2016 American Transplant Congress
Heart and Kidney Transplants in Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support: Who Needs a Kidney?
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Advance Heart Disease may result in cardio-renal syndrome and thereby cause renal insufficiency. These patients (pts) can be optimized with medical therapy with reversal…2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Postoperative Glycemic Control in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York.
Hyperglycemia may occur after solid organ transplantation because of stress, immunosuppressants, and diabetes mellitus. Glycemic control has been shown to decrease morbidity and mortality in…2016 American Transplant Congress
Hospital Readmissions Following Discharge After Liver Transplantation (LT).
Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Background:Our objective was to describe incidence and causes readmissions within 30 days of discharge following liver transplantation (LT).Methodology:Medical records of 1027 consecutive patients who underwent…2016 American Transplant Congress
Validation of the Kidney Donor Risk Index (KDRI) in the Australian and New Zealand Kidney Transplant Population.
Purpose: The kidney donor risk index (KDRI), developed by the United States Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), was designed to quantify donor kidney quality.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Early Cardiac Death After Kidney Transplantation.
Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Early cardiac mortality is a devastating occurrence after transplantation. We sought to analyze risk factors and patient characteristics, including the estimated post transplant survival…2016 American Transplant Congress
Circulating Soluble-Klotho Levels Modestly Increase After Renal Transplantation.
Background: Klotho, a co-receptor for FGF23, is predominantly expressed in kidney and reported to have anti-oxidant and anti-fibrotic properties. Soluble-Klotho (sKl), the cleaved circulating protein,…2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Mortem Cannulation and NECMO Preservation for DCD Liver Transplantation.
Introduction: Herein, we present the short-term results of a controlled DCD liver transplantation program with pre-mortem cannulation and normothermic extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (NECMO) preservation.Material and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Increased Utilization of High Risk Deceased Donors with Share 35 Does Not Affect Outcomes in Liver Transplantation.
Background: Demand for livers from deceased donors exceeds supply after Share 35 in June 2013. This leads liver transplant centers to consider high risk deceased…2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Lung Transplant Patients Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in the Perioperative Period.
Cardiovascular Surger, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Objective As ECMO therapy is increasingly used to bridge high-risk patients with end-stage respiratory failure to lung transplantation, outcomes of this strategy employed in the…2016 American Transplant Congress
C3 Glomerulopathy Secondary to Complement Factor H Inhibition by Monoclonal Kappa Light Chains.
Background: Monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS) implies a causal relationship between clonal B cell proliferation and renal disease and is associated with high morbidity…
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