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2019 American Transplant Congress
The Power of Young Donor Liver; Elixir of Life for Sick Liver Transplant Recipient
J. Kusakabe¹, J. McVey², D. J. Firl², M. Fujiki², F. N. Aucejo², C. Quintini², K. Hashimoto², K. Sasaki²
¹Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, ²Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Young donor organs are known to have significant prognostic benefits in liver transplantation (LT). However, details of short- and long-term prognostic benefits of young…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Identifying a Clinically Relevant Cut-Off for Height That is Associated with a Higher Risk of Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates
J. Ge, J. C. Lai
University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We have previously demonstrated that candidate height explains a substantial proportion of sex-based disparity in waitlist (WL) mortality among liver transplant (LT) candidates. To…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Allograft Dysfunction in High Acuity Liver Transplant Recipients
T. Ito, M. Lu, A. Murray, D. S. Graham, J. DiNorcia, V. G. Agopian, H. Yersiz, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, F. M. Kaldas
Department of Surgery, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Organ recipient matching in Liver Transplantation (LT) has become ever-more challenging with the ongoing organ scarcity and increasing patient acuity. While the notion that…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact Of Aggressive Utilization Of Liver Allografts On Outcomes
A. Rana, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Many risk factors impact outcomes for liver transplantation, among them are factors that are particular to individual transplant centers or center-level factors. Our aim…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Patients With Persistently Low MELD-Na Scores Continue To Be At Risk Of Liver Related Death
N. Mazumder, K. Atiemo, S. Montag, A. Daud, A. Kho, M. Abecassis, J. Levitsky, D. Ladner
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Model for End Stage Liver Disease-Sodium (MELD-Na) score is a reliable predictor of 90-day mortality however its long term predictive ability is unclear,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Increasing the Number of Liver Transplants through Active Review of Offers Turned Down
M. L. Melcher, C. A. Bonham, A. Gallo, W. Concepcion, I. Jacobson, C. O. Esquivel
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: To increase the number of patients benefiting from a liver transplant, a university transplant program instituted a weekly review meeting of the transplant surgeons…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Taking a Step toward Standardization: Results of an American Society of Transplant Surgeons/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Survey of Donation after Circulatory Death Liver Recovery Practices
M. Hobeika¹, R. Glazner², D. Foley¹, S. Hanish¹, C. Quintini¹, E. Eidbo², D. Axelrod¹
¹American Society of Transplant Surgeons DCD Task Force, Arlington, VA, ²Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Vienna, VA
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplants (LT) represented only 6.3% of total U.S. LT in 2017, despite DCD comprising 18.3% of the deceased…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Factors Associated with the Acceptance of Livers for Liver Transplantation: Validation of the Discard Risk Index in the Eurotransplant Region
J. D. Boer¹, H. Putter², J. J. Blok³, N. Cambridge¹, S. Van den Berg¹, U. Samuel¹, G. Berlakovich⁴, M. Guba⁵, A. E. Braat³
¹Eurotransplant International Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Transplant Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Hospital of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany
*Purpose: In times of organ shortage it has to be better understood why available livers are not transplanted. This study aims to analyze factors associated…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Analysis Of Public Health Service Increased Risk Donors Shows No Viral Transmission In Liver Transplant Recipients And Similar Graft / Patient Survival When Compared To Non-increased Risk Donors
A. Amin, T. Ito, D. Ng, R. McMillan, J. DiNorcia, V. Agopian, F. Kaldas, H. Yersiz, R. Busuttil, D. Farmer
Department of Surgery, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Public Health Service increased risk donors (PHS-IRD) are underutilized in liver transplant (LT) due to concern for transmission of viral (HBV, HCV, and HIV)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Gender Disparities In Cirrhosis: New Findings In A Large Pretransplant Population
N. Mazumder, K. Atiemo, A. Daud, L. Zhao, M. Abecassis, J. Levitsky, D. P. Ladner
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: There is concern that female patients may suffer worse outcomes than their male counterparts while awaiting liver transplant. Studies on this topic often use…