1. Long-term results of combined kidney and liver transplantation at one center
- Author
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C. Goupy, Gérard Benoit, J.R. Larue, H. Bismuth, Bernard Charpentier, René Adam, P. Blanchet, Christian Hiesse, Didier Samuel, and D. Castaing
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Liver transplantation ,medicine ,Humans ,Renal Insufficiency ,Contraindication ,Dialysis ,Kidney transplantation ,Aged ,Transplantation ,Kidney ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Transplantation ,Surgery ,Liver Transplantation ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,business ,Kidney disease - Abstract
RENAL FAILURE associated with end stage hepatopathy has been, until recently, considered as a contraindication for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).1 This was because of the high mortality rate and the serious complications found during the posttransplant period.2 Because the global results of combined kidney and liver transplantation (CKLT) have improved and there are increasing numbers of patients in dialysis who have chronic liver diseases, CKLT has emerged as the technique of choice.3 This study reports our single-center experience of 22 CKLTs performed between April 1986 and December 1995 in patients with end stage chronic renal failure or with biopsy-proven kidney disease associated with end stage liver failure. This study also compares these results with a control series of 785 kidney-transplanted patients in the same unit during the same period. more...
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- 1997