Graft calcification caused by a torsion of the hepatic vein after a living-related donor liver transplantation

The torsion of vessels after liver transplantation rarely occurs. Likewise, calcification of a liver graft has seldom been reported. This report details a case which had torsion of the left hepatic vein on the seventh d...

Updating the knowledge of hepatitis E: new variants and higher prevalence of anti-HEV in Argentina

Introduction. Hepatitis E is a disease of global distribution, with significant morbidity and mortality, whose scope and burden continue to emerge in low endemic countries. Material and methods. In 2012, we studied the p...

Annual Meeting of the Mexican Association pf Hepatology

Transplanting Kidney Allografts from Hepatitis C Infected Donors into Hepatitis C Uninfected Recipients: Re-Thinking the Thinker Trial

In the not so distant past, organs from hepatitis C infected donors were either discarded or rarely transplanted into HCV viremic recipients - but never allocated to non-infected patients. However, the simplicity, ease...

Patterns of viral load in chronic hepatitis B patients in Brazil and their association with ALT levels and HBeAg status

Serum hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA level is a predictor of the development of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic hepatitis B patients. Nevertheless, the distribution of viral load levels in chronic HBV pati...