2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of U.S. Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on all…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cholecystitis in High-Acuity Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation: A Five-Year Analysis of Incidence, Causes and Impact
Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: While the incidence of gallbladder pathology is well described in the general population, there is almost no data on cholecystitis in liver transplant candidates…2019 American Transplant Congress
Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (rATG) Induction in Heart Transplant Recipients at High Risk for Rejection
*Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of rATG induction in heart transplant recipients at high risk for rejection.*Methods: This was a single-center, retrospective study…2019 American Transplant Congress
Bortezomib Based Induction Therapy Decreases Delayed Graft Function in High Risk Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Over 100,000 candidates await a kidney transplant on the national United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waitlist. Among these candidates, one-third have pre-formed antibodies…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Organ Procurement Organization Surgeon on Utilization of High KDPI Kidneys
*Purpose: In 2014, TXSB organ procurement organization (OPO) employed a full-time donor surgeon. We previously demonstrated that presence of a donor surgeon had a beneficial…2018 American Transplant Congress
Using Machine Learning and Simulation to Compare High Risk Kidney Transplant Survival to Waiting for a Non High Risk Organ
The purpose of this study is to help patients decide whether to accept a kidney from a donor with a potential disease. We consider infectious…2018 American Transplant Congress
Functional Assessment of Kidney Transplant Candidates with the 6 Minute Walk Test and Hand Grip Strength
1Transplant Nephrology, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray; 2University of Utah, Murray, UT.
Background: The 6 minute walk test distance (6MWT) and Isometric hand grand grip strength (HGS) have been studied in various settings as objective measures of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Measures of Physical Frailty, Cardiac Function and Cardiac Biomarkers among Kidney Transplant Candidates
1Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Background: Elevated troponin T at transplant evaluation has been reported to confer risk of cardiovascular mortality among renal transplants. We use troponin T along with…2018 American Transplant Congress
Do High-Risk Categories Convey the Wrong Message to Waitlisted Patients – Is It Time to Reconsider the Absolute Risk of Graft Loss?
Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Many waitlisted patients (pts) do not consent to accept livers from “high-risk” donors (HRD), possibly due to lack of understanding of the absolute risk (AR)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Innovative Strategies to Accommodate Increased Patient Volume in an Outpatient Transplant Infusion Center
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: To accommodate the increasing volume of patients scheduled for infusions at the Comprehensive Transplant Center(CTC) Infusion suite. It began as a two chair unit…
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- …
- 15
- Next Page »