Articles tagged "Heart failure"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Early Post Transplant Cardiac Dysfunction After Liver Transplantation
V. Subramanian¹, K. Bowers², H. Kalagotla², J. Buggs¹, N. Kemmer¹, K. Dhanireddy¹
¹Transplant Institute, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Cardiovascular complications after liver transplantation (LTx) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The goal of this study was to evaluate risk factors…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation for Failing Fontan Physiology: A Large Single Center Comparative Analysis
C. J. Rosenthal¹, D. Noguchi¹, J. A. Aboulhosn², G. S. Van Arsdell³, A. Nsair⁴, M. Ha¹, L. Reardon², G. Lluri⁴, J. P. Lin⁴, S. Saab¹, A. Baird¹, R. S. Venick¹, D. G. Farmer¹, F. M. Kaldas¹
¹Liver and Pancreas Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cardiac Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Cardiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The rate of combined heart-liver transplantation (HLT) has tripled in the last decade, and continues to rise along with the number of patients with…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Ventricular Modeling Following Bariatric Surgery Decreases Need for Heart Transplantation
R. Choudhury¹, A. Rouhi², G. Hoeltzel³, Y. Bababekov¹, A. Suarez-Pierre⁴, A. Yule¹, N. Vigneshwar⁴, N. Williams⁵, K. Dumon², T. Nydam¹
¹Transplantation Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ²General Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³General Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ⁵General Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: For obese patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), aggressive weight loss has been associated with ventricular remodeling. Many have suggested offering bariatric surgery for…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Direct Central Ambulatory Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Double Lung Transplantation without Graft Reduction with Extreme Mediastinal Shift
A. Gorton¹, S. Keshavamurthy²
¹Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: Double Lung transplantation in the presence of extreme mediastinal shift can be technically challenging due to donor sizing and recipient factors.*Methods: We present the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Allogenic Cardiac Progenitor Cells Transplantation with Immune Suppressant Cyclosporine a Recovers Myocardial Infarction in Rodent Model
M. Gunasekaran, R. Mishra, S. Sharma, P. Saha, L. Chen, S. Guru, A. Stefanowicz, A. Bilewska, S. Zarinebaf, G. Zhi-Dong, S. Kaushal
Pediatrics, Lurie Childrens Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) are well-characterized stem cell type shown to potentiate cardiac regeneration in myocardial infarct (MI) model. However, auto and allo immune…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Cd47 Expression on Transplanted Human Neonatal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Inhibits Phagocytosis in Rat Myocardial Infarction Model
M. Gunasekaran, R. Mishra, S. Sharma, P. Saha, L. Chen, S. Guru, A. Stefanowicz, A. Bilewska, S. Zarinebaf, G. Zhi-Dong, S. Kaushal
Lurie Childrens Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Immune rejection of transplanted stem/progenitor cells is a major stumbling block in designing effective therapy for myocardial infarction (MI). Human neonatal mesenchymal stem cells…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in Candidate Listing Behavior Under the New Heart Allocation Policy
G. Ran¹, K. Chung¹, A. S. Anderson², R. Gibbons³, N. Narang⁴, M. Churpek⁵, W. F. Parker¹
¹Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Medicine, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antoion, TX, ³Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁴Department of Medicine, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁵Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Describe and explain variations in listing practice among U.S. transplant centers in response to the new allocation policy.*Methods: We performed an observational cohort study…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous Heart-Liver-Kidney Transplantation Survival: National and Single-Center Outcomes
U. A. Siddiqi¹, P. S. Combs¹, G. Kim², T. Baker³, Y. Becker¹, V. Jeevanandam¹
¹Section of Cardiac Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Section of Cardiology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Simultaneous Heart-Liver-Kidney transplantation (SHLKTx) is an incredibly rare, high-risk operation undergone by well-selected patients presenting with multi-organ failure. Our center has performed 10 of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
An Unexpected Case of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) Overlooked Pretransplant, but Then Diagnosed Early After Kidney Transplant with a Negative Patient Outcome: A Case Report
W. Hoffman, M. Waybill, H. Yang, D. Ladie, M. Singh
UPMC Pinnacle Transplant, Harrisburg, PA
*Purpose: ATTR-CM is underrecognized and commonly overlooked and undiagnosed. When found it is often a late diagnosis in patients with severe left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)…
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The Seattle Heart Failure Model is a Predictor of Mortality After Kidney Transplant in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease and Heart Impairment
A. Perez-Gutierrez¹, P. J. Bachul², D. N. Danz³, B. Juengel², M. Josephson², J. Fung², P. Witkowski², B. Chung⁴, Y. Becker²
¹Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, IL, ²Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, IL, ⁴Cardiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of mortality after kidney transplantation. Many patients with ESRD have heart failure that is attributed to fluid overload.…

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