2021 American Transplant Congress
Intensivist-Performed Transesophageal Echocardiography as a Screen for Organ Donation: A Four-Year, Single-Center Experience
*Purpose: Echocardiography is required for deceased heart donation, and transthoracic echocardiography is the traditional practice. At our institution, intensivists perform transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and since…2020 American Transplant Congress
Novel Mechanism of Immune Evasion by Human Neonatal Cardiac Progenitor Cells Recovers Ailing Myocardium in Rat Myocardial Infarct Model
Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Immune rejection of transplanted stem/progenitor cells is a major stumbling block in designing effective therapy for myocardial infarction (MI). Human neonatal cardiac progenitor cells…2020 American Transplant Congress
Accuracy Of Agitated Saline Contrast Echocardiography For Assessment Of Intracardiac Shunting In Preoperative Liver Transplant Patients
*Purpose: Liver Transplant (LT) is a high-risk surgery that requires careful pre-op screening for cardiovascular disease. Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) is a common cardiac condition…2019 American Transplant Congress
Post-Liver Transplant Atrial Fibrillation is Associated with Markedly Reduced Short- and Long-Term Patient Survival
*Purpose: Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is the most common perioperative cardiac arrhythmia. Data regarding POAF following liver transplant (LT) is scarce. In the immediate post-LT…2019 American Transplant Congress
Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography is a Poor Predictor of Clinically Significant Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant Evaluation
*Purpose: Given the high incidence of major cardiac events in the first year post-liver transplantation (LT) (>30%), the aim of this study was to determine…2019 American Transplant Congress
Prognostic Value Of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography In Heart Transplantation Recipients
Division of Cardiology/ JC Walter Jr. Transplant Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) carries a class IIa recommendation in the ISHLT guidelines for screening of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). Positive DSEs have a…2019 American Transplant Congress
Redefining Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy; A Shifting Paradigm
*Purpose: Diastolic dysfunction (DD) is the hallmark of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM) for which criteria were established in 2005. Based on those criteria, the prevalence of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Analyzing The Effect Of Liver Transplantation On Myocardial Strain Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography In Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) Patients
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is currently the second most common indication for liver transplant in the United States and is projected to increase in the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Speckle Echo Pre and Post Kidney Transplant: A Pilot Study
*Purpose: Relative to dialysis, cardiovascular (CV) mortality improves with transplantation. Nevertheless, CV disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death for kidney transplant recipients (KTR),…2019 American Transplant Congress
Timing Matters: Improving Prediction of Hospital Readmission Post Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Hospital readmission rates after kidney transplant (KTx) are high and readmission is associated with graft failure and mortality. Predictive models of post-transplant readmission have…
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