2018 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of Partial Grafts in Pediatric Candidates with Acute Liver Failure Awaiting Liver Transplantation: SRTR Analysis over 26 Years
Objective: Pediatric fulminant hepatic failure (PFHF) is a devastating condition which portends a poor prognosis without liver transplantation (LT). In comparison to adult candidates, there…2017 American Transplant Congress
Percutaneous Direct Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation in Pediatric Patients with Variceal Bleeding.
Context: Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) creation is technically challenging in children due to their small size. The percutaneous direct intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (DIPS) has…2017 American Transplant Congress
Maternal Risks and Pregnancy Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation: A Single Center Experience.
IntroductionPregnancies in kidney-transplanted women are at high-risk compared to the general population. The aim of this study was to assess the obstetric complications, delivery outcomes,…2017 American Transplant Congress
Importance of Acquisition of Carbapenemase (KPC)-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Experience.
Background: Among multi-drug resistant bacteria, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is recently spreading in several countries. Carbapenemase-producing (CP) Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) has great clinical importance because it could…2016 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Critical Care Education Impacts Pediatric Organ Donation.
Objective: Pediatric donation impacts the disparity between organs needed and organs available for transplantation. We evaluated if a regional educational effort on pediatric donation for…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Donor Procurement Characteristics in Contemporary Live Donor Pediatric Renal Transplantation Outcomes: An Analysis of 282 Cases.
Previous registry analyses have reported inferior graft survival rates when using laparoscopically procured organs and those with the greatest size mismatches between donor and recipient.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Viral Gastroenteritis in Adult and Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Patients.
BACKGROUND. Diarrhea in SOT recipients is common and often attributed to immunosuppressive drug side effects. However, enteric viruses are important causes of acute gastroenteritis and…2015 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Neonatal En-Bloc Kidneys: Do They Grow and Are They Subject to Hyperfiltration Injury?
UC Davis Transplant Center, Sacramento, CA.
Importance:Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) kidney donation is rare but a potentially significant kidney source. Concerns with using these small kidneys include the risk for…2015 American Transplant Congress
Tracking T Cell Fate After Antithymocyte Globulin (ATG) Immunotherapy in Infant Heart Transplant (HTx) Patients
Polyclonal T cell depletion with ATG is a common induction therapy in adult and pediatric transplantation. In adults, T cell recovery post-ATG involves homeostatic proliferation…2015 American Transplant Congress
Controlled Hemodilution in Infant Liver Transplants: A Single Center Experience
Introduction: Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) remains a major comorbidity in pediatric liver transplants often resulting in graft loss and mortality. Controlled hemodilution decreases blood viscosity…
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