2018 American Transplant Congress
Measuring and Monitoring Equity in Access to Deceased Donor Liver Transplants
Background: In 2016, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) developed a methodology to measure equity in deceased donor kidney allocation and has adapted it…2018 American Transplant Congress
Regional Variation in the Outcomes of MELD-Na Based Liver Allocation
Introduction: While there is known geographic discrepancy in waitlist and transplant outcomes in the MELD era, there is a paucity in understanding of these variations…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney after Liver Transplant: A Matched Pair Analysis
Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Background: Kidney after liver (KAL) transplantation is the best therapeutic option for patients with ESRD after liver transplantation (OLT). Current allocation policies create a safety…2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Pediatric Liver Transplant Rejection with Peripheral Blood Leukocyte (PBL) Transcripts-Considerations and Design Limitations
Pediatric Abdominal Transplant, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.
Background: Optimizing immunosuppression requires individualized rejection-risk assessment in children with liver transplantation (LTx). PBL transcripts are a desirable non-invasive solution. Purpose: To characterize PBL transcriptome…2018 American Transplant Congress
Rituximab Induction to Prevent the Recurrence of PSC after Liver Transplantation-The Lessons Learned from ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation-
Background: Multiple studies have failed to reveal an effective method for preventing the recurrence of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) after liver transplantation (LTx). A national…2018 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Categorization Improve Outcomes and Organ Utilization in Liver Transplant
Background: Liver transplant (LT) varies greatly in technical complexity due to factors such as prior surgery, obesity, and portal vein thrombosis (PVT). This must be…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Positive Donor Blood Cultures in Liver Transplant Recipients
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA.
The purpose of this study was to describe the bacteremia transmission rate of transplanting livers from donors with positive bacterial blood cultures into liver transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Antibiotics Treatment Decreases Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Protects Liver Transplant from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Department of Surgery, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a major risk factor of graft dysfunction in liver transplantation (LT). We have reported a critical role of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Single-Dose Basiliximab Induction in Liver Transplant Recipients with Delayed CNI Initiation
Liver transplant recipients (LTR) with peri-operative renal injury benefit from a delayed CNI protocol using basiliximab (IL2RA) induction to reduce early CNI exposure. Existing literature…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Preserved Collateral Veins on Small-for-Size Grafts in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
Purpose: Graft size is a critical issue in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). We hypothesized that too much portal flow could possibly be diverted into…
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