Background The ongoing pandemic is having a collateral health effect on delivery of surgical
care to millions of patients. Very little is known about pandemic management and effects on …

Background Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS)
is a novel strategy to resect liver tumors despite the small size of the liver remnant. It is an …

Objective: To evaluate a new 2-step technique for obtaining adequate but short-term
parenchymal hypertrophy in oncologic patients requiring extended right hepatic resection with …

… As you know, the ratio of body weight was the methodology used by Schnitzbauer in the
initial ALPPS report. This ratio to body weight is more accurate, especially in very low volumes. …

Liver transplant recipients are at increasingly high risk for suffering from impaired renal
function and probable need of renal replacement therapy. Extended criteria organs and …

Background We investigated whether sirolimus-based immunosuppression improves outcomes
in liver transplantation (LTx) candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify predictors of 90-day mortality after Associating
Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy (ALPPS), available after …

Background The potential anti-cancer effects of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)
inhibitors are being intensively studied. To date, however, few randomised clinical trials (RCT) …

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the survival benefit of sirolimus in patients
undergoing liver transplantation (LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)(exploratory analysis …

Background Mortality rates after liver surgery are not well documented in Germany. More
than 1000 hospitals offer liver resection, but there is no central regulation of infrastructure …