Articles tagged "Liver failure"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Functional Status Predicts Mortality After Liver Transplant
N. Dolgin,^1,2 P. Martins,¹ F. Anderson,^1,2 A. Bozorgzadeh.¹
¹Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA; ²Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Purpose: To investigate whether pre-transplant functional status predicts mortality after liver transplant (LT).Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of first-time adult LT recipients using…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Validation of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Score Criteria in Liver Transplantation for Acute Flare Up of Hepatitis B in Non-Cirrhotic Liver
W.-C. Lee,¹ T.-J. Wu,¹ C.-F. Lee,¹ R.-S. Soong,¹ C.-H. Cheng,¹ H.-S. Chou,¹ T.-H. Wu,¹ K.-M. Chan,¹ Y.-C. Wang,¹ C.-S. Lee.²
¹Liver and Transplantation Surgery, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang-Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ²Hepatology, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang-Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Background: Decision of necessity of urgent liver transplantation for acute flare up of hepatitis B in the patients without cirrhosis is difficult. The MELD score…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Severe Sarcopenia and Increased Fat Stores in Pediatric Patients With Liver, Kidney and Intestine Failure
W. Bush, C. Miller, C. Kubal, J. Fridell, A. Tector, R. Mangus.
Transplant Division, Dept of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: Recent research suggests that measures of frailty, such as nutrition status, may be important predictors of surgical and transplant outcomes. The objectively calculated degree…