2020 American Transplant Congress
Karnofsky Performance Status Significantly Increases Waitlist Mortality among Different Grades of Acute on Chronic Liver Failure
1Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2Alameida Health System, Oakland, CA
*Purpose: Acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a condition associated with high waitlist mortality and graded according to the number of organ system failures…2020 American Transplant Congress
Improved Survival of Acute Liver Failure by “Off-the-Shelf” Bioartificial Liver Support System Using Immobilized Cryopreserved Hepatocyte Spheroids in Porcine Model
*Purpose: Acute liver failure (ALF) has a rapid and unpredictable onset with high mortality. The only current treatment is to transplant a donor organ but…2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Clinical Outcomes of Induction Regimens in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure
*Purpose: Spontaneous survival rates in acute liver failure (ALF) are vastly improved by liver transplantation (LT). However, the value of induction agents beyond steroids continues…2020 American Transplant Congress
Rare Case of Donor Transmission of Hepatitis a Virus in Two Kidney Transplant Recipients
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Infectious transmission via solid organ transplant (SOT) remains an inherent risk of transplantation despite measures to mitigate the risk. We report a rare case…2020 American Transplant Congress
Acute Liver Failure Requiring Liver Transplantation Due to Acute Hepatitis A Infection: A Case Series
*Purpose: On August 1, Philadelphia declared a public health emergency regarding rapid increases in new acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) cases, with 355 locally-acquired cases…2019 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure: A 16 Year Experience with 214 Patients in the Post-MELD Era
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
*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
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
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…2019 American Transplant Congress
Hyperglycemia Aggravates Acute Liver Injury by Promoting Macrophage NLRP3 Activation via AMPK/mTOR-Dependent Autophagy Inhibition
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
*Purpose: The detrimental effects of diabetes mellitus/hyperglycemia include an increase in the oxidative stress response and an enhanced inflammatory response. Despite an increased understanding of…
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