2017 American Transplant Congress
Multidisciplinary Psychosocial Liver Transplant Evaluation in Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease – Moving Beyond the Six-Month Rule.
Background: For patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD), many transplant programs and payers have a mandatory six-month sobriety interval prior to transplant eligibility. However, the…2017 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Preservation of Renal Function in Liver Transplant Recipients with Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction and Delayed Initiation of Calcineurin Inhibitors.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
Methods: A single-center retrospective analysis of medical records of 989 liver transplant recipients from 2001-2010 were reviewed and evaluated for patients who received thymo induction…2017 American Transplant Congress
Plasma Cell Hepatitis in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Patients: 15-Year Experience at a Transplant Center.
Background: Plasma cell hepatitis (PCH) is an uncommon liver graft dysfunction which occurs in liver transplant (LT) recipients of different etiologies other than autoimmune hepatitis.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Intra-Patient Variability Determined from Daily Trough Levels in Adherent Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients.
Drugs are classified as highly variable when intra-patient coefficient of variation (CV%) is > 30%. Tacrolimus (TAC) is characterized as highly variable often without supporting…2017 American Transplant Congress
Risk of Ischemic Biliary Injury Is Not Associated with Prolonged Hepatic Artery Ischemic Times During Liver Transplantation.
1Univ. Colorado, Aurora, CO; 2Univ. Washington, Seattle, WA
Biliary strictures after liver transplant (LT) are associated with increased patient morbidity and graft failure. AIM: To assess the association of duration of hepatic artery…2017 American Transplant Congress
Forty-Six Consecutive Cases of Pure Live Donor Right or Extended Right Hepatectomy: Single Surgeon Initial 1-Year Experience.
Surgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
The pure laparoscopic live donor hepatectomy has been performed in several experienced transplant centers. However, short and long-term surgical outcomes are not yet to be…2017 American Transplant Congress
Not All Cellular Rejections Are the Same: Differences in Early and Late Hepatic Allograft Rejection.
While acute cellular rejection (ACR) after liver transplantation (LT) is not thought to cause long-term graft injury and inferior outcomes, this notion has been challenged…2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcome After Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Elderly Patients > 65 Years: Assessing the Long Term Survival.
Organ Transplantation, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Background:In Asia, the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is most common cancer. Despite of the surveillance most tumors are diagnosed at late stages and thus HCC continues…2017 American Transplant Congress
Steatotic Human Livers Show Inferior Function Compared to Non-Steatotic Livers During Ex-Situ Viability Assessment by Oxygenated Machine Perfusion.
Fatty livers are frequently declined for transplantation due to high risk of primary non-function. Ex-situ oxygenated machine perfusion (MP) is superior to static cold storage…2017 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Initial Hepatic Arterial Followed by Portal Reperfusion on Outcomes After Liver Transplantation.
Background: While initial portal reperfusion (PV) of a liver allograft is nearly standardized, limited data suggests initial hepatic arterial reperfusion (HA) may improve hemodynamics and…
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