Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Safety and Immunogenicity of BNT-162b2 versus Chadox1 Vaccine in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Prospective Study
A. Ajlan¹, T. Ali², H. Aleid², K. Almeshari², M. Alkaff³, S. Althuwaidi⁴, L. Fajji², A. Alali⁵, D. Halabi⁶, A. Ullah⁷, K. H. Marquez⁸, B. Elmikkaoui⁹, A. Alrajhi¹⁰, A. Zidan¹¹, E. Albogumi.¹², K. Bzeizi¹³, R. Almaghrabi¹⁴, E. DeVol¹⁵, M. Al-Awwami,¹⁶, S. Alghamdi¹³, P. Broering²
¹Pharmaceutical Care Division - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC), Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ²Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ³Medical Laboratory, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Medical Microbiology, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁵Transplant Coordination Team - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁶Transplant Coordination Team - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁷Kidney & Pancreas Health Centre, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁸Analytics Data Centre - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ⁹Data Management - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁰Infectious Diseases - Medicine Department, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹¹Abdominal Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery Centre, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹²Data Management. - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹³Liver & Small Bowel Health Centre, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁴Infectious Diseases - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁵Biostatistics, Epidemiology &Scientific Computing, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁶Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory Kidney & Pa - Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, KFSHRC, Riaydh, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Data showed seroconversion after different SARS-CoV-2 vaccination platforms might yield diminished response in transplant recipients. However, it is unknown whether different vaccination platforms could…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Recipient Gender and Race: Impact on Clinical Outcomes
M. M. French¹, R. Mangus¹, R. Holmes¹, A. Krause¹, J. Sumner¹, C. Kubal², B. Ekser³, P. Mihaylov⁴, J. Fridell⁵, A. Lutz⁶
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Department of Surgery, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, ³Surgery, Indiana University - Transplant Surgery, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Department of Surgery, Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁵Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁶Indiana University, Fishers, IN
*Purpose: Background. Health disparities are present in transplantation. This is a retrospective review of liver transplant (LT) recipients determining the impact of race/gender on early…
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…