Articles tagged "Kidney/liver transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Receiving Hypertensive Donor Has an Inferior Prognosis in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation Recipient
Z. Guo, Z. Zhu, S. Huang, Y. Tang, Z. Zhang, X. He, G. Chen.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Background: The impacts of hypertensive (HTN) donor on the prognosis of simultaneous liver kidney transplantation (SLKT) patient are not known to date, and an applicable…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Post-Transplant Opiate Prescribing Patterns across Transplant Centers
A. Mathur, D. Ubl, J. Harbell, K. Croome, C. Taner, J. Heimbach, A. Moss, E. Habermann.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Phoenix, Jacksonville.
Background: Excess opiate prescribing has led to an epidemic, and evidence to guide abdominal transplant practice is lacking. We aimed to identify variation in opiate…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of DCD Livers vs. NDD and LDLT: Is There a Difference in Post-Transplant Kidney Dysfunction?
D. Kollmann,¹ S. Neong,¹ R. Rosales,¹ G. Sapisochin,¹ M. Bhat,¹ M. Cattral,¹ P. Greig,¹ L. Lilly,¹ D. McGilvray,¹ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Grant,¹ M. Selzner,¹ F. Wong,² N. Selzner.¹
¹Multi Organ Transplant, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada; ²Division of Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Background. Recipients of donation after circulatory death (DCD) grafts are reportedly at higher risk of developing post liver transplant (LT) renal dysfunction. Our aim was…
2018 American Transplant Congress
An Early Look at the OPTN's New SLK Allocation Policy
A. Kucheryavaya,¹ R. Formica,² N. Turgeon,³ D. Stewart,¹ A. Wilk.¹
¹UNOS, Richmond; ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven; ³Emory Univ Hosp, Atlanta.
Background: The new Simultaneous Liver-Kidney (SLK) allocation policy went into effect on 8/10/17. It established renal medical criteria for patients waiting for SLK transplants and…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Donor Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies throughout SLK Transplantation
P. Jindra, M. Kueht, S. Gray, D. Giang, M. Cusick, A. Rana, B. Murthy, W. Etheridge, J. Goss, R. Kerman.
Division of Abdominal Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Simultaneous Liver-Kidney transplantation provides a mechanism to protect the transplanted kidney from recognition by the recipient's immune response compared to solitary kidney transplant alone. High…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Retransplantation and Renal Failure: The Benefit of Simultaneous Kidney Transplant
J. Berumen,¹ V. Irine,² S. Mita,² S. Gabriel,¹ M. Kristin.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA; ²Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
Liver retransplantation has poor survival compared to primary liver transplant. Renal failure is a proven negative risk factor for survival with retransplant. Our aim was…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion in Liver and Kidney Transplantation of Extended Criteria Donors: A Phase-1 of Clinical Trial
M. Ravaioli,¹ V. De Pace,¹ M. Cescon,¹ M. Del Gaudio,¹ V. R. Bertuzzo,¹ A. Siniscalchi,¹ A. D'Errico,² G. Comai,² G. La Manna,² A. D. Pinna.¹
¹General Surgery and Transplantation, University of Bologna Sant'Orsola - Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy; ²Experimental Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna Sant'Orsola- Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
In the field of liver (LT) and kidney transplantation (KT), extended criteria donors (ECD) offer an additional organ source that is more vulnerable for early…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Racial Differences in Rates of Malignant and Infectious Cutaneous Genital Disease after Solid Organ Transplantation
M. Larijani,¹ K. Nadhan,¹ J. Abbott,¹ A. Doyle,² C. Chung.¹
¹Department of Dermatology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; ²Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Purpose: To describe the prevalence and types of genital lesions observed in OTRsMethods: This retrospective review included 496 OTRs who underwent full skin examination at…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney after Liver Transplant: A Matched Pair Analysis
M. Eerhart, J. Reyes, J. Danobeitia, L. Zitur, P. Chlebeck, L. Fernandez.
Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Background: Kidney after liver (KAL) transplantation is the best therapeutic option for patients with ESRD after liver transplantation (OLT). Current allocation policies create a safety…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of NIH Research Funding in Transplantation: The Important Impact of Physician-Scientists in Abdominal Transplant Research
A. Narahari, J. Mehaffey, A. Chandrabhatla, P. Baderdinni, L. Kron, K. Brayman.
Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Introduction: Obtaining National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for scientific research has become increasingly difficult. With increasing clinical demands and declining NIH funding, performing research…