Articles tagged "Liver grafts"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Technique and Result of Anastomosing Right Hepatic Vein to Inferior Vena Cava with a Separate Cavotomy Inferior to Right Hepatic Vein Orfice.
R. Rai, E. Trivedi, I. Shaikh, S. Nagral, N. Doctor.
HPB & Transplant Surgery, Fortis Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
From January 2013 to February 2016 total of 21 patients underwent consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplant in our center. All patients were transplanted using right…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Time Course of Hepatic Graft Function Improvement After Ledipasivir/Sofosbuvir Treatment in Liver Transplant Recipients with HCV and Fibrosis or Cirrhosis Who Achieved SVR.
S. Helmke,¹ J. O'Leary,² J. Burton,¹ M. Cookson,¹ S. Lauriski,¹ J. Trotter,² J. McHutchison,³ G. Everson.¹
¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO; ²Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; ³Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, CA.
Background: In SOLAR-1, liver transplant recipients with HCV and either fibrosis or cirrhosis were treated at baseline with ledipasvir/sofosbuvir and ribavirin for 12 or 24…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Impact of the Share35 Liver Allocation Policy: Survival Outcomes Among Liver Re-Transplant Recipients.
J. Ortiz,¹ N. Koizumi,² C. Kwon,² Y. Zhang,² C. Ortiz.³
¹Department of Surgery, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; ²George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; ³Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
Liver retransplantation (reLTx) is the only treatment option for those who experienced graft loss after primary liver transplantation (LTx). Yet, in an era of increasing…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Role of B Cells in Liver Transplant Tolerance.
M. Morita,² G. Enyindah-Asonye,¹ N. Gupta,¹ J. Fung,² S. Qian,^1,2 L. Lu.^1,2
¹Immunology, LernerResearch Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²General Surgery, Transplant Center, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Scarcely one would argue that donor-specific B cells and antibodies contribute to rejection of transplants. However, studies published in the past few years have provided…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Durable Clinical and Immunologic Advantage of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT) in Children.
E. Przybyszewski,¹ S. Lobritto,¹ M. Martinez,¹ J. Vittorio,¹ A. Fox,¹ B. Samstein,² T. Kato,¹ A. Griesemer,¹ J. Emond.¹
¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; ²Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
Purpose:Despite good results, only 10% of liver transplants in children in the US are from living donors. In addition to optimal timing and graft quality,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Occult Multifocal Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Surgical Patients.
D. Aufhauser Jr,¹ E. Sadot,² D. Murken,¹ K. Eddinger,¹ D. Goldberg,³ E. Furth,⁴ P. Abt,¹ R. DeMatteo,² M. Levine.¹
¹Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; ³Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Pathology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: Resection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with high rates of intrahepatic recurrence. However, it is unclear whether recurrence results from occult multifocal disease…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Users Guide to Maximizing Utility and Outcome in >70 Year Old Donors.
K. Halazun, E. Przybyszewski, B. Samstein, E. Verna, A. Fox, R. Brown, J. Emond.
Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, NY.
Background Among 10 million stroke fatalities in the US since 2002, donated livers were recovered from 28,313. Unfortunately, only 2,402 livers were yielded from 7.5…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Ductoplasty in Right Lobe Living Donor Grafts with More Than One Bile Duct.
S. Kapoor, V. Varma, B. Nath, V. Kumaran.
Liver Transplantation & HPB Surgery, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Background:Biliary complications remain the Achilles's heel of LDLT, especially in the setting of multiple ducts in the right lobe graft. Hilar plate glissonian sheath preservation…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Subnormothermic Machine Perfusion (SNMP) Leads to Increased Bile Production and Secretion of Hydrophilic Bile Acids After Liver Transplantation When Compared to Cold Storage (CS).
B. Banan, R. Lopez, Z. Khan, C. Hughes, G. Michalopoulos, P. Fontes.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Background: Bile production during machine perfusion and after transplantation has been used as marker of liver allograft viability and function. This study aimed to assess…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Modular Approach for Training in Liver Procurement Accelerates Proficiency Gain.
I. Al Hasan,^1,2 H. Sharma,^1,2 M. Tun-Abraham,¹ D. Quan.^1,2
¹Department of Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; ²Multi-Organ Transplant Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
BACKGROUND: Modular training has been established as an educational tool in colorectal and urology surgery for the last 5 years. This modular operative approach is…