2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Related Small Bowel Transplantation in Children – Patient and Graft Survival at 10 Years.
Objective: To describe a single-center experience of pediatric living related small bowel transplantation (LRSBtx) and to provide an overview of the outcomes of the children…2016 American Transplant Congress
Computed Tomography Measures of Nutrition Deficits in Patients with Intestine Failure.
Surgery, Transplant Division, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Introduction: Patients with intestine failure (IF) and dependence on parenteral nutrition (PN) develop severe nutrition deficits that impact on perioperative morbidity and mortality. Previous research…2016 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Techniques in Modified Multiorgan Transplantation.
Objective: Investigate the clinical efficacy of combined en-bloc liver-pancreas transplantation in patients with end stage liver disease and diabetes.Method: The clinical data of 19 cases…2016 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Inclusion of the Liver on the Outcome After Intestinal Transplantation.
1Abdominal Transplantation, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2Pathology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Introduction: Intestinal transplantation (ITx) is indicated when life-threatening complications occur following chronic total parenteral nutrition in intestinal failure patients. Several complications (TPN related irreversible liver…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Surgical Preconditioning in Patients with Ultra-Short Gut Using a Native Colonic Conduit for Anticipated Visceral Transplantation.
Center of Gut Rehabilitation and Transplant, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Objective: The last decade witnessed the significant improvement in the morbidity and mortality of short gut syndrome (SGS) patients. However, still a challenge is the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Donor Risk Index for Intestinal & Multi-Visceral Transplantation.
Background: The Donor Risk Index and the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) have been utilized for liver and kidney transplantation in clinical and research setting.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Appraisal of Alternative Immunosuppression Regimens in Intestinal Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Experience.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes (acute cellular rejection, graft loss, mortality) in intestinal transplant recipients who were converted from the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Use of En-Bloc Vascularized Rectus Sheath Allograft to Achieve Abdominal Closure in Pediatric Liver and Multivisceral Transplantation.
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Background: Abdominal wall closure is often challenging in pediatric liver (LT) and multivisceral transplantation (MVT) due to size discrepancy of donor & recipient and abdominal…2016 American Transplant Congress
Intestinal Retransplantation in Children: Single Center Experience.
Aim: To analyze the patient and graft characteristics and improvement in patient outcomes for intestinal retransplantation (Re-ITx) in the era of induction immunosuppression with the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Ex-Vivo Perfusion of the Intestine: The Introduction of an Innovative Physiologic Model with Novel Biomarkers.
General Surgery, Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
Purpose: Ischemia reperfusion injury is a major risk factor for short and long-term functional survival after intestinal transplantation. Normothermic machine perfusion is an emerging biotechnology…
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