2016 American Transplant Congress
Number of Bacterial Isolates and Resistance Increases Mortality Risk in Intestinal Transplant Patients.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
BackgroundInfection is the most common complication in intestinal transplant (IT) recipients. Data regarding the impact of infections on outcomes following IT is limited.MethodsThis is a…2016 American Transplant Congress
CD45RO+/CD62L- Effector Memory T Cells Mediate Depletion Resistant Allograft Rejection in Intestinal Transplant Recipients.
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington DC.
A. A high risk of acute cellular rejection (ACR) is one of the key factors limiting intestinal transplantation (ITx). An extremely poor prognosis is related…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Related Small Bowel Transplantation in Children, a Single-Center Experience – Growth, Development and Quality of Life 10 Years After Transplant.
Summary Background: Pediatric patients with irreversible intestinal failure present multiple challenges due to their young ages and their associated growth needs. We have previously published…2016 American Transplant Congress
Health Disparities in Pediatric Intestinal Transplantation: Before and After the Implementation of MELD/PELD.
Racial disparities have been demonstrated in solid organ transplantation with regard to wait times and patient/graft survival but intestinal transplantation (IT) has not been as…2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Related Small Bowel Transplantation in Children – Patient and Graft Survival at 10 Years.
Objective: To describe a single-center experience of pediatric living related small bowel transplantation (LRSBtx) and to provide an overview of the outcomes of the children…2016 American Transplant Congress
Computed Tomography Measures of Nutrition Deficits in Patients with Intestine Failure.
Surgery, Transplant Division, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Introduction: Patients with intestine failure (IF) and dependence on parenteral nutrition (PN) develop severe nutrition deficits that impact on perioperative morbidity and mortality. Previous research…2016 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Techniques in Modified Multiorgan Transplantation.
Objective: Investigate the clinical efficacy of combined en-bloc liver-pancreas transplantation in patients with end stage liver disease and diabetes.Method: The clinical data of 19 cases…2016 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Inclusion of the Liver on the Outcome After Intestinal Transplantation.
1Abdominal Transplantation, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2Pathology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Introduction: Intestinal transplantation (ITx) is indicated when life-threatening complications occur following chronic total parenteral nutrition in intestinal failure patients. Several complications (TPN related irreversible liver…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Surgical Preconditioning in Patients with Ultra-Short Gut Using a Native Colonic Conduit for Anticipated Visceral Transplantation.
Center of Gut Rehabilitation and Transplant, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Objective: The last decade witnessed the significant improvement in the morbidity and mortality of short gut syndrome (SGS) patients. However, still a challenge is the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Differences in the Prevalence of Food Allergies After Liver and or Bowel Transplantation.
Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
BackgroundFood allergies are reported after transplantation of solid organs in children. We have recently reported an increase in the prevalence of esophageal eosinophilic disease in…
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