Jeremiah G. Turcotte

TL;DR: Data suggest that the MELD score is able to accurately predict 3-month mortality among patients with chronic liver disease on the liver waiting list and can be applied for allocation of donor livers.

TL;DR: The development and initial implementation of a continuous disease severity scale that uses objective, readily available variables to predict mortality risk in patients with end‐stage liver disease and reduce the emphasis on waiting time is described.

TL;DR: Laroscopic donor nephrectomy is associated with a briefer, less intense, and more complete convalescence compared with the open surgical approach.

TL;DR: It was concluded that liver transplantation is successful in selected patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, that patients who are not selected because they are "too well" need continuing surveillance as a significant decline in survival can occur 18-24 months after initial evaluation, and that patients not selected on psychiatric grounds have a significantly worse survival rate than those with transplants.

TL;DR: An innovative method is described that provides increased length of the donor arterial supply without the use of an arterial graft and on the occurrence of hepatic arterial complications after liver transplantation.