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Patient-Reported Physical Function Correlates with Liver Frailty Index and 4-Meter Gait Speed in Patients with Cirrhosis
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Frailty is highly prevalent in patients with end-stage liver disease and strongly predicts waitlist and post-transplant mortality. The Liver Frailty Index (LFI) and 4-meter…2022 American Transplant Congress
Higher Baseline Serum Creatinine Levels AreAssociated with an Increased Incidence of Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients with Hepatorenal Syndrome Type 1 on the Liver Transplant Waitlist
*Purpose: Pretransplant and posttransplant renal replacement therapy (RRT) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in liver transplant recipients, including those with Hepatorenal syndrome type…2022 American Transplant Congress
Escalating Waitlist Mortality Above MELD 40: A Rationale to Uncap MELD 3.0?
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: MELD 3.0 is a recently proposed model that improves upon MELD-Na, incorporating sex and albumin as additional variables, updating existing coefficients and adding relevant…2022 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Predictors of Pediatric Heart Only versus Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: A standardized protocol to identify which patients with Fontan failure require combined heart liver transplant (cHLT) versus isolated heart transplant (HT) has not yet…2022 American Transplant Congress
Vitamin D Deficiency in Liver Transplant Recipients
1Transplant Institute, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, 2University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Patients with chronic liver disease are at risk of nutritional deficiency. The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin D…2022 American Transplant Congress
Galectin-3 Expression in Autoimmune Hepatitis
*Purpose: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is characterized by chronic inflammation in which healthy liver cells are targeted by one’s immune system. The persistent inflammatory milieu can…2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation is Beneficial Regardless of Cirrhosis Stage or Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Grade: A Single-Center Experience
*Purpose: Liver transplantation for the most critically ill remains controversial; however, it is currently the only curative treatment option. The aim of this study was…2022 American Transplant Congress
Molecular Characterization of Progressive Fibrosis in the Liver by Single-Nuclei RNA Sequencing
*Purpose: The prevalence of obesity is negatively affecting the availability of livers for transplantation. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with an increase in…2022 American Transplant Congress
A Physical Therapy and Nutritional Intervention to Improve Frailty in the Liver Transplant Candidate
1University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2Univeristy of Rochester, Rochester, NY
*Purpose: Sarcopenia and frailty are independent predictors of mortality in cirrhotic patients; increased access to physical therapy (PT) and registered dietician (RD) services have the…2022 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery and Alcohol Related Steatohepatitis (BASH): An Increasing Etiology in Pre-Liver Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Obesity-related fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are common causes of End-stage liver disease (ESLD). Bariatric surgery (BS) is commonly indicated for these…
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