Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 75 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Short-Term Starvation Attenuates Liver Ischemia Reperfusion Injury by SIRT1-Autophagy Signaling in Mice.
J. Rao,¹ H. Zhou,¹ F. Zhang,¹ X. Wang,¹ Y. Zhai,² L. Lu.¹
¹Liver Transplantation Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; ²Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
Calorie restriction or starvation (fasting) has some beneficial effects on prolongation of life and increased resistance to stress. Calorie restriction has also been shown to…
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Evolution of Donor Nephrectomy: Long-Term Outcomes with Four Different Techniques Between 1963 and 2014 at a Single Institution.
O. Serrano,¹ A. Bangdiwala,² D. Vock,³ E. Minja,¹ A. Pugalendhi,¹ K. Yadav,¹ V. Kirchner,¹ W. Payne,¹ T. Dunn,¹ S. Chinnakotla,¹ E. Finger,¹ T. Pruett,¹ A. Matas,¹ R. Kandaswamy.¹
¹Surgery, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, Masonic Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN; ³Biostatistics, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
PURPOSE: The development of minimally-invasive approaches to donor nephrectomy (DN) has been primarily driven by the potential advantages it presents the donor. Questions remain over…
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The Effect of Families on Organ Donation Among Native Americans.
T. Bongiovanni,^1,3 J. Rawlings,² J. Trompeta.¹
¹Dept of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²CT Native American Tribal Council, New Haven, CT; ³Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CSP, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Background: Prevalence of end-stage renal disease is 3.5 times greater among the >2.5 million Native Americans (NAs) in the US than in Caucasians, due to…
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Protocol for Health Information Exchange Living Donor Cohort Discovery.
M. Henderson,¹ A. Roberts,² A. Massie,³ D. Segev,³ W. Goggins,¹ C. Stone,¹ B. Dixon.^1,2
¹Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; ²Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN; ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Health information exchange (HIE) is the sharing of clinical and administrative data across the boundaries of health care institutions, health data, repositories, and states that…
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A Novel Intra-Abdominal Cooling System Prevents Graft Warming During Implantation for Robotic-Assisted Renal Transplantation.
R. Meier, M. Hagen, C. Joliat, J.-B. Buchs, A. Nastasi, R. Ruttimann, F. Lazeyras, P. Morel, L. Bühler.
Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland.
Background and objectiveRobotic kidney transplantation is minimal invasive and leads to decreased surgical site infection. In this stetting, warm ischemia time remains a valid concern.…
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Preimplant Donor Histology Does Not Improve Discrimination of 5 Year Kidney Allograft Outcomes.
C. Traynor,¹ T. Dorman,² D. de Freitus,² P. Conlon,² C. O'Seaghdha.²
¹Nephrology, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC; ²Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Kidney transplantation remains the best treatment option for End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) and the most cost efficient method of renal replacement therapy. However, there is…
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Outcomes of Arterial and Venous Conduits for Vessel Reconstruction in Liver Transplantation.
J. Tan,¹ G. Oniscu.²
¹University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; ²Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Background: The use of hepatic artery (HA) and portal vein (PV) conduits is a recognised alternative technique in vessel reconstruction during liver transplantation. The hepatic…
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Caval Replacement versus Piggyback Liver Transplantation: The Toronto Experience.
A. Barbas, M. Dib, N. Goldaracena, M. Marquez, G. Sapisochin, D. Al-Adra, S. McCluskey, I. McGilvray.
General Surgery, Multi-Organ Transplant, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background:Caval replacement (CR) and piggyback (PB) techniques for deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) each have inherent advantages and disadvantages with no consensus on the optimal…
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Kidney Transplantation: Do Early Urinary Tract Complications Influence Long-Term Graft Survival?
E. Arpali, D. Kaufman, H. Sollinger.
Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of urological complications seen in the first year after the primary kidney transplant on long term outcomes.Patients and Methods: ESRD…
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Factors Affecting Mortality During Waiting Time for Kidney Transplantation: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study Using the Korean Network for Organ Sharing (KONOS) Database.
S. Lee,¹ K. Yoo,² J. An,³ Y. Oh,³ C. Lim,³ Y. Kim,¹ J. Lee.³
¹Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Dongguk University Medical Center, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea; ³Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Background: Longer waiting times for kidney transplant have been suggested to be more deleterious than shorter waiting times. We analyzed the impact of waiting time…