Liver transplantation in patients with portal vein thrombosisG Manzanet
Department of Surgery, Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Liver Transpl 7:125-31. 2001
..The presence of PVT at the time of OLT is not a contraindication for OLT. However, if PVT extends into the splanchnic veins, the outcome is guarded...
Liver transplantation in hepatitis C. A Spanish multi-centre experienceM Prieto
Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 10:771-6. 1998
..The purpose of this retrospective survey was to determine the prevalence and outcome of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in cirrhotic patients undergoing liver transplantation (OLT) in Spain in 1992...
Early development of chronic active hepatitis in recurrent hepatitis C virus infection after liver transplantation: association with treatment of rejectionM Berenguer
Hepatogastroenterology Service, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
J Hepatol 28:756-63. 1998
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Are posttransplantation protocol liver biopsies useful in the long term?M Berenguer
Hepatogastroenterology Service, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Liver Transpl 7:790-6. 2001
..Conversely, given the rarity of abnormal histological findings, protocol liver biopsies should be questioned in non-HCV-infected transplant recipients with normal transaminase values...
High incidence of allograft cirrhosis in hepatitis C virus genotype 1b infection following transplantation: relationship with rejection episodesM Prieto
Hepatogastroenterology Service, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia
Hepatology 29:250-6. 1999
..First-year liver biopsies may help to sooner identify patients at the highest risk, improving further patient management...
Natural history of clinically compensated hepatitis C virus-related graft cirrhosis after liver transplantationM Berenguer
Hepatogastroenterology Service, Hospital Universitari La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Hepatology 32:852-8. 2000
..The natural history of clinically compensated HCV-graft cirrhosis is shortened when compared with immunocompetent patients. If retransplantation is considered, it should be performed promptly once decompensation develops...
[Incidence of de novo neoplasms after liver transplantation]M Berenguer
Servicio de Medicina Digestiva, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia
Med Clin (Barc) 111:481-4. 1998
..De novo malignancy developing after transplantation constitutes a well-known complication or organ transplantation, mainly described among renal recipients...
De novo hepatitis B after liver transplantation from hepatitis B core antibody-positive donors in an area with high prevalence of anti-HBc positivity in the donor populationM Prieto
Hepatogastroenterology, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Liver Transpl 7:51-8. 2001
..In the current era of donor shortage, this policy would allow adequate use of such donors...
Famciclovir treatment in transplant recipients with HBV-related liver disease: disappointing resultsM Berenguer
Hepatogastroenterology Service, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Am J Gastroenterol 96:526-33. 2001
..Histological improvement was only observed in one patient. CONCLUSION: Famciclovir alone appears of limited efficacy in the treatment of HBV infection after liver transplantation...
Indications for and results of liver retransplantationR Torres-Quevedo
Unit of Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Transplant Proc 41:1016-7. 2009
..It becomes necessary to define the minimal acceptable results that patient can benefit from LReTx...
Clinical benefits of antiviral therapy in patients with recurrent hepatitis C following liver transplantationM Berenguer
Hepatogastroenterology Service, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Am J Transplant 8:679-87. 2008
..6/16; p = 0.06). The 5-year risk of graft decompensation was higher in NRs (33% vs. 16%; p = 0.04). Antiviral therapy is associated with improved long-term outcome in recurrent HCV...
Genetic similarity of hepatitis C virus and fibrosis progression in chronic and recurrent infection after liver transplantationF X López-Labrador
Microbiology Exp Immunology, Research Centre, Hospital Universitari La Fe, Valencia, Spain
J Viral Hepat 13:104-15. 2006
..In the liver transplant setting, when the immune response is severely compromised, other mechanisms are probably more important in determining hepatitis C progression...
Polymerase chain reaction detection of BK virus and monitoring of BK nephropathy in renal transplant recipients at the University Hospital La FeF J Vera-Sempere
Service of Pathology, Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, University Hospital La Fe, Valencia University Medical School, Valencia, Spain
Transplant Proc 37:3770-3. 2005
..Finally, TCR sequence analysis was performed in 9 patients to identify the BK genomic variants. CONCLUSION: Testing for BKV DNA in urine and serum is a noninvasive early detection assay and monitoring tool...