Articles tagged "Graft failure"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes After Right Kidney Living Donor Transplant Are Associated With Center Volume
R. Reed, P. MacLennan, B. Shelton, D. Sonnier, M. Hanaway, J. Goodman, C. Young, M. Deierhoi, J. Locke.
Surgery/Transplantation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Background: Right kidney living donor transplant (RKLDT) is a high-risk, low-volume procedure that is associated with increased risk for early graft failure. It is unclear…
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…