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W. David Lewis
Researcher at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Publications - 43
Citations - 2762
W. David Lewis is an academic researcher from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liver transplantation & Transplantation. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 43 publications receiving 2604 citations. Previous affiliations of W. David Lewis include Tufts University & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Guideline of transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis for clinicians
Yukio Ando,Teresa Coelho,John L. Berk,Márcia Waddington Cruz,Bo Göran Ericzon,Shu-ichi Ikeda,W. David Lewis,Laura Obici,Violaine Planté-Bordeneuve,Claudio Rapezzi,Gérard Said,Fabrizio Salvi +11 more
TL;DR: Providing guidance on making a definitive diagnosis, methods for disease staging and evaluation of disease progression, and discuss symptom mitigation and treatment strategies, including liver transplant and several pharmacotherapies that have shown promise in clinical trials are provided.
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Aggressive Surgical Resection for Cholangiocarcinoma
TL;DR: Patient survival can be significantly improved by aggressive surgical resection, and nonoperative treatment with endobiliary expandable wire mesh stents for patients with unresectable disease remains debatable.
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Cytomegalovirus Immune Globulin Prophylaxis in Liver Transplantation
David R. Snydman,Barbara G. Werner,N. N. Dougherty,John L. Griffith,Robert H. Rubin,Jules L. Dienstag,Richard H. Rohrer,Richard B. Freeman,Roger L. Jenkins,W. David Lewis,Scott M. Hammer,Edward O'Rourke,George F. Grady,Karim A. Fawaz,Marshall M. Kaplan,Mark A. Hoffman,Andrea T. Katz,M. Doran +17 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of cytomegalovirus immune globulin (CMVIG) on prevention of CMV disease and its complications in patients receiving liver transplants.
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Cryptogenic cirrhosis: Clinicopathologic findings at and after liver transplantation
Gamze Ayata,Fredric D. Gordon,W. David Lewis,Elizabeth A. Pomfret,James J. Pomposelli,Roger L. Jenkins,Urmila Khettry +6 more
TL;DR: The clinicopathologic features of CC at liver transplantation (LT) are defined, the post-LT course with outcome is disease dependent with, recurrent disease seen in both nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and autoimmune liver disease and the possible pathogenetic mechanisms are defined.
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Live Donor Adult Liver Transplantation Using Right Lobe Grafts Donor Evaluation and Surgical Outcome
Elizabeth A. Pomfret,James J. Pomposelli,W. David Lewis,Fredric D. Gordon,David L. Burns,Anne Lally,Vassilios Raptopoulos,Roger L. Jenkins +7 more
TL;DR: To minimize donor morbidity, groups considering initiating living donor programs should have expertise in hepatic resection and vena cava preservation using the "piggyback" technique during liver transplantation.