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Articles tagged "Heart transplant patients"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    A Novel National Program to Maximize Utilization of Lung and Heart Allografts from Donors After Brain Death (DBD) and Donors After Circulatory Death (DCD) for Transplantation

    W. Hassanein, N. Dang, A. Hassanein, S. Brann, S. LaFrancesca, S. Reddy, M. Al Salihi, T. Khayal

    Transmedics, Andover, MA

    *Purpose: To build a national network of dedicated cardiothoracic surgical procurement and Organ Care System (OCS™) ex-vivo perfusion clinical experts to: Maximize cardiothoracic donor organ…
  • 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

    Clinical Use of the SIPAT Score in a Large Heart Transplant Program

    S. Kim, M. Kittleson, J. Patel, N. Patel, T. Singer-Englar, D. Chang, E. Kransdorf, A. Huynh, L. Olanisa, M. Olman, J. A. Kobashigawa

    Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: The Stanford Integrated Psycosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) score predicts outcome after heart transplantation (HTx). Compliance with medications and clinic visits are important leading…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Pre-Transplant Evaluation of Patients Undergoing Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation and Correlation with Explant Pathology

    A. Shingina1, J. N. Menachem1, S. Brown1, I. A. Ziogas2, W. K. Wu3, M. J. Izzy4, J. Liang1, K. Washington1, S. Alexopoulos5

    1Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 3Thoracic Surgery; Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 4GI and Hepatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 5Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: Fontan-associated liver disease (FALD) is a well-described complication of Fontan physiology. More patients with failing Fontan are being evaluated for heart transplant and evidence-based…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Allograft Discard Risk Index for Heart Transplantation

    R. M. Reul1, A. A. Saleem1, C. N. Keller1, T. H. Malik1, J. A. Goss2, A. A. Rana2

    1Office of Student Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: The number of patients awaiting heart transplantation (HTx) substantially exceeds the number of donor hearts transplanted each year, yet nearly 70% of consented donor…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of HLA Antibody Surveillance Protocol in Heart Transplant Patients – A Single-Center Retrospective Analysis

    S. S. Patlolla, V. Bhattad, S. McKean, M. Askar, S. Hall

    Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: Post-transplant care is multifaceted with protocols to provide oversight and maintain the standard of care. While institutional protocols for post-transplant HLA antibody surveillance after…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Biopsy as a Predictor in Risk Stratification for Heart Transplant Candidates

    S. Tolia1, T. Al Saadi1, N. Narang2, A. Joshi2, C. Sciamanna2, S. Pauwaa2, G. Macaluso2, M. Dia2, A. Tatooles3, P. Pappas3, W. Cotts2, A. Andrade2

    1Internal Medicine, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL, 2Cardiology, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL, 3Cardiovascular Surgery, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL

    *Purpose: Patients undergoing workup for Orthotopic Heart Transplant (OHT) undergo multi-organ evaluation for risk stratification. While cirrhosis is a known predictor of poor outcomes in…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of a Pharmacist in an Outpatient Heart Transplant Clinic

    A. Prom1, D. Ricciuti1, J. Newman2, C. Doligalski1

    1UNC Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC, 2Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC

    *Purpose: Data describing the impact of a pharmacist in ambulatory medication management of heart transplant recipients (HTRs) is lacking. Following the addition of an ambulatory…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Significance of Repeated 1r Rejections in Heart Transplantation

    C. Hsueh1, L. Wilson2, L. Bow2, L. Bellumkonda2

    1Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

    *Purpose: 1R rejection is commonly seen in routine post-transplant biopsies. While presence of occasional 1R rejection is not considered to be detrimental, the significance of…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Combined Heart-liver Transplantation in Patients with Familial Amyloidosis – Analysis of Optn/Unos Database

    A. Sharma, A. Sickels, B. Ruch, M. Carli, M. Levy

    Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: We compared the outcomes after combined heart-liver transplant (CHLT) for patients with Familial Amyloidosis (FA) versus other indications (primary cardiac:congenital heart disease and idiopathic…
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