- 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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