2019 American Transplant Congress
Bile Duct Anastomosis over Intraluminal Plastic Biliary Stent in Liver Transplant: Clinical Outcome
*Purpose: Biliary complications have been known as “Achilles Heel” of orthotropic liver transplantation (OLT) with high morbidity and mortality. Intra-luminal plastic biliary stents replacing T-tubes…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pulmonary Complications in Living Liver Donors
*Purpose: Due to the shortage of deceased donors, living donor liver transplantation has been the main treatment option for the end - stage liver disease.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact Of Donor And Recipient Race On Kidney Transplant Survivals Evaluated By The Physiochemically-calculated Hla Immunogenicity
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Graft survivals are inferior for African American (AA) patients in comparison to Caucasian (CAU) patients in the United States. We examined how donor and…2019 American Transplant Congress
C1q Dominant Deposits in Renal Transplant Biopsies Are Not Associated with Allograft Dysfunction
*Purpose: Complement deposition in renal allograft biopsies and native kidneys may represent an ongoing inflammatory process. We studied the significance of incidental finding of predominant…2019 American Transplant Congress
Recipient TIM4 Expression is Essential for Hepatocellular Function in Liver Transplantation
Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a major risk factor of early graft dysfunction and predisposes to rejection in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Previous studies…2019 American Transplant Congress
Postoperative Telemonitoring Following Kidney Transplantation: Effects on Early Hospital Readmissions and Graft Outcomes
University hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Telemonitoring has been recently shown to improve outcomes and reduce hospital admission rate in cardiac patients. We sought to study the effect of telemonitoring…2019 American Transplant Congress
Association Of Clinical Characteristics With Rate Of Kidney Transplant Function Decline In The 2 Years Prior To Allograft Loss
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: The rate of kidney transplant function decline prior to allograft loss has not been well characterized. Identifying demographic and clinical characteristics associated with slow…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Association of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at One Year Post-Kidney Transplant with Graft Loss is Not Modified by Delayed Graft Function
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: In kidney transplant recipients, eGFR at 1 year post-transplant has been shown to be associated with graft loss, but it is unclear if this…2019 American Transplant Congress
Better Health-Related Quality of Life in Kidney Transplant Patients over Time Compared with Those in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients at Similar Renal Function
*Purpose: Both kidney transplantation (KT) and pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients usually experience mental and physical burdens according to renal functional deterioration. However, change…2019 American Transplant Congress
Health Utility And Social Distress In Kidney Transplant (KT) Recipients
*Purpose: Preference-based measures of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) or health utility, such as the EuroQol-5D5L (EQ5), cover multiple health domains and are combined into…
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