2016 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes After Splenectomy for Small-for-Size Syndrome in Live Donor Liver Transplantation.
Transplantation, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Introduction: The use of lower volume liver grafts has the potential to expand the donor pool in adult-to-adult live donor liver transplantation (LDLT), but is…2016 American Transplant Congress
Fatigue, Pain, and Other Physical Symptoms of Living Liver Donors.
Background: Post-operative pain and fatigue can be significant for some living liver donors (LLD). A better appreciation of these outcomes may inform pre-donation education and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Psychological Outcomes of Living Liver Donors.
Background: Living liver donors (LLD) are healthy adults donating a portion of their liver to a recipient in need. To justify the risk to LLD,…2016 American Transplant Congress
Personal Relationships and Financial Outcomes in Living Liver Donors.
Background:Little is known about living liver donation's impact on donor personal relationships and financial outcomes. We examined these areas in a prospective 9-center liver donor…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
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
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
Updated Experience of Living Donor Right Hepatectomy Using Mini-Incision Technique.
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Aim: We previously reported 28 consecutive cases of minimally invasive living donor right hepatectomy (10cm mini-incision right hepatectomy with or without laparoscopic assistance). Currently, we…2016 American Transplant Congress
Center and Surgeons' Experience Improves Outcome in Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Validation of the Report of the A2ALL Consortium.
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background: Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL) has reported improved outcomes in centers with greater experience (>20 cases). The aim of this study…2016 American Transplant Congress
Eculizumab for Chronic Antibody-Mediated Injury in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Randomized-Controlled Trial.
Purpose: We hypothesize that de novo donor specific antibody (DSA) in kidney transplant patients cause endothelial cell injury that is dependent on complement and treatment…
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