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2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Liver Transplantation in Patients with Renal Failure Since Implementation of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Allocation Policy
P. J. Altshuler, O. Shaheen, A. P. Shah, J. Glorioso, A. Frank, C. Ramirez, W. Maley, A. S. Bodzin
Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: To reduce potentially unnecessary kidney utilization, as of August 10, 2017 a new allocation policy was implemented restricting Simultaneous Liver Kidney (SLK) transplant to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying Gender-Based Disparties in Liver Allocation: A Path Forward
B. A. Shelton¹, K. Olthoff², E. Pomfret³, K. A. Forde², D. Sawinski⁴, M. Gray¹, N. Ascher⁵, J. E. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Differences in local organ supply and demand have introduced geographic inequities in the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) based liver allocation system prompting…
2020 American Transplant Congress
What Are the Peri-Operative and Longterm Outcomes of Utilizing Donation after Circulatory Death Livers with Macrosteatosis? A Multicenter Analysis
K. Croome¹, A. Mathur², S. Mao¹, B. Aqel³, P. Senada¹, J. Piatt¹, J. Heimbach⁴, A. Moss³, C. Rosen⁴, C. Taner¹
¹Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, ²Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scotsdale, AZ, ³Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Given the potentially additive risk from using donor livers that are both steatotic and from a donation after circulatory death(DCD) donor, there is a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HCV-Positive Donors Are Healthier and Inequitably Utilized in the United States
B. L. Da, T. Kushner, G. Kakked, J. Crismale, G. Ezaz, T. Schiano, B. Saberi
Liver Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Increased utilization of HCV-positive (HCV+) liver allografts has been endorsed as a solution to the national organ shortage. Due to the opioid epidemic, there…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Widespread Deregulation of Metabolic Genes in Steatotic Livers Pre- And Post-Transplantation
A. R. Wolen¹, C. Kuscu², C. Kuscu², A. Bajwa², J. Eason², S. Sataphaty³, J. D. Eason¹, D. Maluf¹, V. Mas¹
¹Department of Surgery_ University of Tennessee, James D Eason Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN, ²Department of Surgery, Transplant Research Institute, James D. Eason Transplant Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ³Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases & Transplantation, Northshore University Hospital/Northwell Health, NYC, NY
*Purpose: The escalating obesity crisis is a double-edged sword for the field of liver transplantation; higher rates of fatty liver disease increase both the demand…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty is Strongly Associated with Self-Reported Symptom Burden among Patients with Cirrhosis Undergoing Evaluation for Liver Transplantation
L. X. Deng, K. E. Bischoff, D. S. Kent, D. L. O’Riordan, S. Z. Pantilat, J. C. Lai
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Among patients with cirrhosis, frailty has most commonly been measured using instruments that focus on malnutrition, muscle wasting, and functional impairment. Little is known…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Introducing the Smartphone App, EL-FIT (Exercise & Liver FITness), to Help Monitor and Prehabilitate Liver Transplant Candidates
A. Duarte-Rojo¹, P. M. Bloomer¹, R. J. Rogers², M. A. Dunn¹, E. B. Tapper³, R. Bataller¹, C. B. Hughes¹, A. A. Ferrando¹, W. R. Kim⁴, J. M. Jakicic²
¹University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Physical activity is key to liver transplant (LT) prehabilitation, and leveraging technologies to monitor physical performance and to generalize training may be advantageous. EL-FIT…
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2019 Refined Criteria for Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy Predict Post Liver Transplant Cardiac Events
M. J. Izzy¹, A. Soldatova², X. Sun², M. Angirekula³, K. Mara⁴, G. Lin², K. Watt³
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM) encompasses systolic ± diastolic dysfunction (DD) in patients with end stage liver disease in the absence of known cardiac disease. The…
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Bacterial Infection in Compensated Cirrhosis Predicts Inpatient Mortality and Readmission with Decompensation
R. Rosenblatt¹, A. Jesudian¹, C. Lucero¹, A. Kaplan¹, R. S. Brown¹, V. Sundaram², B. Fortune¹
¹Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Identify the impact of bacterial infection on inpatient mortality and new decompensation in hospitalized patients with compensated cirrhosis from a nationally representative database.*Methods: This…
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Increasing Prevalence and Diversity: Alcoholic Liver Disease in Liver Transplant Candidates
M. Joshi, E. L. Godfrey, J. A. Goss, A. Rana
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Increasing global alcohol use translates to a marked growth in alcoholic liver disease (ALD). ALD patients comprise a larger proportion of listings for liver…