Articles tagged "Heart"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Guideline Adherence for Secondary Prevention of Stroke and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease among Liver Transplant Recipients
P. T. Campbell¹, M. Kosirog¹, S. Montag², S. Connolly¹, A. Daud³, A. Das¹, S. Pine¹, D. Finn³, J. Levitsky¹, J. L. Holl⁴, D. M. Lloyd-Jones⁵, L. B. VanWagner⁶
¹Division of GI and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Center for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Department of Pediatrics and Center for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁵Departments of Preventive Medicine and Medicine-Cardiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁶Division of GI and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Data about provider adherence to clinical practice guidelines for secondary prevention of stroke and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) among liver transplant recipients (LTRs), which…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Disparities in Heart Transplant Rates
M. Kosztowski, S. Yu, A. Kilic, A. Massie, S. Zhou, D. Segev, S. Gentry
JHU, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: One of the motivations for the recent changes to the heart allocation policy was to reduce geographic disparities. We investigated whether heart transplant (HT)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Analyzing The Effect Of Liver Transplantation On Myocardial Strain Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography In Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) Patients
A. Chhatriwala, M. Lam, E. Kim, S. Raissi, N. Mazumder, J. Thomas, H. Maddur, M. Rinella
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is currently the second most common indication for liver transplant in the United States and is projected to increase in the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors to Define an Extended Criteria Donor Heart Do Not Appear to Have Cumulative Adverse Effects after Heart Transplantation
M. Olymbios, S. Dimbil, R. J. Levine, F. Esmailian, J. Patel, J. A. Kobashigawa
Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: There remains a disparity between the number of patients awaiting heart transplantation (HTx) and the availability of donor hearts. This is exacerbated by relatively…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Cardiac Risk Assessment in Kidney Transplant Candidates: Clinical Usefulness of Different Guidelines
A. Velioglu¹, S. Mehdiyev¹, H. Arikan¹, E. Asicioglu¹, A. Cincin², S. Tuglular¹
¹Nephrology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Cardiology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
*Purpose: Despite cardiovascular (CV) assessment recommended all kidney transplant recipients to minimize perioperative risk, the utility and reliability of various assessments are not well established.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Local IL-33 Regulates Heart Transplant Infiltrating Myeloid Cells Metabolism and Differentiation to Protect against Chronic Rejection
Z. Zhang¹, Q. Liu¹, T. Li¹, G. S. Hussey², M. Velayutham¹, J. L. Dziki², L. R. Mathews¹, Y. C. Lee², G. K. Dwyer¹, H. Dai¹, A. S. Roessing¹, S. Shiva³, M. H. Oberbarnscheidt¹, S. F. Badylak², H. R. Turnquist¹
¹Department of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Department of Bioengineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Vascular Medicine Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Self-molecules containing damage-associated molecular patterns stimulate the pro-inflammatory response of infiltrating innate immune cells after their release during tissue injury. Yet, if local endogenous…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Heart and Lung Graft Loss during the “High-Risk Age Window”
J. Long¹, J. Motter¹, K. R. Jackson¹, M. Kosztowski¹, B. Orandi², X. Luo¹, K. Van Arendonk³, A. Massie¹, E. Bush¹, R. S. Higgins¹, D. L. Segev¹, J. M. Garonzik-Wang¹
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²University Of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus, Milwaukee, WI
*Purpose: Pediatric kidney transplant recipients experience a high-risk age window of increased graft loss during late adolescence and early adulthood (17-24 years), termed emerging adulthood.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Can Cardiac Risk Predictor Models Be Trusted in Kidney Transplant Recipients?
K. L. Hoffman¹, R. R. Alloway¹, A. Shields², E. Woodle², A. Govil¹
¹Nephrology & Transplant Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²Transplant Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) bear a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease due to comorbid conditions. Non-invasive cardiovascular risk stratification tools have not been…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Sensitivity of 5-Tier System to Unadjusted Confounding
N. Salkowski, A. Wey, J. Snyder
SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) fits risk-adjusted models for its semiannual program-specific reports (PSRs). Although SRTR adjusts for as many important risk…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Cardiac Work Up Does Not Predict Post-Transplant Cardiac Events at One Year among Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Recipients
S. M. Riad¹, S. Konety¹, S. Jackson², N. Raj¹, V. Vakil¹, D. Keys¹, E. Finger³, R. Spong¹
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Death with functioning kidney allograft due to cardiovascular etiology is among the leading causes of kidney allograft loss after transplantation. Current cardiac work up…