Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 177 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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High Prevalence of New Onset Diabetes Mellitus in a Predominantly Minority Urban Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients and Clinical Outcomes
S. Aleksic, S. Zahedpour, E. Tsomos, M. Ajaimy, J. Zonszein, E. Akalin.
Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx.
Background: We aimed to determine the prevalence of new onset diabetes after transplant (NODAT) and its association with clinical outcomes in a cohort of predominantly…
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Sufficient Hepatic Artery Flow Redeems Poor Portal Vein Flow after Liver Transplantation in Patients with Porta Vein Thrombosis
L. Coromina Hernandez, K. Sasaki, D. Firl, J. McVey, M. Fujiki, F. Aucejo, B. Eghtesad, C. Quintini, C. Miller, K. Hashimoto.
General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Objective:Although portal vein thrombosis(PVT) in liver transplantation is no longer a contraindication, it remains technically challenging. Insufficient intraoperative PV flow after PV thrombectomy/reconstruction was reported…
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Platelet Counts as Predictors of Short- and Long-Term Outcomes in Liver Transplantation: Cassandras or Just Rats on a Sinking Ship?
I. Amygdalos,¹ Z. Czigany,¹ J. Böcker,¹ F. Meister,¹ M. Krebbers,¹ D. Morales Santana,¹ J. Bednarsch,¹ W. Schöning,¹ F. Ulmer,¹ G. Koek,³ D. Kroy,² F. Tacke,² C. Trautwein,² U. Neumann,¹ G. Lurje.¹
¹Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany; ²Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany; ³Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands.
BackgroundThrombocytopenia is associated with higher morbidity and mortality following partial hepatectomy and orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Here we investigated platelet counts (PC) as a predictor…
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Impact of Donation after Cardiac Death Allografts on Outcome Following Liver Transplantation for Fulminant Hepatic Failure: An Analysis of the UNOS Database
S. Kumar,¹ S. Lin,² J. Schold.²
¹Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Scarcity of donor organs in liver transplantation (LT) has necessitated consideration of extended criteria donors (ECDs), including donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors. The narrow…
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Donor Hepatectomy Time in Donation after Circulatory Death Donors is an Independent Risk Factor for the Development of Biliary Strictures and Early Graft Loss after Transplantation
O. van Leeuwen,¹ M. van Reeven,² M. Fujiyoshi,¹ V. de Meijer,¹ R. de Kleine,¹ M. de Boer,¹ J. de Jonge,² J. Ijzermans,² W. Polak,² R. Porte.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction: Liver transplantation (LT) from donors after circulatory death (DCD) is associated with an increased risk of non-anastomotic biliary strictures (NAS) and early graft loss…
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Most Pediatric Transplant Centers Are Underperforming and in Proximity to Higher Volume Centers
T. Nichols, A. Rana, J. Goss.
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Purpose. Many research studies have shown that low case volume has been associated with worse survival outcomes in each type of pediatric solid organ transplant.…
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Development of a Predictive Model for Deceased Donor Organ Yield
W. Marrero Colon,¹ M. Lavieri,¹ S. Guikema,¹ D. Hutton,² N. Parikh.³
¹Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ³Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Organ transplantation is a lifesaving intervention for patients with organ failure. However, there is a gap between the supply and demand of organs in the…
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Isolated Pancreas Transplantation: Does Rank List Position Matter for Imported Grafts?
J. Adler, R. Redfield, D. Kaufman, J. Odorico.
Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
INTRODUCTION: Pancreata are frequently not recovered or are discarded, resulting in a very low national utilization (~15%). There are many reasons why a transplant center…
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Waiting List Outcomes for Patients Registered for Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation
V. Surendrakumar,^1,2 J. Richards,^1,2 M. Hossain,² G. Pettigrew.^1,2
¹Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; ²Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
IntroductionSimultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation (SPK) offers a survival advantage to diabetic kidney patients over deceased donor renal transplantation alone. Whereas outcomes for SPK transplantation…
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Early Predictors of Metabolic Outcomes in TPIAT
M. Kanak,¹ Y. Shindo,¹ M. Levy.^1,2
¹Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ²Hume-Lee Transplant Center, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA.
BackgroundTotal Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto-transplantation (TPIAT) has been actively performed on patients with severe, debilitating pain of chronic pancreatitis or recurrent acute pancreatitis. It is…