Pretransplant management of the cirrhotic patient.
Cirrhosis is the twelfth commonest cause of death in the United States, with more than 27,000 deaths and more than 421,000 hospitalizations annually. Currently, there are more than 17,000 patients awaiting liver transplantation in the United States across the 11 United Network for Organ Sharing regions. Approximately 10% of such patients will die awaiting transplantation.
Grewal
Priya
P
The Division of Liver Diseases, Recanati-Miller Transplantation Institute, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1104, New York, NY 10029, USA. priya.grewal@mountsinai.org
Martin
Paul
P
D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy