

Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy: Appraisal of the original and revised criteria in predicting posttransplant cardiac outcomes.

Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 2025 Aug 22

AASLD AST Practice Guideline on Adult Liver Transplantation: Diagnosis and management of Graft-Related complications.

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