2016 American Transplant Congress
Management and Outcomes of Upper Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis in Heart Transplant Patients.
Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis (UEDVT) is common in post-heart transplant (OHT) patients, likely due to their multiple intravascular catheters and post-surgical state. The clinical…2016 American Transplant Congress
Liver Evaluation for Heart Transplantation: Which Is Better, Noninvasive Scans or Liver Biopsy?
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Patients awaiting heart transplantation who have known liver disease from congestive hepatopathy are at increased risk for mortality post-transplantation. The evaluation of the liver…2016 American Transplant Congress
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) for Severe Aortic Stenosis as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation.
Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA.
Background: Historically, severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) has been corrected surgically with aortic valve replacement. In patients with end stage liver disease (ESLD), cardiac surgery…2016 American Transplant Congress
Hospital Readmissions in the First Year Post Transplant Over a 12-Year Span at a Single Center.
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
There is an increased focus on hospital readmissions as a driver of health care costs and indicator of health care quality. Study Purpose: Understanding the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Clinical Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Asymptomatic Bacteriuria.
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
BackgroundThere is no clear consensus on whether asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) should be treated in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). We sought to identify patient or episode…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of CDC High Risk Donors on Patient and Graft Survival After Liver Transplantation
We hypothesized that CDC high risk donors (HRD) might be younger than non-HRD and have other characteristics associated with favorable outcomes after liver transplant (LT).…2015 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Liver Transplant Outcomes for Recipients With MELD <35 Vs. >35
Div. of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN.
Introduction: Current allocation favors liver recipients with MELD > 35 . We compared liver tx outcomes among two groups based on MELD score at the…2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilization and Characteristics of Liver Donors in the US by OPTN-Defined Increased Risk Donor Status
Background: The number of candidates in need of liver transplantation is far larger than the number of organ donors. To expand the organ pool, there…2015 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Eating Disorders in Altruistic Organ Donor Candidates: Pitfalls, Red Flags and Practical Suggestions
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, New York, NY.
The preoperative psychosocial evaluation of potential altruistic organ donors is a means of exploring a patient's motivations for donation as well as identifying any obstacles…2015 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Transmission Events in 2014: A Report of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
Background: The OPTN DTAC, a multidisciplinary committee, evaluates potential donor derived transmission events (PDDTE), including infections (I) & malignancies (M), to assess for donor transmitted…
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