Kaihang Wang: Portal Vein Thrombosis After Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Kaihang Wang, Medical Student at University of Zurich, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article she and her colleagues co-authored, published in Transplantation, adding:
“I am excited to share that my first paper has been published in Transplantation.
Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) remains a serious complication after pediatric liver transplantation using technical variant grafts, often threatening both graft and patient survival. In this international multicenter collaboration across 19 centers, we analyzed the risks in 3,137 pediatric recipients:
PVT was associated with a 2.8-fold increase in patient mortality and a nearly 10-fold increase in the risk of graft loss.
Lower recipient body weight and an underlying diagnosis of biliary atresia emerged as the strongest independent predictors driving PVT, highlighting the need for early detection.
Thank you to all the co-authors and participating centers who made this international collaboration possible, and to my supervisors Dr. Zhihao Li and Prof. Pierre-Alain Clavien for their incredible mentorship.”
Title: Portal Vein Thrombosis in Pediatric Liver Transplantation With Technical Variant Grafts: An International Multicenter Analysis of Risk and Prognostic Factors
Authors: Kaihang Wang, Omid Madadi-Sanjani, Yuan Liu, Dimitri A Raptis, Vasanthakumar Gunasekaran, Ashwin Rammohan, Seisuke Sakamoto, Hajime Uchida, Piotr Kaliciński, Nicolas Goldaracena, Cornelius J van Beekum, Felix J Krendl, Itsuko Chih-Yi Chen, Bryanna N Domenick, Alfred Kow, Yuji Soejima, Katryn N Furuya, George V Mazariegos, Vidyadhar Padmakar Mali, Stephen Dunn, Kim Olthoff, Elizabeth B Rand, Ian Leipnitz, Chao-Long Chen, Deniz Balci, Elvan Onur Kirimker, Silvio Nadalin, Stefan Schneeberger, Debra L Sudan, Moritz Schmelzle, Uta Herden, Lutz Fischer, Blayne A Sayed, Vicky L Ng, Grzegorz Kowalewski, Mureo Kasahara, Mohamed Rela, Dieter C Broering, Qiang Xia, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Zhihao Li
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