Articles tagged "Graft survival"

2020 American Transplant Congress
The Prognostic Impacts of Recipient Gender in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
K. Sasaki, M. Sanghvi, M. Fujiki, T. Diago Uso, B. Eghtesad, C. Quintini, C. MIller, K. Hashimoto, C. D. Kwon, F. Aucejo
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is significantly male predominant cancer. Sex hormonal signal is considered to play some roles, although exact underlying mechanisms are not fully…
2020 American Transplant Congress
One Organ Procurement Organization Coordinates 43% of All Uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death Donors Recovered in the United States Over 24 Years
R. D. Hasz, S. M. West, H. M. Nathan
Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: An IOM report published in 2006 estimated that 22,000 potential uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death (uDCDD) donors die each year in the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Post-Transplant Outcomes in Living and Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Analysis of UNOS Registry
T. Kitajima¹, D. Moonka², S. Yeddula¹, M. Rizzari¹, K. Collins¹, A. Yoshida¹, M. S. Abouljoud¹, S. Nagai¹
¹Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Because of possible short waiting time, living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for HCC may provide survival benefit compared to deceased donor LT (DDLT). This…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Does Donor Terminal, Admission or Best Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate Predicts Kidney Transplantation Outcomes
G. Irish¹, T. Coates², P. Clayton²
¹Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia, ²Central and Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Services, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
*Purpose: When assessing deceased kidney donors, a key factor is donor kidney function. It is unclear whether terminal, admission, or the best of terminal and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Outcomes of Pancreas Transplantation from Pediatric Donors: A Single Center Experience
J. Choi, Y. Ko, H. Kwon, S. Shin, Y. Kim, D. Han
Division of Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: For increasing pancreas donor pool, the use of pediatric donors for pancreas transplantation is considered as a suitable option. However, the following questions still…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Photobiomodulation Therapy Combined with Short-Term Immunosuppressants Prolonged Allotransplant Survival in a Rodent Hind-Limb Model
Y. Kuo¹, C. Chen², R. Chen², Y. Li²
¹Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ²Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery,, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
*Purpose: Photobiomodulation has been applied for accelerating the skeletal muscle repair process. Our formal study demonstrated vitamin D could be involved in allograft survival and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Short Recipient Warm Ischemia Time Improves Graft Survival in Liver Transplantation from Donation after Brain Death: 20-Year Experience of Liver Transplantation
A. Al-Kurd, T. Kitajima, K. Delvecchio, A. M. Elsabbagh, S. Yeddula, M. Rizzari, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Although the correlation between warm ischemia time (WIT) and the outcomes of liver transplantation has been extensively studied, few investigations have focused on the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
End-Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion after Static Cold Storage versus Static Cold Storage Alone in Kidneys from Extended Criteria Brain-Dead Donors: An International Randomized Controlled Trial
P. Husen¹, C. Boffa², I. Jochmans³, C. Krikke⁴, L. Davies², H. Hofker⁴, J. Pirenne³, R. Ploeg², A. Paul¹
¹General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, ²Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁴University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
*Purpose: A prospective, randomized, single-blinded, multicenter trial comparing the effect of short-term 'in house' oxygenated hypothermic machine preservation (End-HMPO2) following static cold storage (SCS) versus…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Significance of Donor Gender on Graft Survival and Histological Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Liver Transplant Patients
T. Ito, S. Kageyama, K. J. Dery, K. Nakamura, S. M. Younan, M. M. Lu, J. DiNorcia III, V. G. Agoian, H. Yersis, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, F. M. Kaldas
Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Experimental animal models have demonstrated improved ability of females (F) to recover from ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) compared with males (M). Recent work combining human…
2020 American Transplant Congress
NASH is the Leading Indication for Liver Transplantation in Elderly Patients
J. A. Steggerda¹, J. Yang², V. Sundaaram², N. Alkouri³, W. Ayoub², I. K. Kim¹, M. Noureddin²
¹Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²Hepatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³Gastroenterology, University of Texas Health- San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an increasingly prevalent cause of end-stage liver disease (ESLD) and indication for liver transplantation (LT) in the United States and…