2019 American Transplant Congress
Absence of Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Allografts from Morbidly Obese Donors: A Marker for Success?
Surgery (Division of Surgical Transplantation), UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Livers from African-American, morbidly obese donors are less likely to be discarded. We examined the utility of pre-recovery liver biopsy as a predictive biomarker…2019 American Transplant Congress
Expansion Of The Use Of Left Lobe Grafts In Adult Liver Transplantation In The United States: Different Strategy Between Deceased And Living Donor Grafts
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Left-lobe grafts are underused for adult liver transplantation in the United States. Better strategy is needed to expand the use of left lobe in…2019 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Discarded Human Liver Quality with Normothermic Ex-Vivo Liver Perfusion
Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Normothermic Ex-vivo Liver Perfusion (NELP) of livers shows promising results in overcoming injuries that occur in deceased donor liver transplantation. The effect of NELP…2019 American Transplant Congress
An International Comparison of Kidney Utilization in the United States and United Kingdom: What Can Be Learned?
1UNOS, Richmond, VA, 2NHS, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: International discussions in 2017 about kidney “discard rates” between transplant (TX) professionals in the US and UK led to the realization that the two…2019 American Transplant Congress
Effectiveness Of The Vittal Viability Criteria During Ex Situ Normothermic Machine Perfusion To Discriminate Hepatobiliary Organ Injury And Investigation Of Biochemical Markers For Post-transplant Complications
Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The VITTAL (viability testing and transplantation of marginal livers) clinical trial demonstrated that ex situ end-ischaemic normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) allows functional assessment and…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Acute Kidney Injury on GFR at 1 Year
*Purpose: GFR 1-year after kidney transplantation is a marker for long term graft survival. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Acute Kidney Injury in Elderly Deceased Donor on the Post-Transplant Clinical Outcomes
*Purpose: The proportion of kidney transplantation (KT) from deceased donors (DDs) with acute kidney injury (AKI) or aged more than 60 has increased, but it…2019 American Transplant Congress
Risk Predictive Strategy to Expand Pancreas Donor Selection
*Purpose: The discrepancy between the number of patients on the waiting list and the number of donor pancreata for transplantation needs extension of accepting criteria…2019 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms among Solid Organ Transplant Donors
*Purpose: Transplant guidelines recommend exercising caution when considering donor organs that may be infected or colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Approaches to identifying such potentially…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Extremely Prolonged Cold Ischemia Time in Combination with AKI on Kidney Transplantation Outcome – A Single Center Experience
*Purpose: Donor kidneys with prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT) and acute kidney injury (AKI) are often rejected on the view they do not achieve successful…
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