Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplants from Older Donors Have Worse Outcomes in Elderly Recipients with Renal Dysfunction
R. Schilke,¹ M. Safwan,¹ S. Nagai,¹ M. Abouljoud,² A. Patel.¹
¹Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; ²Nephrology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
Background: Most end stage liver disease patients suffer from concomitant renal insufficiency. We aimed to study influence of donor age on outcomes in elderly liver…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Postoperative Immunological Profiles of Adult ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients
T-.J. Wu, Y-.C. Wang, C-.H. Cheng, T-.H. Wu, C-.F. Lee, H. Chou, K-.M. Chan, W-.C. Lee.
Division of Liver and Transplantation Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang-Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Background: Adult ABO-incompatible (ABOi) living donor liver transplantation has been performed for acute liver failure or end stage liver diseases when deceased liver allografts or…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Preventing Recurrence of Incisional Hernia after Liver Transplantation
J. Butler, D. O'Brien, J. Kays, C. Kubal, B. Ekser, J. Fridell, R. Mangus, J. Powelson.
Transplant Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: Incisional hernia is a well-known complication of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Although factors that affect incidence of hernia after OLT have been described, recurrence…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation for Fatty Liver Grafts in Human
W. Ju, S. Huang, Z. Guo, G. Chen, X. He.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
BACKGROUND&AIMS: Fatty liver diseases have led to a continuous increase of available donor livers containing fat. Fatty liver grafts were identified as an independent risk…
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Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Liver Transplantation is Associated with Acute Kidney Injury: Role of Inflammatory Mediators
P. Mihaylov,^1,2 P. Li,¹ J. Skill,¹ L. Timsina,¹ J. Fridell,¹ B. Ekser,¹ R. Mangus,¹ C. Kubal.¹
¹Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis; ²Surgery, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Background: The impact of liver allograft ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) on native renal function remains to be characterized. We hypothesized that elevated levels of circulating inflammatory…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Follow-Up of Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Undergoing Liver Transplantation with Duct-to-Duct Biliary Reconstruction
L. Coromina Hernandez, B. Eghtesad, T. Diago, K. Hashimoto, M. Fujiki, C. Quintini, F. Aucejo, G. Iuppa, A. Hassan, N. Menon, C. Miller.
Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Background:Reconstruction of biliary drainage after liver transplantation (LTx) in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) has been a matter of controversy. Over the recent years,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Disparity in Access to Deceased-Donor Liver Transplantation for Pediatric Candidates
M. Bowring,¹ D. Mogul,¹ D. Segev,¹ S. Gentry.^1,2
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²US Naval Academy, Annapolis.
Geographic disparity in access to deceased-donor liver transplantation (DDLT) is largely uncharacterized for pediatric candidates. We investigated geographic disparity in DDLT rates across Donation Service…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting beyond Milan Criteria: Analysis of 789 Patients from the US Multicenter HCC Transplant Consortium
V. Agopian, United States Multicenter HCC Transplant Consortium.
UCLA, LA.
Objective: OPTN has recently approved MELD prioritization for HCC patients beyond Milan Criteria (MC) who are downstaged (DS) with locoregional therapy (LRT) prior to liver…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Results of LITMUS (NCT 02541916): The Liver Immune Tolerance Bio Marker Utilization Study
A. Chruscinski,¹ V. Rojas-Luengas,¹ A. Issacher,¹ J. Luo,⁴ H. Yowanto,⁴ N. Selzner,¹ L. Lilly,¹ R. Smith,¹ E. Renner,¹ J. Zhang,¹ D. Grant,¹ O. Adeyi,¹ H. Atkins,² P. Juni,³ G. Levy.¹
¹Multi Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²The Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada; ³Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴SCIEX, Brea, CA.
Background: Previously we reported a novel biomarker gene set for the identification of tolerance in murine models of rapamycin-induced cardiac tolerance and spontaneous hepatic tolerance.…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Can Delayed Abdominal Fascia Closure Modify the Short Term Outcome after Adult Liver Transplantation?
I. Vella,¹ M. Pellicciaro,¹ G. Ciancio,² T. Manzia,¹ R. Angelico,³ J. Gaynor,² G. Iaria,¹ G. Tisone,¹ R. Vianna.²
¹Transplant Unit, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy; ²Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami; ³Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Ges[ugrave], Rome, Italy.
BackgroundThe abdominal fascia at the end of adult liver transplantation could often represents a dangerous procedure, complicated by graft size mismatch and post reperfusion hepatic…