Articles tagged "High-risk"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Distribution And Outcomes Of Donor Right Kidneys In A National Paired Kidney Exchange Program
G. Roll¹, W. Irish², M. Cooper³, M. Ronin⁴, G. Hil⁵, A. D. Waterman⁶, D. B. Leeser²
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²ECU, Greenville, NC, ³Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC, ⁴NKR, Babylon, CA, ⁵NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁶UCLA and Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Left living donor kidneys for transplant (txp) are preferred to right living donor kidneys for longer renal vein length which decreases technical difficulty of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Transplanting Thoracic Organs From Hcv Donors To Uninfected Patients: Evaluation Of Lung Allografts
Y. Lo¹, R. F. Padera¹, H. R. Mallidi², H. J. Goldberg³, S. K. Singh², A. Coppolino, III⁴, L. R. Baden⁵, A. E. Woolley⁵
¹Pathology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Pulmonary, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Prior to the development of direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV), there was concern that patients who received lungs from…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Unplanned Pregnancies after Liver Transplant Are Associated with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
M. Sarkar¹, L. A. Coscia², D. Kliniewski², S. Rao³, S. Constantinescu⁴, M. J. Moritz⁵
¹Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, PA, ²Gift of Life Institute, Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA, ³Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ⁴Medicine, Lewis Katz Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze planned vs. unplanned pregnancies in female liver transplant recipients. Background: Over 30% of female transplant patients…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Identification Of Pre-transplant Biomarkers Of Recipient Immune Dysfunction That Predict Recipient Risk Of Death Following Liver Transplant: The Immune Frailty Index
K. E. Lunsford¹, N. Aware¹, K. Cleveland¹, C. J. Manner¹, D. T. Nguyen², E. A. Graviss², J. V. Thomas¹, H. Vyas¹, L. W. Moore¹, S. A. Dorman¹, A. Saharia¹, C. M. Mobley¹, M. J. Hobeika¹, X. C. Li¹, R. M. Ghobrial¹
¹Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Cirrhosis-related immune dysfunction is well recognized and likely contributes to early mortality following liver transplant (LT) resulting from infections; however, few prior studies have…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Novel Cell-Free and Concentrated Ascites Reinfusion Therapy for Management of Refractory Ascites in Liver Transplant Candidates
K. Sato, M. Ohira, Y. Imaoka, S. Hashinoto, H. Tahara, K. Ide, T. Kobayashi, Y. Tanaka, H. Ohdan
Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
*Purpose: Refractory ascites at perioperative period in liver transplantation (LT) is associated with the increased morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study is to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Nephrologist
K. A. AlMeshari¹, D. Broering², I. Alahmadi³, S. Raza³, T. Ali³, F. Alzayer⁴, A. Algharabli⁴
¹King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Organ Transplant Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ³Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Matching rates of very highly sensitized patients with cPRA of 91 - 100% (VHSP) and blood type O recipients of ABO incompatible donors (ABO…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Planned vs. Unplanned Pregnancies in Female Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Rao¹, L. A. Coscia², D. Kliniewski², S. Constantinescu³, M. J. Moritz⁴
¹Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Gift of Life Institute, Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA, ³Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of planned vs. unplanned pregnancies in 897 female kidney transplant recipients.*Methods: Data were collected…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Social Loafing: Distribution of Kidneys with Multiple Renal Arteries in a National Paired Kidney Exchange Program
G. R. Roll¹, W. Irish², M. Cooper³, M. Ronin⁴, G. Hil⁴, A. D. Waterman⁵, D. B. Leeser²
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²ECU, Greenville, NC, ³Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC, ⁴NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁵UCLA and Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: To describe the distribution and outcomes after kidney transplantation of multiple renal artery kidneys (MRAK) in a national exchange program.*Methods: We retrospectively reviewed donor…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Microsteatosis in Livers from Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Donors is Associated with Inferior Graft and Patient Survival Following Liver Transplantation (LTX)
N. Bath, G. Leverson, D. Foley
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The current theory is that severe macrosteatosis (MaS) (>50%) in livers recovered from donation after brain death (DBD) donors leads to increased rates of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Consideration for Offering Hepatitis C Antibody Positive Donor Grafts to All Patients Listed for Transplant
L. Smith
Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Background: The field of organ transplantation continuously struggles with inadequate numbers of donor organs. Therefore, efforts remain focused on increasing organ utilization and expanding…

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