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Articles tagged "Liver cirrhosis"

  • 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…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Incidence of Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation

    J. Klein1, M. Rangel1, I. Ifearulundu1, Y. Gely1, Z. Spigel2, S. Janardhan3, M. Hertl1, E. Chan1

    1Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 2Surgery, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Hepatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency (PEI) in patients undergoing liver transplantation. Furthermore, patient-specific risk factors…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Dysregulation of Immune Cell Glycolysis and Oxidative Phosphorylation Correlates with Development of Pre-liver Transplant Immune Dysfunction and Post-transplant Mortality

    G. Panayotova1, L. Jin1, A. Lemenze1, S. Simonishvili1, Y. Qin1, L. Minze2, G. Dikdan1, F. Paterno1, X. C. Li2, M. Ghobrial2, J. V. Guarrera1, K. E. Lunsford1

    1Transplant Surgery, Rutgers NJMS, Newark, NJ, 2Transplant Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Cirrhosis-related immune dysfunction contributes to early morbidity and mortality following liver transplant (LT). We have previously identified a pre-LT biomarker panel, the immune frailty…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Sars-cov-2 Infection in Waiting List for Liver Transplantation: A Cohort Study on Clinical Outcomes

    A. Sessa, A. Mazzola, B. Granger, D. Wakselman, M. Atif, V. Martinez, M. Mallet Maxime, D. Thabut, O. Scatton, F. Conti

    Hopital Pitie Salpetriere, Paris, France

    *Purpose: Infections in cirrhotic patients are associated with an increased risk of liver-related complications (LRC) and mortality. Limited data regarding the prevalence of Coronavirus disease…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation in Adults With End-Stage Liver Disease: Risk Factors in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3-5, Not on Maintenance Dialysis

    A. Santos, E. Bueno, M. Leghrouz

    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

    *Purpose: We aimed to identify the risk factors for combined liver-kidney transplantation (CLKT) vs. liver transplantation alone (LTA) in end stage liver disease (ESLD) patients…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant-free Survival in Alcohol-related Liver Disease (ALD) Patients Presenting with First Evidence of Ascites

    K. Fahoum1, N. T. Shen2, E. Basu1, J. Lee3, A. Kaplan2, A. Salajegheh4, R. Rosenblatt2, A. Jesudian2, C. Lucero2, B. Fortune2, M. M. Safford5, R. S. Brown2

    1Medical College, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 2Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 3Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 4Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 5General Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

    *Purpose: The development of ascites is a poor prognostic sign for patients with cirrhosis. The factors associated with transplant-free survival at initial presentation with ascites…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Identification of Molecular Markers for Liver Cirrhosis by Single-nucleus Rna Sequencing

    C. Kuscu1, C. Kuscu1, M. Akram2, A. Shetty3, D. G. Maluf4, J. Eason1, V. Mas5

    1Surgery, James D Eason Transplat Institute, Memphis, TN, 2Surgery, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Memphis, TN, 3Surgery, Institute for Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 4Surgery, Program in Transplantation University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 5Surgery, Division of Surgical Science University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by metabolic syndrome and the accumulation of fat in the liver cells (hepatocytes) leading to inflammation and…
  • 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…
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