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Articles tagged "Liver cirrhosis"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Gender Affects the Association Between Serum Creatinine Levels and Clinical Response to Terlipressin in Patients with Hepatorenal Syndrome Type of Acute Kidney Injury

    K. Jamil1, R. Frederick2, S. Pappas3

    1Hepatology, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Clinton, NJ, 2Liver Disease/Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 3Orphan Therapeutics, LLC, Longboat Key, FL

    *Purpose: Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)-acute kidney injury (AKI) is a rare and serious complication of cirrhosis, with serum creatinine (SCr) used diagnostically. Women generally have less…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Early Mortality After Liver Transplant is Associated with Pre-Transplant Alterations in Monocyte Phenotype and Gene Expression

    L. Jin1, A. Lemenze2, G. Panayotova1, S. Simonishvili1, Y. Qin1, T. Ayorinde1, G. Prakash1, L. J. Minze3, F. Paterno1, L. Brown1, A. Amin1, X. C. Li3, R. Ghobrial3, J. V. Guarrera1, K. E. Lunsford1

    1Department of Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 2Center for Immunity and Inflammation, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, NJ, 3J.C. Walter Jr. Center for Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Persistence of pre-liver transplant (LT) immune dysfunction (immune frailty) significantly increases post-LT morbidity and mortality. We have identified a pre-LT biomarker panel, the liver…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Alone Recipients with Advanced Liver Disease Have Similar Outcomes to Those without Advanced Liver Disease

    R. R. Nathani, S. M. Rutledge, C. Villarroel, R. Shapiro, G. Y. Im

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

    *Purpose: The prevalence of concomitant liver disease (CLD) in patients with ESRD is reported to be 7-40%. Safety of kidney transplant alone (KTA) in those…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Galectin-3 Discriminates Patients with Advanced Cirrhosis and Predicts Post-Liver Transplant Infectious Complications

    E. Cervantes-Alvarez1, M. Vilatobá1, J. Argemi2, N. Limon-de la Rosa1, O. Mendez-Guerrero1, C. Huang3, D. Kershenobich1, R. Bataller4, A. Torre5, N. Navarro-Alvarez1

    1Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, 2Liver Unit, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Hepatology Program, Center for Applied Medical Research, Pamplona, Spain, Pamplona, Spain, 3University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, 4University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 5Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico city, Mexico

    *Purpose: An increased demand for liver transplantation (LT) prevails. Galectin-3 is a lectin implicated in inflammation, immunoregulation, and liver fibrosis. In this study we assessed…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Patient-Reported Physical Function Correlates with Liver Frailty Index and 4-Meter Gait Speed in Patients with Cirrhosis

    A. J. Thuluvath, J. Peipert, K. Belfanti, S. Morrissey, O. Siddiqui, J. Levitsky, Z. Dietch, A. Flores, D. P. Ladner

    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

    S. N. Sclair1, A. Befeler2, K. Jamil3

    1Hepatology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center & Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 2Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Transplant Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 3Hepatology, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Clinton, NJ

    *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?

    A. Kwong, A. Mannalithara, W. Kim

    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

    K. Zhang, S. Chen, A. Syed, A. Gallo, C. Esquivel, C. Bonham, S. Hollander, M. Ma, J. Han, N. Ebel

    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

    V. Subramanian1, T. Lippert2, J. Buggs1, N. Kemmer1, K. Dhanireddy1

    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

    N. Limon-de la Rosa1, C. Moreno-Ramírez2, E. Cervantes-Alvarez3, D. Yoeli4, I. Vasic4, M. Kriss5, C. A. Huang4, N. Navarro-Alvarez1

    1Gastroenterology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, 2Universidad de Guadalajara , Centro Universitario de la Costa., Puerto Vallarta Jalisco, Mexico, 3Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, 4University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, 5University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

    *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…
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