2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor Champion Program: Time to Redefine Living Liver Donation.
UVA Surgery, Charlottesville, VA.
Live Donor Champion (LDC) Programs promote the advocacy for living donor transplantation by patients' family members or friends. Hereby, we conducted a prospective 9 month…2016 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Analysis of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Living-Donor Liver Transplantation.
Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea.
Purpose: For living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT), there has been a tendency to accept extended criteria in comparison with deceased-donor liver transplantation (DDLT). However, HCC recurrence…2016 American Transplant Congress
Technique of “Loop V-Plasty” for Combined Reconstruction of the Middle Hepatic Vein and Multiple Inferior Right Hepatic Veins Using Single Polytetrafluoroethylene Graft in a Right Lobe Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Organ Transplantation, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Outflow reconstruction is a crucial step in living donor liver transplantation(LDLT)for proper graft functioning as any inadequacy of the venous drainage can cause severe graft…2016 American Transplant Congress
Durable Clinical and Immunologic Advantage of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT) in Children.
1Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; 2Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
Purpose:Despite good results, only 10% of liver transplants in children in the US are from living donors. In addition to optimal timing and graft quality,…2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Sarcopenia in Overweight/Obese Recipients on the Outcomes After Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Background/purpose: The effects of body composition disturbances on liver transplantation outcomes have recently been in focus. However, the effects of obesity, as well as sarcopenic…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Center Study of Factors That Increase Cognitive Load in Living Donor Liver Transplants.
Background: Studies have shown that distractions in the operating room (such as phones/pagers, irrelevant conversations, ins and outs) can negatively affect concentration and performance, and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplant Has Similar Outcome to Deceased Donor Liver Transplant for MELD > 25.
Background and Aims: Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is universally used to prioritize patients on the liver transplant (LT) waiting list. There has…2016 American Transplant Congress
Minimum Graft Size Avoiding Small-for-Size Associated Early Graft Failure in Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Small-for-size syndrome (SFSS) is a serious complication in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors for…2016 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Postoperative Pain Care in Living Liver Donors.
Background: Postoperative pain (POP) is the strongest predictor of chronic pain syndromes (Katz and Seltzer, Expert Rev Neurother 2009), however little is known about POP…2016 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Efficiency, Safety and Cost of Evaluating Living Donor Liver Candidates Using Single Sequence MRI.
Background: Current evaluation of donor candidates for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant (LDLT) includes MRI and CT without and with contrast for defining liver anatomy.…
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