Articles tagged "Kidney/liver transplantation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Characterizing Outcomes of Patients with Colorectal Liver Metastases (CRLM) Undergoing Liver Transplantation (LT) Evaluation
E. Takoushian¹, E. Brandon¹, B. Samstein², K. Halazun²
¹Liver Transplantation, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: LT is a novel therapy for patients with unresectable CRLM. 5 year survival using LT appears to be significantly better than systemic chemotherapy in…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Dynapenia Among Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients in the United States
A. S. Nalatwad¹, X. Chen¹, N. M. Chu¹, S. P. Norman², D. L. Segev¹, M. McAdams-Demarco¹
¹Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Univ of Michigan Medical Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Among Kidney Transplant (KT) patients, sarcopenia, loss of muscle mass, is prevalent and has been associated with post-KT mortality. The burden of dynapenia, an…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Implication of Kidney Injury Prior to Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure
M. R. Cloonan¹, D. J. Cloonan², S. Westphal³, L. A. Dageforde¹, S. Merani¹
¹Division of Transplant, Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Division of Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: Acute liver failure (ALF) is a heterogeneous disease process that often includes acute kidney injury. Long-term sequelae of kidney impairment in patients with ALF…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Seroprevalence of HHV8 Among Donors and Recipients with HIV
P. H. Nambiar¹, T. Liang², J. D. Motter³, W. Werbel³, S. Mehta⁴, V. Kirchner⁵, M. Rana⁶, S. Florman⁷, J. Odim⁸, W. Miley⁹, N. Labo⁹, D. Whitby⁹, A. Massie¹⁰, D. Segev³, A. Tobian³, C. Durand²
¹Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, ²Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁴New York University Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY, ⁵University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁶Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁷Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁸National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁹National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, ¹⁰Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kaposi sarcoma (KS) can develop post-transplant via recipient HHV8 reactivation or donor-acquired HHV8. In the general US population, HHV8 seroprevalence is low (1-5%), yet…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding Covid-19 Among Solid Organ Transplant Patients at a Transplant Center in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study
L. Wang, H. Oduor, M. Abualfoul, P. Acharya, M. Pagadala
Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: To evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of patients who have undergone kidney and/or liver solid organ transplants (SOTs) during the COVID-19 pandemic.*Methods:…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Cost And Kidney Allocation In Liver Recipients With Kidney Disease
Y. Lu¹, X. Cheng², S. Sanoff³, L. McElroy³
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ³Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: End stage kidney disease (ESKD) in liver transplant (LT) candidates is associated with worse survival. We sought to identify the predictors of ESKD in…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient and Graft Survival for Simultaneous Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients from Hepatitis C Viremic Donors: A Unos Database Analysis
Z. Haddadin, A. Parsikia, H. Kaul, N. Chandolias, R. Zaki, K. Khanmoradi
General Surgery, Einstein Medical Center-Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: We aimed to compare recipient and graft survival for simultaneous kidney and liver transplant (SLK) recipients from hepatitis C virus (HCV) nucleic acid test…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Race-Based Differences in Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplant Utilization and Outcomes
L. Subbaraj¹, J. Lai², G. Cullaro²
¹Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Race-based variations in rates of kidney dysfunction exist. We aimed to understand the utilization and impact of simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) by race.*Methods: Patients…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Trajectory Analysis Of Single Cell RNAseq Data Suggest Intrarenal Induction Of Tregs In Spontaneously Accepted Kidney Allografts
M. Guinn¹, E. S. Szuter¹, T. Yokose¹, J. Ge², B. Kwon¹, I. Rosales³, P. S. Russell¹, A. Cuenca², J. Madsen¹, R. Colvin³, A. Alessandrini¹
¹Department of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Department of Pathology, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Kidney allografts transplanted across certain mouse strain combinations (e.g. DBA/2 to B6) are spontaneously accepted independent of the recipient’s thymus, spleen, and lymph nodes.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Covid-19 in Transplant Care: Attitudes, Feeling and Behaviors of Liver, and Kidney Pre and Post Transplant Patients
J. Ramos-Ayes
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The SARS-CoV-2(COVID-19) pandemic poses unique challenges for transplant patients, which may impact their attitudes, emotions and behaviors associated with transplant care. This study surveys…