2019 American Transplant Congress
Monitoring And Management Of Proteinuria Is Often Ignored In Patients Receiving mTOR Therapy Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Use of mTOR inhibitors, such as Everolimus (EVL), in liver transplant (LT) patients continues to rise as the side effect profile becomes more evident.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Is Bariatric Surgery Feasible in the Setting of Liver and Kidney Transplants?
Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Bariatric surgery benefits obese patients by promoting weight loss, improving quality of life, and reducing morbidity and mortality rates. There is concern, however, that…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Liver Frailty Index is Associated with Current and Subsequent Disability in Liver Transplant Candidates
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The Liver Frailty Index (LFI) was developed to capture the effects of malnutrition and muscle wasting in patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation (LT).…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms among Donors on Organ Utilization
*Purpose: Though transplant guidelines recommend exercising caution when considering donor organs that may be infected or colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), the true impact of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Proton Pump Inhibitors versus Histamine-2-Receptor Antagonists on Clostridium difficile Rates in Liver Transplant Recipients
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA
*Purpose: To determine if there is a difference in 90 day Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) rates before and after the stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) protocol…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Economic Impact of Surgical Site Infections in Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Complications arising after liver transplantation result in additional healthcare costs. Previous studies have not evaluated the impact of surgical site infections on healthcare costs…2019 American Transplant Congress
Inhibition of TLR4 Mediated Programmed Necrosis Does Not Improve Graft Function and Histology in a Murine Kidney Transplant Model
*Purpose: Human Delayed Graft Function (DGF) is associated with upregulation of basolateral tubular TLR4 but whether TLR4 causes DGF is unknown. TLR4 has been shown…2019 American Transplant Congress
Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation Protects Bile Duct from Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: Ischemia-free liver transplantation (IFLT), based on normothermic machine perfusion and innovations in surgical technique, can provide continue blood supply from procurement to implantation that…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Negative Costimulatory Pd-1/pd-l1 Pathway Is Upregulated In Early Cell-mediated Rejection
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Extensive transcript analysis has been performed on grafts at the time of rejection, but gene expression preceding overt rejection is less well studied.*Methods: We…2019 American Transplant Congress
Metabolomic Study Of Sarcopenia In Patients Prior To Liver Transplantation
1Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Sarcopenia is defined as the loss of muscle mass, typically associated with aging, but frequently appearing in liver disease patients. In particular, sarcopenia present…
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