Selected Recent Publications:

• One Thousand Consecutive Primary Liver Transplants Under Tacrolimus Immunosuppression: A 17- to 20-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up.Jain A, Singhal A, Fontes P, Mazariegos G, Devera ME, Cacciarelli T, Lopez RC, Sindhi R, Humar A, Marsh JW. Transplantation. 2011 Mar 3. [Epub ahead of print]
• Liver Transplantation Using Donation after Cardiac Death Donors: Long-term Follow-up from a single center. de Vera ME, Lopez-Solis R, Dvorchik I, Campos S, Morris W, Demetris AJ, Fontes P, Marsh JW. Am J Transplant. 2009 Apr;9(4):773-81.
• Aggarwal S, Lopez RC, Patzer JF. Intracraneal pressure observations in a canine model of acute liver failure supported by a bioartificial liver support system. Artif Organs. 2007 Nov;31(11):834-9.
• Mazariegos GV, Patzer II JF, Lopez RC, giraldo M, de Vera M, Grogan TA, Zhu, Y, Fulmer M, Amiot B, Kramer DJ: First clinical use of a novel bioartificial liver support system (BLSS). Am J Trnasplant 2(3): 260-266, 2002
• Patzer JF, Mazariegos GV, Lopez R: Preclinical evaluation of the Excorp Medical, Inc. bioartifical liver support system. J Am Coll Surg 195 (3): 299-310, 2002
• Patzer II JF, Lopez RC, Zhu Y, Wang Z-F, Mazariegos GV, Fung JJ: Bioartificial liver assist devices in support of patients with liver failure. HBPD Int 1: 18-25, 2002
• Kuddus R, Patzer II JF, Lopez R, Mazariegos GV, Meighen B, Kramer DJ, Rao AS: Clinical and laboratory evaluation of the safety of a bioartificial liver assist device for potential transmission of procine endogenous retrovirus. Transplantation 73: 420-429, 2002

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Roberto Carlos Lopez
Phone: 412-647-5800
Email: lopezrc@upmc.edu