November 3-10, 2019
Learn more about the inaugural site visit between UCSF and Hospital México here.
October 14, 2019
Presentation by UCSF's Director of Liver Transplant Anesthesia, Dr. Kate Kronish, about the program's procedures and protocols for perioperative anesthesia care.
September 9, 2019
Discussion of the high incidence rate, in particular of the liver-predominant type, of Wilson’s Disease (WD) in Costa Rica (4.9/100,000 inhabitants). The majority of patients with WD exhibit a liver-predominant disease, of whom more than 5% present with fulminant liver failure. Several patients with ALF due to WD, who would otherwise be considered for a transplant, do not make it to transplant.
August 26, 2019
Presentation of cases regarding a splenectomy on POD 2 after a liver transplant with subsequent portal vein thrombosis and a case of air embolism after living donor liver transplant.
UCSF ATTENDANCE UCSF PRESENTATION
August 12, 2019
Case conference continuing the previous meeting's cases as well as a complication presentation of primary non-function and updates about pathology telecommunication.
UCSF Attendance UCSF PRESENTATION
July 22, 2019
Introductory Paired Transplant Centers Program meeting between the Emerging and Supporting Centers and case conference discussing two cases: cholestasis in a patient six months post-transplant and a patient with post-transplant kidney failure and sepsis.