Articles tagged "Liver failure"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Case Series: Anti-Thymocyte Globulin as a Treatment for Steroid-Refractory Severe Acute Hepatitis in Children
A. L. Peters, A. Miethke, K. Campbell
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Pediatric severe acute hepatitis (SAH), when not attributed to acetaminophen toxicity, is commonly hypothesized to be caused by a non-typeable viral infection and/or immune…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure: A 16 Year Experience with 214 Patients in the Post-MELD Era
R. McMillan, T. Ito, A. Aziz, A. Amin, A. Murray, J. DiNorcia III, V. G. Agopian, H. Yersiz, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, F. M. Kaldas
Department of Surgery, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LT) remains the gold standard treatment for acute liver failure (ALF). Our center has previously reported outcomes in the pre-Model for End…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Patterns Of Anti-retroviral Use Among U.s. Liver Transplant Candidates With Hiv
A. A. Shaffer¹, A. G. Thomas², D. L. Segev³
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Surgery & Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: There is a high burden of liver disease among HIV-infected (HIV+) individuals, and the class of antiretroviral therapy (ART) used for their treatment may…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Experience of Somatostatin to Prevent Small-for-Size Syndrome in Patients with Small Graft in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
D. Kim, K. Yoon, H. Jo, W. Kang
Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The small-for-size syndrome has to be overcome especially in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) considering the graft and patient survival and morbidities. We introduce…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Higher Incidence of Coagulation Complications in Live Liver Donation
B. Movahedi, p. Mahboub, N. Kim, P. Martins, A. Bozorgzadeh
Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
*Purpose: Live donor liver and kidney donations are very effective procedures to increase the available organ pool and shorten waiting list for the patients listed…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Application of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells with a Simplified Protocol for ABO Incompatible Liver Transplantation in Severe Hepatic Failure Patients
Y. Zhang,^1,2 J. Zheng,^1,2 J. Cai,^1,2 J. Zhang,^1,2 K. Zeng,^1,2 J. Yao,^1,2 Y. Yang.^1,2
¹Department of Hepatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation Center of the Third Affiliated Hospital, Organ Transplantation Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; ²Guangdong Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Research, Key Laboratory of Liver Disease Biotherapy and Translational Medicine of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, .
Objective The purpose of this study was to test the safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) treatment with a simplified protocol for ABO…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Development and Validation of FLF-Transplant Score to Predict Mortality of Status 1A Candidates
Z. Guo, B. Chen, Q. Zhao, E. Xin, Z. Zhang, L. Wang, X. He, G. Chen.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is the definitive treatment for patients with fulminant liver failure (Status 1A). We aimed to develop a prognostic model for prediction…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donation after Cardiac Death Allografts on Outcome Following Liver Transplantation for Fulminant Hepatic Failure: An Analysis of the UNOS Database
S. Kumar,¹ S. Lin,² J. Schold.²
¹Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Scarcity of donor organs in liver transplantation (LT) has necessitated consideration of extended criteria donors (ECDs), including donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors. The narrow…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Advanced Liver Care and Salvage Transplantation Improves Outcomes for Patients with Cirrhosis Requiring Abdominal General Surgical Procedures
D. Milgrom,¹ N. Valsangkar,¹ J. Kays,¹ T. Liang,¹ J. Butler,¹ C. Kubal,¹ M. Maluccio,¹ A. Tector,² L. Koniaris.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ²Department of Transplant Surgery, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AB.
Introduction: Historically, abdominal general surgical procedures on cirrhotic patients carry up to an 80% mortality rate. We hypothesized outcomes of cirrhotic patients requiring abdominal surgical…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Early Corticosteroid Treatment in Patients with Indeterminate Acute Severe Hepatitis
E. Mohr,¹ R. Sucher,² T. Müller,³ T. Kaiser,⁴ T. Berg.¹
¹Hepatology, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; ²Transplant Surgery, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; ³Hepatology, Charite, Berliin, Germany; ⁴Laboratory Diagnostics, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Background and Aims: Discrimination of acute severe autoimmune hepatitis AIH and drug induced liver injury in patients with indeterminate acute severe Hepatitis is challenging. Early…