Articles tagged "Hepatitis"

2022 American Transplant Congress
The Paradox of Lifestyle – Related Liver Disease: ASH and NASH
N. Kemmer¹, J. Buggs²
¹Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: In the last decade, the burden of lifestyle-related chronic disease has been on the rise and is considered a growing serious public health concern.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Admitted for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
M. S. Anderson¹, S. Uttal², M. Bertha³, K. Jencks², H. Asefah², A. Gustafson³, K. N. Truitt³, P. Maddur³, J. Mellinger²
¹Surgery, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Internal Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Despite known increases in alcohol use, changes in alcohol-associated liver disease rates during COVID-19 have not been well characterized. We compared the incidence and…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Variable Course of Hepatitis A Virus Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
A. Vostal¹, J. Husson², A. Shishido¹, N. Jakhete³, E. Moore⁴, X. Wen⁵, A. Amoroso², R. Meier⁶, E. Wilson², K. K. Saharia²
¹Div. of Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ²Div. of Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine and Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, ³Div. of Hepatology, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Dept of Surgery, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, ⁵Dept. of Surgery, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁶Dept. of Surgery, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is typically a self-limited disease in immunocompetent individuals, the natural history and viral kinetics of HAV in solid…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Transmissions 2019: Analysis of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
L. Danziger-Isakov¹, M. G. Michaels¹, A. Agarwal¹, S. Aslam¹, K. Dunn¹, J. Goldman¹, D. Levine¹, C. Marboe¹, G. Marklin¹, S. Pouch¹, M. Rana¹, R. Razonable¹, H. L. Stevenson¹, H. S. Te¹, A. Woolley¹, E. Ward², C. Jett², L. Cartwright², R. La Hoz¹
¹OPTN DTAC, Richmond, VA, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The OPTN DTAC, a multidisciplinary group, evaluates potential donor derived transmission events (PDDTE), mostly infections (I) & malignancies (M), to assess the likelihood of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
P. Hansrivijit¹, A. Trongtorsak², B. Boonpheng³, C. Thongprayoon⁴, W. Cheungpasitporn⁴
¹Department of Internal Medicine, UPMC Pinnacle, Harrisburg, PA, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Amita Health Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL, ³Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is an underdiagnosed disease due to the use of serological assays with low sensitivity. Although most patients with HEV…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis E Diagnosis and Management After Liver, Kidney, or Heart Transplant: A Single Center Experience
M. Carter¹, M. Fitzmaurice², S. Yeddula², A. Singh², S. Nagai², S. Jafri²
¹Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, ²Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Transplant-related Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a rarely recognized entity with significant clinical importance given potential for chronic hepatitis post-transplant. We evaluated HEV…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Algorithms to Identify Alcoholic Hepatitis Hospitalizations in Patients with Cirrhosis
S. Panchal¹, D. Kaplan², D. Goldberg³, N. Mahmud²
¹Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Gastroenterology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Gastroenterology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
*Purpose: With the rising proportion of patients receiving liver transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis, it is important to identify methods of ascertaining hospitalizations with alcoholic hepatitis…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Varicella Hepatitis Mimicking Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced Liver Toxicity
M. J. Weiss¹, X. Zhang², E. K. Spengler¹
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Nivolumab is an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody belonging to a class of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) used for many malignancies. A major limitation to their…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Rare Case of Donor Transmission of Hepatitis a Virus in Two Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Kumar, S. Rao, A. Nishio Lucar, C. Argo, M. Poulter, A. Doyle
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Infectious transmission via solid organ transplant (SOT) remains an inherent risk of transplantation despite measures to mitigate the risk. We report a rare case…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Acute Liver Failure Requiring Liver Transplantation Due to Acute Hepatitis A Infection: A Case Series
C. Xie¹, J. M. Fenkel¹, D. L. Halegoua-DeMarzio¹, J. M. Civan¹, D. M. Tholey¹, S. K. Herrine¹, M. Thapar¹, S. Arastu¹, A. M. Frank², A. P. Shah², J. M. Glorioso², C. G. Ramirez², A. S. Bodzin², W. R. Maley², D. A. Sass¹
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, ²Transplant Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: On August 1, Philadelphia declared a public health emergency regarding rapid increases in new acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) cases, with 355 locally-acquired cases…