• S Faenza, G Arpesella, E Bernardi, A Faenza, E Pierucci, A Siniscalchi, A Zanoni, and A D Pinna.
• Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Ranimatorie e dei Trapianti, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy. aneria@med.unibo.it
• Transplant. Proc. 2006 May 1;38(4):1114-7.

AbstractCombined transplants with the liver represent a small number of associated pathologies with little chance of resolving with a single transplant. The small case number prevents us from establishing homogeneous criteria for the procedure. The insertion of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease in the preoperative evaluation of the patients awaiting liver transplant has definitely increased the number of combined liver-kidney transplants, which have reached more significant numbers. The number of heart-liver transplants is still too low to establish the efficacy of the measure. The multiorgan transplant with the liver represents a rare event entrusted to a series of case reports, each one of which has a history unto itself. Our experience in this field includes 14 combined liver-kidney, six combined heart-liver, and two multiorgan transplants with liver among 36 intestine transplants. We have examined the main pre-, intra-, and postsurgical problems for each one of these transplants, particularly relating to the anesthetic and intensive-care aspects.

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