Technical advances for abdominal wall closure after intestinal and multivisceral transplantation

UA Gerlach, A Pascher - Current opinion in organ transplantation, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Abdominal wall reconstruction after ITX/MVTX is commonly demanded and can be
conducted by different strategies. The technique should be easy to use in a timely manner …

E-scooter incidents in Berlin: an evaluation of risk factors and injury patterns

D Uluk, T Lindner, M Dahne, JW Bickelmayer… - Emergency medicine …, 2022 - emj.bmj.com
Background E-scooters have emerged as a frequently used vehicle in German cities due to
their high availability and easy access. However, investigations about the causes and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 shutdown on orthopedic trauma numbers and patterns in an academic Level I Trauma Center in Berlin, Germany

T Maleitzke, M Pumberger, UA Gerlach, C Herrmann… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to the implementation of drastic shutdown
measures worldwide. While quarantine, self-isolation and shutdown laws helped to …

Clinical relevance of the de novo production of anti‐HLA antibodies following intestinal and multivisceral transplantation

UA Gerlach, N Lachmann, B Sawitzki… - Transplant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a negative pretransplant cross‐match, intestinal transplant recipients can mount
humoral immune responses soon after transplantation. Moreover, the development of donor …

Determinants of quality of life in patients with intestinal failure receiving long‐term parenteral nutrition using the SF‐36 questionnaire: a German single‐center …

E Blüthner, J Bednarsch, M Stockmann… - Journal of Parenteral …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a life‐sustaining therapy for patients with chronic
intestinal failure (IF) but inevitably has an impact on patients' quality of life (QoL). The …

Revascularization time in liver transplantation: independent prediction of inferior short-and long-term outcomes by prolonged graft implantation

BM Buchholz, UA Gerlach, VV Chandrabalan… - …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background Strategies for successful transplantation are much needed in the era of organ
shortage, and there has been a resurgence of interest on the impact of revascularization …

Combination therapy of sofosbuvir and ribavirin fails to clear chronic hepatitis E infection in a multivisceral transplanted patient

M Schulz, CP Papp, CT Bock… - Journal of …, 2019 - journal-of-hepatology.eu
Infections with zoonotic hepatitis E virus (HEV) have been increasingly reported in
industrialized countries. Three months of detectable virus replication define chronic HEV …

Short-term TNF-alpha inhibition reduces short-term and long-term inflammatory changes post-ischemia/reperfusion in rat intestinal transplantation

UA Gerlach, G Atanasov, L Wallenta, D Polenz… - …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Background Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α inhibition was shown to reduce
ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) after intestinal transplantation (ITX). We studied the effects …

Elevation of CD4+ differentiated memory T cells is associated with acute cellular and antibody-mediated rejection after liver transplantation

UA Gerlach, K Vogt, S Schlickeiser, C Meisel… - …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Background It is now well known that the outcome after allogeneic transplantation, such as
incidence of acute rejections, very much depends on the individual's immune reactivity …

Advanced liver function assessment in patients with intestinal failure on long-term parenteral nutrition

E Blüthner, J Bednarsch, UF Pape, M Karber… - Clinical nutrition, 2020 - Elsevier
Background & aims Intestinal failure associated liver disease (IFALD) is one of the leading
complications and causes of deaths in adult patients receiving home parenteral nutrition for …