Incidence and Risk Factors for the Development of Prolonged Severe Intrahepatic Cholestasis After Pediatric Living-Donor Liver Transplantation

Taking a Big Breath: Identifying and Preventing Pulmonary Complications After Liver Transplantation

“…Gebhard Wagener, MD 1 I n this issue of Transplantation, Oh et al 1 describe the results of a retrospective study of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) in 608 patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation over a period of 9 y. More than half of the patients developed pulmonary complications defined as respiratory failure, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, moderate-severe atelectasis, or pleural effusions within 7 d after the transplant.…”