2017 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors and Outcomes of Intracardiac Thrombosis During Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Introduction: Intracardiac Thrombosis (ICT) during Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (OLT) is an uncommon event associated with high mortality. The incidence of ICT during OLT is estimated…2017 American Transplant Congress
De-Novo Portal Vein Thrombosis After Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT) Does Not Impact on Long-Term Outcome.
Portal vein thrombosis(PVT) after deceased donation has been widely described as a liver transplant complication that can lead to graft failure, high morbidity and mortality.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes After Lung Transplant: Being a Teenager Does Not Stop at Age 18.
Recipient age at lung transplantation impacts survival. Adolescent recipients grouped by legal age definition (12-18) have been shown across all types of solid organ transplantation…2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Combined Liver/Lung Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis Using SRTR Analysis.
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic multi-system disease affecting approximately 1 in every 2500 newborns globally. Pulmonary transplantation is indicated in patients with severe bronchiectasis and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Biliary Complications in Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis: A Single-Center Experience with Choledochocholedochostomy.
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
BackgroundFor adult liver transplants, choledochocholedochostomy or “duct-to-duct” biliary reconstruction is the standard of care. In contrast to a Roux-en-Y reconstruction, it maintains physiologic bile flow,…2017 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Operations at a Service of the Transplant Surgery.
IntroductionInvolvement of bariatric operations in the peri-transplant setting could be at different stages – prospective living organ donor (group 1), prospective organ recipient (2), patients…2017 American Transplant Congress
Binding of Human Neutrophils to Activated Porcine Endothelium Is Mediated by E-Selectin.
1University of Maryland SOM, Baltimore; 2GlycoMimetics, Inc, Rockville; 3Revivicor, Inc, Blacksburg
Purpose: Shortage of transplantable human organs motivates research into alternatives, including xenotransplantation. When porcine lungs are perfused with human blood, a majority of human neutrophils…2017 American Transplant Congress
Improved Mouse Renal Transplantation Model Simulating Clinical Antibody Mediated Rejection.
Background: Acute antibody mediated rejection (AMR) is main barrier to long term renal graft survival. Mouse model is important to understand the mechenisms of AMR.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor Families' Perspectives of the Harms of Failed Donation After Circulatory Death: A Qualitative Analysis.
Introduction: We sought to identify harms perceived by families of patients who underwent an unsuccessful attempt to donate organs after circulatory death.Methods: We identified a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Performance of Unilateral Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants.
1Columbia Univ, New York, NY; 2Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA
Purpose:The fraction of kidneys procured for transplant that are discarded is rising in the United States. Identifying donors from whom only one kidney was discarded…
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