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Fall 2020
Background: Liver transplantation is the only definite cure for patients with end-stage liver diseases. Patients that receive a liver transplant are routinely followed with periodic Doppler ultrasound because it is safe, widely available and effective to diagnose and predict some complications....
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Fall 2019
Waitlist mortality resulting from a shortage of transplantable liver grafts has led to increased use of donation after circulatory death (DCD) grafts. However these marginal grafts are associated with higher complication rates. Normothermic ex-situ perfusion of DCD livers has shown encouraging...
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Fall 2022
Marfil Garza, Braulio Alejandro
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune-mediated destruction of the insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. People with T1D need exogenous insulin to survive, but also to avoid complications from uncontrolled glycemia. Unfortunately, insulin treatment commonly...