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,…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)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Trends in Young Adults: Silent Alcohol Epidemic
1Gastroenterology, USF, Tampa; 2Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Medical Group, Tampa.
With the introduction of effective antiviral therapy for HCV, there is a paradigm shift in liver disease with a decline in HCV but a parallel…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis: Is Early Always Necessary?
Aim: Prior studies have demonstrated liver transplantation (LT) as a viable option for patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH) who fail steroid treatment. These studies…
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