2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Accepting Kidneys of Varying Quality for Transplantation or Expedited Placement with Decision Trees
Underutilization of marginal-quality kidney-organs for transplantation has occupied the community and led to introducing the idea of expediting the placement of kidneys for populations at…2018 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Methenamine Hippurate for the Prevention of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients: A Single Center, Retrospective Study
Background: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are common in renal transplant recipients (RTR). Methenamine hippurate is a non-antibiotic drug that inhibits bacterial growth in the bladder…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Effects of Age-Adjusted Marriage Duration on Graft Outcomes in Spousal Donor Kidney Transplantation
It is well known that graft survival rate in spousal donor kidney transplantation (SKT) is similar to that of living related donor kidney transplantation (LRKT)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Graft Function in Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI.
Purpose: To compare and evaluate 5-year outcomes of graft function for younger (Y) versus elderly (E) kidney transplant recipients (KTR).Introduction: As the number of elderly…2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Acute Kidney Injury after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Using a Recurrent Neural Network
In patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is up to 60%. Prediction of the individual patient's risk of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Postoperative Immunological Profiles of Adult ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients
Background: Adult ABO-incompatible (ABOi) living donor liver transplantation has been performed for acute liver failure or end stage liver diseases when deceased liver allografts or…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Preserved Collateral Veins on Small-for-Size Grafts in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
Purpose: Graft size is a critical issue in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). We hypothesized that too much portal flow could possibly be diverted into…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation Post Gastric Bypass: Surgical Complications and Outcomes
Transplant Surgery, Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC.
Introduction: Liver transplantation in patients with prior gastric bypass poses a unique challenge and may increase the risk of complications.Aim: To characterize surgical complications in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Patients with CPRA>99.95% Likely to Be Offered Deceased Donor Kidneys
Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA.
The implementation of the new kidney allocation system and priority of kidneys for cPRA=100% subjects revealed a hierarchy difference in allocation to patients with cPRA=99.45%-100%.…2018 American Transplant Congress
GDF15 Preventing Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
1University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; 2Jilin University, ChangChun, China.
Rationale: Ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury still remains one of main causes of early renal dysfunction in kidney transplantation. There are no effective treatments for preventing…
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