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Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial To Compare The Efficacy Of Ex-vivo Machine Perfusion With Static Cold Storage In Human Liver Transplantation: The University Of Maryland Experience

    J. Avruch1, N. Goussous2, S. Malik1, M. Pinedo1, R. Meier1, C. Bhati1, D. Maluf1, R. Barth3, J. Alvarez-Casas1

    1Transplant Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Transplant Surgery, University of California Davis Health, Davis, CA, 3University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: There is accumulating clinical evidence of the benefit of normothermic ex-vivo machine perfusion (NMP) compared with traditional static cold storage of liver allografts prior…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Effect of Donor-Recipient Race and Ethnicity Match on Liver Transplantation Outcome in the United States

    H. Liu, C. Kaltenmeier, R. Cruz, A. M. Thompson, D. Reddy, M. D'Alesio, S. Lebowitz, E. Ashwat, S. Tohme, D. Geller, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, A. Humar, M. Molinari

    Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: Recipient race/ethnicity (R/E) affect liver transplantation (LT) outcomes. However, the effect of donor R/E or donor-recipient R/E match is not well studied. We aimed…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Incidence of Biliary Complications at the Beginning of the Academic Year in an Academic Transplant Program

    M. E. Tobon Lascano, C. J. Simon, M. E. Akoad, J. Kim, M. Simpson, Y. Cheah

    Transplant, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA

    *Purpose: Surgery learning is based on a master-apprentice model, a learning curve is essential to measure the acquisition and improvement of surgical skills without compromising…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Patient-Reported Physical Function Correlates with Liver Frailty Index and 4-Meter Gait Speed in Patients with Cirrhosis

    A. J. Thuluvath, J. Peipert, K. Belfanti, S. Morrissey, O. Siddiqui, J. Levitsky, Z. Dietch, A. Flores, D. P. Ladner

    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Frailty is highly prevalent in patients with end-stage liver disease and strongly predicts waitlist and post-transplant mortality. The Liver Frailty Index (LFI) and 4-meter…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Alcohol Renal Syndrome: Alcohol Related Liver Disease for Liver Transplant is Associated with Renal Dysfunction

    J. Lee, K. Okumura, R. Misawa, H. Sogawa, G. Veillette, D. John, B. Partiula, R. Bodin, D. C. Wolf, T. Diflo, S. Nishida

    Westchester Medical Center / New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY

    *Purpose: Liver transplantation (LT) due to alcohol related liver disease (ALD) has been increasing in the US. Alcohol has been known to increase the risk…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Abdominal Aortic Calcification on Renal Function After Liver Transplantation

    R. Ide, M. Ohira, R. Arata, K. Imaoka, K. Ono, T. Mochizuki, N. Tsukiyama, A. Seidakhmetov, H. Yamane, K. Sato, Y. Imaoka, H. Mashima, D. Marlen, R. Nakano, M. Hashimoto, N. Tanimine, S. Kuroda, H. Tahara, K. Ide, T. Kobayashi, Y. Tanaka, H. Ohdan

    Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

    *Purpose: In the wake of improvement in engraftment and survival rates after liver transplantation (LT) in Japan, the onset of late complications, such as renal…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impacts Of Donor Gender On Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma In Liver Transplant Donated After Brain Death

    T. Nakamura1, K. Sasaki2, T. Yamamoto1, S. Kimura1, L. Dageforde1, H. Yeh1, N. Elias1, T. Kawai1, J. F. Markmann1

    1Division of Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    *Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of primary liver cancer. It is well known that HCC is predominant in males and prognosis…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Sex Disparities in Access to Liver Transplant for Waitlisted Patients with Meld 40

    D. C. Cron1, H. Yeh1, H. J. Braun2, N. L. Ascher2, D. C. Chang1, J. T. Adler3

    1Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3Surgery and Perioperative Care, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

    *Purpose: Women with end-stage liver disease are less likely than men to receive a liver transplant, due in part to MELD’s reliance on creatinine and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of COVID-19 on Increased Mortality in Liver Transplant Recipients in United States

    K. Okumura, A. Dhand, R. Misawa, H. Sogawa, R. Bodin, D. C. Wolf, S. Nishida

    Westchester Medical Center / New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY

    *Purpose: COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on access to routine healthcare in both hospitalized and out-patient settings. This impact was also noted in…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    A Physical Therapy and Nutritional Intervention to Improve Frailty in the Liver Transplant Candidate

    N. Bartell1, K. Dokus2, K. Helbig1, J. Martens2, B. Al-Judaibi1

    1University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2Univeristy of Rochester, Rochester, NY

    *Purpose: Sarcopenia and frailty are independent predictors of mortality in cirrhotic patients; increased access to physical therapy (PT) and registered dietician (RD) services have the…
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