2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Cognitive Improvement One Month after Liver Transplant Measured by the NIH Toolbox
*Purpose: Cognitive impairment (CI) is highly prevalent in liver cirrhosis. Improvement after liver transplant (LT) varies among patients, diminishing the benefits of LT for some.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Following Open Inguinal Hernia Repair in Liver Transplant versus Cirrhotic Patients
*Purpose: Patients with cirrhosis are at an increased risk for post-operative complications after open inguinal hernia repair (OIHR). Conversely, liver transplant recipients (LTR) may have…2019 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of DCD Donors >50 Years Old for Liver Transplantation
Arizona Transplant Associates, PC, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: End stage liver disease is becoming more prevalent in the United States with approximately 4.9 million adults carrying the diagnosis. It is estimated that…2019 American Transplant Congress
Share 21 Rather Than Share 15: Balancing Transplant Opportunity without Compromising Waitlist Outcomes
*Purpose: We recently reported that, with the introduction of Meld-Na liver allocation, the score at which patients clearly benefit from liver transplant as opposed to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Candidate Attitudes towards Organs from Increased Risk Donors: A Single Center Survey
University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Increased Risk Donors (IRDs) are a significant proportion of the deceased organ donor pool but may be declined by patients on the liver transplant…2019 American Transplant Congress
Patients With Persistently Low MELD-Na Scores Continue To Be At Risk Of Liver Related Death
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Model for End Stage Liver Disease-Sodium (MELD-Na) score is a reliable predictor of 90-day mortality however its long term predictive ability is unclear,…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Sleeve Gastrectomy Following Liver Transplant in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Steatosis: A Five-Year Experience
*Purpose: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) cirrhosis is an increasingly common indication for liver transplantation (LT) in the United States and obese patients continue to be at…2019 American Transplant Congress
Gender Disparities In Cirrhosis: New Findings In A Large Pretransplant Population
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: There is concern that female patients may suffer worse outcomes than their male counterparts while awaiting liver transplant. Studies on this topic often use…2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Impact of the New United Network for Organ Sharing Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation Allocation Policy: Improved Standardization but Similar Utilization
1UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 2Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: In an effort to standardize SLKT utilization, UNOS/OPTN implemented a new SLKT policy on August 10th, 2017. We aimed to characterize the early impact…2019 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Incidence and Transplantation of Individuals Listed with Alcoholic Liver Disease
*Purpose: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) has recently become the most common indication for liver transplantation in the US; it is important to characterize changes in…
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