Evaluation of Serum Taurine as a Prognostic Marker for Graft Function in Adult Egyptian Patients Undergoing Living Donor Liver Transplant

Although the hepatoprotective properties of taurine are well established, however the correlation of the perioperative serum level of this amino acid in the recipients of living donor liver transplantation ( LDLT ) and graft function has not been investigated so far. In the present study, we proposed to examine the serum taurine as a prognostic marker for graft function in adult Egyptian patients undergoing LDLT