2015 American Transplant Congress
Consideration of the Futility of Transplant: 50% Mortality at 5 Years
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Introduction: Transplant recipients are globally sicker at the time of liver transplantation (LT) in the current era. We sought to devise and validate a model…2015 American Transplant Congress
Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis as Indication for Liver Transplantation in Europe. Do We Choose the Right Organs for the Right Recipients?
Background:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has emerged to become the third leading cause for liver transplantation (LT) in the US and since 2002, it has increased constantly.Methods:We…2015 American Transplant Congress
Sex Differences in Mortality Rate Among Patients Waiting for Liver Transplantation
1Columbia University, New York; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Livers are allocated according to MELD score without regard to patient demographics. However, MELD-adjusted risk of death may vary by sex, since serum creatinine level…2015 American Transplant Congress
Use of MELD Exception Points in Patients With Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Metastases: Variable Use and Proposed Criterion for Approval
Purpose: Most patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have preserved hepatic synthetic function, and their providers may seek increased waitlist priority via MELD exception points.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Distal Splenorenal Shunt (DSRS): A Durable Bridge to Liver Transplantation
Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Diseases, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
Background: Variceal bleeding has a high rate of in-hospital mortality approaching 50%. Patients with well-compensated cirrhosis and recurrent variceal bleeding may benefit from long-term prophylaxis…2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Liver Allografts from Deceased Donors. Non Medical Causes for Discard. A Review of the SRTR Annual Report
1Surgery, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO; 2Medicine, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO.
INTRODUCTION: Discrepancy between demand (end stage organ disease) and supply (organs) remains one of the limiting factors in solid organ transplantation and underlies the dynamics…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Living and Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Recipients According to the MELD Score
Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
BackgroundLiving donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has developed as an alternative to decease donor liver transplantation (DDLT) to overcome the critical shortage of deceased organ donations.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Liver Transplant Outcomes for Recipients With MELD <35 Vs. >35
Div. of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN.
Introduction: Current allocation favors liver recipients with MELD > 35 . We compared liver tx outcomes among two groups based on MELD score at the…2015 American Transplant Congress
Single-Center Analysis of Adult, Combined Heart-Liver Transplant (CHLT) Recipients
Background: Combined heart-liver transplantation (CHLT) is life-saving for patients with end-stage heart-liver diseases. This is a review of patients who underwent CHLT at a single-center.Methods:…2015 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Post-Extubation O2 Delivery on Recipient Hypoxic Cholangiopathy in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: The University of Colorado Experience
The critical shortage of deceased organ donors has led to increased utilization of DCD liver grafts. The purpose of this study was to evaluate DCD…
American Transplant Congress abstracts