Rolf F. Barth

Rolf F Barth Department of pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, rolf.barth@osumc.edu L Maximilian Buja Department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, USA Zaid Abassi Department of physiology and biophysics, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israels tekniska institut, Haifa, Israel Drottning Kristina av Sverige (1626–1689) var en anmärkningsvärd kvinna vars 400-årsdag infaller i år.

The University of Chicago Medicine is known worldwide for its liver transplant expertise. Its transplant team performs more than 100 liver transplants per year and routinely handles complex cases and multi-organ transplants – with higher-than-expected transplant rates and reduced mortality rates while on the waiting list. UChicago Medicine performed the world’s first successful living donor liver transplant in 1989, using part of a healthy person’s liver.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now a worldwide pandemic and is the most significant global health crisis of our time. COVID-19 disease continues to present us with major healthcare challenges with over 8 million cases around the world and still less than optimal treatment options [1]. The virus initially was identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in 2019.