TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Simultaneous Liver–Kidney Transplantation for Adult Recipients A1 - Delrosario, Jussle Lawrence A1 - Nair, Vinay A1 - Madireddy, Varun A1 - Lapman, Sebastian A1 - Abate, Mersema A1 - Nair, Gayatri Devi A1 - Bhaskaran, Madhu A1 - Foster, Clarence E. A2 - Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo A2 - Santibañes, Martin de A2 - Santibañes, Eduardo de PY - 2021 T2 - Liver Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management AB - Margreiter and colleagues performed the first simultaneous liver–kidney transplant (SLK) in 1983.1 The number of SLK transplants has increased over 300% since the establishment of the Model of End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring system. The MELD scoring system was instituted in 2002.2 SLK transplants have increased from 1.7% of all liver transplants (LT) in the United States in 1990 to 9.9% in 2016.3–5 SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/24 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180113062 ER -