Articles tagged "Hemodynamics"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Negative Exercise Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy Discards Silent Coronary Artery Disease in High Cardiovascular Risk Patients Awaiting for Kidney Transplantation
E. Melilli,¹ V. Navarro,² O. Bestard,¹ A. Gomez,³ J. Cruzado.¹
¹Kidney Transplantation Unit, Hospital de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; ²Nephrology Service, Hospital San Juan de Dios, San Jose, Costa Rica; ³Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Study Purpose:Screening for silent coronary artery disease (SCAD) in patients awaiting kidney transplantation is still controversial. Indeed, guidelines of some scientific societies show important discrepancies.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Somatostatin (Eumedica®) Infusion Allows Modulating Graft Flows and Gradients in Liver Transplantation. Results of a Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial
R. Troisi,¹ A. Croo,¹ E. Codarin,³ E. De Wolf,¹ J. Van Limmen,⁴ G. Antoniali,³ B. Heyse,⁴ L. De Baerdemaeker,⁴ I. Colle,⁵ G. Tell,³ M. Sainz-Barriga.^1,2
¹General Hepatobiliary Surgery Liver Transplantation Service, Ghent University Hospital Medical School, Ghent, Belgium; ²Digestive Surgery & Liver Transplantation, University of Tours, Tours, France; ³Medical & Biological Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy; ⁴Anesthesiology, Ghent University Hospital Medical School, Ghent, Belgium; ⁵Gastroenterology, Ghent University Hospital Medical School, Ghent, Belgium.
Background: Somatostatin (SST) infusion decrease portal pressure in acute variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients. Despite liver transplantation (LTx), recipients with portal hypertension (PHT) display different…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Experimental Study Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography to Evaluate Rat Chronic Allograft Nephropathy Model and the Relationship Between Hemodynamic Parameters and Renal Allograft Fibrosis
Q. Zhang,¹ Z. Yu,² Y. Xu,¹ S. Zeng,¹ W. Xue,¹ X. Hu.¹
¹Urology Department, Beijing ChaoYang Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; ²Ultrasound Department, Beijing ChaoYang Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Objectives:To quantitatively analyze the changes of hemodynamic characteristics in renal allograft at different stages of a rat chronic allograft nephropathy [CAN]model and the relationship between…