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Articles tagged "Age factors"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Ethnic and Age Disparities in Outcomes among Liver Transplant Waitlist Candidates

    M. Mustian,1 S. Gray,1 B. Shelton,1 R. Reed,1 P. MacLennan,1 J. White,1 D. Eckhoff,1 R. Allman,2 J. Locke.1

    1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; 2Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC.

    Background: Despite the increasing prevalence of end-stage liver disease (ESLD) in older adults, there is no consensus to determine suitability for liver transplantation (LT) in…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Functional Assessment of Kidney Transplant Candidates with the 6 Minute Walk Test and Hand Grip Strength

    S. Anand,1 S. Gilligan,2 D. Morris,1 T. Srinivas.

    1Transplant Nephrology, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray; 2University of Utah, Murray, UT.

    Background: The 6 minute walk test distance (6MWT) and Isometric hand grand grip strength (HGS) have been studied in various settings as objective measures of…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Age-Specific Effects of Tacrolimus Are Associated to Specific Changes of T Cell Metabolism

    Y. Nian, T. Heinbokel, K. Minami, R. Abdi, A. Elkhal, S. Tullius.

    Transplant Surgery Research Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.

    Background: Energy metabolism of immune cells has been identified as critical in driving alloimmunity. While metabolic capacities change with aging, aspects linking age, immunosuppression, and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    When Does Donor Age Matter? A Review of over 70,000 Liver Transplants

    D. Yoeli, E. Pan, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana.

    Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    Background: Past studies on donor age in liver transplantation have largely relied on binary groups (i.e., young vs. old) with arbitrarily defined cut-offs. The aim…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Host Factors and Clinical Spectrum of Adenovirus Infection in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation: A Closer Look at the Infant, the Toddler and the Child

    C. Del Valle Mojica, S. Chen, H. Gans.

    Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

    Adenovirus (AdV) is increasingly recognized in solid organ transplants (SOT), with reported mortality exceeding 50%. Characterization of AdV infection in the pediatric SOT population is…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Single Center Transition of Care Model from Pediatric Heart Recipients to Adult Services Ongoing Study Model

    S. Adams, M. Wigger.

    Heart Transplant, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN.

    This is an ongoing look at designing a pediatric to adult transition model and lessons learned over time. It has been shown that the first…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Pilot Study of Health IT Feasibility and Impact on Quality of Life for Young Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients

    C. Blosser, R. Katz, J. Himmelfarb, N. Bansal.

    Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

    Background: Young adult kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are an at-risk population and long-term survival rates are significantly lower than expected. A large majority of young…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Continuous Debate of Older Donors into Older Recipients: Another Angle

    J. Patel, M. Kittleson, E. Kransdorf, S. Dimbil, R. Levine, D. Geft, D. Chang, L. Czer, J. Kobashigawa.

    Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

    Purpose: Heart transplantation (HTx) remains limited by donor availability. Many programs accept older donors (≥50 yrs) for older recipients (≥ 60 yrs) in an effort…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors and Sequelae of Post-KT Delirium

    M. McAdams DeMarco, A. Mountford, F. Warsame, R. Berkowitz, H. Ying, C. Haugen, D. Brennan, D. Segev.

    JHU, Baltimore.

    Background: Delirium is the acute decline in cognitive function following a noxious insult like surgery. Previous studies in other surgical settings have identified frailty and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Increased Length of Stay of the Donor Decreases Heart Transplant Recipient Survival

    H. Copeland,1 R. Talluri,2 A. Panos,1 R. Cochran,1 L. Creswell,1 D. Baran.3

    1Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 2Biostatistics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; 3Cardiology, Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA.

    Purpose: We hypothesize that the longer the cardiac donor is in the hospital prior to procurement, the worse the heart transplant (tx) recipient outcome for…
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