Articles tagged "Liver cirrhosis"

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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Algorithms to Identify Alcoholic Hepatitis Hospitalizations in Patients with Cirrhosis
S. Panchal¹, D. Kaplan², D. Goldberg³, N. Mahmud²
¹Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Gastroenterology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Gastroenterology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
*Purpose: With the rising proportion of patients receiving liver transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis, it is important to identify methods of ascertaining hospitalizations with alcoholic hepatitis…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Quality of Life Assessment in Liver Transplant – Feasibility Study and Early Results
O. M. Siddiqui, P. Polineni, A. J. Thuluvath, C. Loftus
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: In addition to survival, quality of life (QoL) is critical to optimizing care in liver transplantation (LT). Although QoL is associated with clinical outcomes…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Shift in Paradigm: Phosphatidylethanol Testing to Monitor for and Address Alcohol Recidivism Following Liver Transplantation
F. M. Nimri¹, S. Naffouj¹, F. Askar¹, A. Singh², H. Gonzalez², S. Jafri²
¹Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) is a phospholipid that forms in the presence of ethanol with a long half-life compared to other alcohol detection tests. PEth testing…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Rate of Hospitalization Among Patients with Cirrhosis is More Than Twice as High as Patients Over 85 Years
N. R. Mazumder¹, K. Guo², L. Zhao³, A. Kho¹, K. Walters⁴, T. S. Carey⁴, C. Loftus¹, D. P. Ladner¹
¹Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ²Biostatistics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ³Biostatistcs, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ⁴University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: Cirrhosis is a common disease however it is understudied because population data on patients with cirrhosis is lacking. While the risk of hospitalization in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Histone Acetylation/methylation Mediated Epigenetic Modifications in the Pathogenesis of Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis-associated Liver Carcinogenesis
P. K. Rajan¹, U. Utibe-Abasi¹, J. D. Sanabria¹, M. Banerjee², G. Smith¹, M. S. Schade¹, J. Sanabria¹, K. Sodhi¹, S. Pierre², Z. Xie², J. I. Shapiro², J. Sanabria¹
¹Department of Surgery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, ²Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR), Marshall University, Huntington, WV
*Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most aggressive human cancers and is characterized by an acquisition of multiple abnormal phenotypes driven by epigenetic…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts (TIPS) in Dialysis-Dependent ESLD Patients: The ALTA Study
J. Ge¹, J. Boike², M. German³, G. J. Morelli⁴, E. Spengler³, A. Said³, A. S. Lee³, A. Hristov³, A. Desai⁵, T. Couri⁶, S. Paul⁶, C. Frenette⁷, N. Christian-Miller⁷, M. Laurito⁸, E. Verna⁸, U. Rahim⁹, A. Goel⁹, D. Gregory², L. VanWagner², K. P. Kolli¹, J. Lai¹
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, ³University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴University of Florida Health, Gainsville, FL, ⁵Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁶University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁷The Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA, ⁸Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁹Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Data on the outcomes of patients with cirrhosis who require renal replacement therapy (RRT) at the time of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) is…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Home-based Liver Frailty Intervention (lift) in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Pilot Study
A. J. Thuluvath¹, K. Belfanti¹, S. Morrissey¹, O. Siddiqui¹, J. Peipert¹, A. Daud¹, J. Levitsky¹, T. Bogg², A. Flores¹, D. P. Ladner¹
¹Northwestern University Transplant Research Collaborative, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Frailty is highly prevalent in patients awaiting LT and is associated with increased waitlist and post-transplant mortality, hospitalizations and LOS. While reduction of frailty…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation Alone in Patients with Compensated Cirrhosis: A Multicenter Study
A. Kassem¹, S. Asrani¹, S. W. Biggins², Y. Darwish¹, M. Nadim³, B. Fischbach¹, T. Fong³
¹Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, ²University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³USC - Keck, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Patients undergoing kidney transplant (KTA) often have risk factors for liver disease including viral hepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Recent European Association…