COLMENERO , Jordi

The number of patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) in Spain has halved from 2015 to 2019 due to the reduction of candidates with hepatitis C and the successful implementation of nonheart beating donation programs across the country. The Spanish Society for Liver Transplantation has committed to take advantage of this situation by...

Livers from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors are an increasingly more common source of organs for transplantation. While there are few high-level studies in the field of DCD liver transplantation, clinical practice has undergone progressive changes during the past decade, in particular due to mounting use of postmortem normothermic...

Cancer is the leading cause of death after liver transplantation (LT). This multicenter case–control nested study aimed to evaluate the effect of maintenance immunosuppres sion on post-LT malignancy. The eligible cohort included 2495 LT patacrolimus-based immunosuppression. After 13 922 person/years follow-up, 425 patients (19.7%) developed...

To the editor,Diagnosis of sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS) after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is based on clinical criteria including weight gain, ascites, he-patomegaly, and jaundice.[1] However, clinical and histological features and prognosis of SOS after liver transplantation (LT) seem ...