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Younger Age is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation Alone for Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
R. Gedaly, D. Valvi, X. Mei, M. Gupta, M. Shah, A. Ancheta, F. Marti
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: Neuroendocrine tumor (NET) metastases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The role of liver transplantation to treat unresectable metastases from NET is…
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Financial Feasibility of a Culturally Competent and Linguistically Congruent Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program
E. Gordon¹, A. Wang¹, G. McNatt¹, M. Abecassis², J. Caicedo¹
¹Northwestern U Feinberg Sch of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
*Purpose: Relative to their representation on the waitlist, Hispanics/Latinos received significantly fewer LDKTs than non-Hispanic Whites in 2018: 5.0% versus 12.2%. In 2006, Northwestern Medicine…
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The Economic Impact of National Standardization of Virtual Crossmatch Usage in Kidney Transplantation
J. E. Stanton¹, L. M. Rebellato², H. Pournik¹, J. E. Tuttle-Newhall¹, H. Jones¹, W. Irish¹, D. B. Leeser¹
¹Department of Surgery, East Carolina University, The Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, ²Department of Pathology, East Carolina University, The Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: The implementation of virtual crossmatching (VXM) into conventional protocols may reduce expenditures associated with organ allocation.*Methods: A single center retrospective analysis of the total…
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Mortality Index Should Be Used to Provide Realistic Expectations Regarding Transplant Candidacy
Y. Chalicheemala¹, K. Chavin², T. Srinivas¹, A. Padiyar¹
¹Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Renal transplant improves outcomes of well-selected elderly patients with end stage renal disease. Older patients with significant comorbidities may not live long enough to…
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Opioid Utilization Post-Operatively in Kidney Transplantation
S. Gattis, R. Badell
Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported prescription opioid involved deaths increasing since the 1990s. National efforts are being made to fight…
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Donor Derived Transmissions 2018: Analysis of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
M. Michaels¹, B. Plucinski², E. Ward², L. Strasfeld¹, M. Malinis¹, C. Ho¹, L. Danziger-Isakov¹, J. Bucio¹, G. Berry¹, M. Rana¹, C. Marboe¹, S. Aslam¹, R. Razonable¹, S. Pouch¹, G. F. Marklin¹, J. Levitsky¹, D. Levine¹, A. Agarwal¹, R. LaHoz¹
¹OPTN DTAC, Richmond, VA, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The OPTN DTAC, a multidisciplinary group, evaluates potential donor derived transmission events (PDDTE), mostly infections (I) & malignancies (M), to assess the likelihood of…
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Salvaging Discarded Livers with Normothermic Machine Perfusion: Is it Worth the Cost?
R. J. de Vries, S. Raigani, C. Carroll, Y. Chen, D. C. Chang, J. F. Markmann, K. Uygun, H. Yeh
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) enables transplantation of discarded grafts with excellent outcomes in clinical trials. The cost of deploying NMP is often cited as…
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Functional Changes in Metabolic and Malignancy Associated Bacterial Genes in the Post Transplant Intestinal Microbiome
M. Bhat¹, S. Sivaraj¹, E. Pasini¹, J. Copeland², J. Allard³, A. Humar¹
¹Multi-Organ Transplant, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Long-term survival of liver transplant (LT) recipients is affected by metabolic and malignant complications. The aim of our study was to examine changes in…
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Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Unresectable Liver Confined Colorectal Liver Metastases: A North American Experience
L. I. Ruffolo, K. Dokus, M. Larye, J. Errigo, J. Bhoely, R. Dunne, M. Levstik, B. Al-Jadaibi, K. Tomiyama, R. Hernandez-Alejandro
Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
*Purpose: Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer related death, and 50% of patients will either present with synchronous or develop colorectal liver…
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De Novo NAFLD Post-Liver Transplant is Defined by Altered Lipid Metabolism and Mitochondrial Dysfunction
M. Bhat¹, E. Pasini¹, M. Angeli¹, J. Allard², A. Humar¹
¹Multi-Organ Transplant, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: De Novo Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) affects up to 35% of liver transplant (LT) recipients transplanted for non-NAFLD indications. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the…