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Articles tagged "Graft failure"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Does Higher Cost Improve Outcome in Pediatric Liver Transplantation?

    J. Minneman, J. Grijalva, S. Rangel, H. Kim, K. Vakili.

    Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.

    Examine the relationship between transplant-related total cost and 1-year graft failure and patient mortality rate for liver transplantation at freestanding children's hospitals.Using the Pediatric Health…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Association of Pulmonary Hypertension at Kidney Transplant Evaluation and Subsequent Outcomes Following Transplantation

    Y.-L. Lai,1 H. Wasse,2 W. Kim,3 R. Patzer.1,4

    1Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; 2Division of Nephrology/Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 3Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; 4Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

    Background - Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is common among patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) who depend on dialysis before transplant, and PH is associated…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Histology of Renal Allografts With DGF Provides Limited Prognostic Information

    S. Balasubramanian,1 A. Cherukuri,2 P. Prasad,1 R. Baker.1

    1Transplantation, Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom; 2University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

    DGF has been shown to be associated with adverse graft outcomes in renal transplantation. However DGF is heterogeneous histologically and the impact of various histological…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Center Volume Is Associated With Early Graft Failure After Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

    B. Shelton, P. MacLennan, R. Reed, D. Sonnier, M. Hanaway, J. Goodman, C. Young, M. Deierhoi, J. Locke.

    Surgery/Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

    Introduction: The correlation between center volume and outcomes has been established within general surgery and is most pronounced within the context of high-risk, low-volume procedures.…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Age-Specific Graft Failure Rates in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients

    B. Foster,1 M. Dahhou,1 X. Zhang,1 V. Dharnidharka,2 J. Conway,3 V. Ng.4

    1Pediatrics, Research Institute of the McGill Univ. Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2Pediatrics, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, Central African Republic; 3Pediatrics, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 4Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Center, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Graft failure risk peaks during emerging adulthood (18-25 y) in kidney transplant recipients. The association between age and graft failure risk in liver transplant recipients…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Timing of Pregnancy and Risk of Kidney Allograft Failure

    C. Rose, O. Johnston, A. Mehrotra, C. Kennedy, T. Myint, E. Hendren, J. Gill, J. Gill.

    Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

    The optimal timing of pregnancy after kidney transplantation remains uncertain. In this analysis of 23,981 female first-kidney only transplant recipients of child-bearing age (15-45 years),…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    A Distinct Glomerular Complement Deposition Pattern in Transplant Glomerulopathy

    P. Verghese, R. Reed, A. Matas, Y. Kim.

    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

    While many patients with transplant glomerulopathy (TG) have donor-specific antibodies, the lack of C4d deposition in the peritubular capillaries (ptc-C4d) in some cases has caused…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Microbiota and Its Contribution for the Development of Primary Graft Dysfunction Following Human Lung Transplantation

    Z. Xu,1 R. Schuessler,1 N. Steward,1 R. Hachem,2 E. Trulock,2 A. Patterson,1 D. Kreisel,1 T. Mohanakumar.1

    1Surgery, Washington Univ Sch of Med, St. Louis, MO; 2Medicine, Washington Univ Sch of Med, St. Louis, MO.

    Background: The microbiome of the donor lung will be imported to the recipient, and its role in allograft immunity remains speculative. The aims of this…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Can Post-Transplant C-Peptide Be Used as an Indicator of Pancreas Graft Failure?

    R. Carrico,1 J. Fridell,2 J. Odorico,3 R. Stratta,4 K. Tyler,1 S. Niederhaus,5 R. Kandaswamy,6 J. Fisher,7 O. Olaitan,8 M. Mujtaba.2

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA; 2Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; 3Univ Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI; 4Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC; 5Univ of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD; 6Univ of MN Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; 7Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA; 8Rush Univ Medical Center, Chicago, IL.

    Background: The OPTN Pancreas Transplantation Committee is attempting to define pancreas graft failure and performed a study to determine if C-peptide corresponds to pancreas graft…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Preoperative MELD Score On Small for Size Syndrome in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

    S. Marubashi, A. Tomokuni, Y. Tomimaru, T. Asaoka, H. Wada, H. Eguchi, K. Umeshita, Y. Doki, M. Mori, H. Nagano.

    Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.

    Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been expanded worldwide and the outcome of even adult-to-adult LDLT using left lobe reported to be equivalent to that…
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