2019 American Transplant Congress
Favorable Waitlist Outcomes in Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease in the MELD-Na Era
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a common indication for liver transplantation. Patients with ALD are often required to be abstinent for a period of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Staged Procedure In Simultaneous Liver And Kidney Transplant -the “Swedish” Experience
Transplant Surgery, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: As many as 30% of liver transplant candidates have renal insufficiency requiring a combined liver and kidney transplantation. The prolonged and complex simultaneous liver-kidney…2019 American Transplant Congress
Utility Of SIPAT Scoring System In Predicting Risk Of Recidivism In Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease.
*Purpose: The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) score is a comprehensive tool that was developed to standardize pretransplant psychosocial evaluations and has been…2019 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Incidence and Transplantation of Individuals Listed with Alcoholic Liver Disease
*Purpose: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) has recently become the most common indication for liver transplantation in the US; it is important to characterize changes in…2019 American Transplant Congress
ALcohol Relapse after Liver Transplantation
Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
*Purpose: Alcoholic liver disease is a very common diagnosis among the patient’s population referred for liver transplantation. There are a number of different evaluation criteria…2019 American Transplant Congress
Restrictive Medicaid Policies Reduce Access to Liver Transplant for Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
*Purpose: Medicaid policies requiring specific documentation of abstinence (e.g. 6 months) and/or rehabilitation for financial coverage of liver transplant (LT) for alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD)…2019 American Transplant Congress
Alcohol Recidivism In Liver Transplant Recipients With Alcoholic Liver Disease: Does Six-months Abstinence Rule Still Holds True?
1UTHSC, Memphis, TN, 2University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Liver transplant for alcoholic liver disease (ALD) continues to be a challenge for transplant centers, particularly related to the ethical dilemma of transplanting or…2019 American Transplant Congress
Patterns and Predictors of Alcohol Use after Early Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Hepatitis
*Purpose: ACCELERATE-AH is a multicenter consortium studying early liver transplant (LT) for alcoholic hepatitis (AH). To inform surveillance and intervention strategies for post-LT alcohol use,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Higher Early Post-Liver Transplant Mortality in Recipients with Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis versus Alcoholic Cirrhosis
INTRODUCTIONThe American Consortium of Early Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis (ACCELERATE-AH) is a multicenter cohort from 8 UNOS regions studying early liver transplant (LT) for…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease: Data from the A2ALL Study
Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
The literature on living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is primarily from single Asian centers. We investigated LDLT outcomes for ALD…
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