Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation in Patients Actively Drinking Less Than 6 Months Before Transplant Presenting with Acute Decompensation: A Single-Center Experience.
H. Monsour, D. Victor, M. Boktour, J. Galati, J. Ontiveros, L. Theriot, R. McFadden, C. Mobley, A. Saharia, S. Gordon-Burroughs, A. Gaber, R. Ghobrial.
Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.
Background: Alcohol is amongst the leading causes of liver disease worldwide. Most centers have a 6-month abstinence requirement before transplantation candidacy. Mortality rates for acute…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Recombinant TSGL-Ig Protects Liver Endothelial Cells Against Prolonged Cold Preservation Injury in Mouse Liver Transplantation.
C. Zhang,^1,2 H. Ji,¹ Y. Liu,^1,2 Y. Zhang,^1,2 X.-D. Shen,¹ F. Gao,¹ R. Busuttil, G. Shaw, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.
¹Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ²Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Background: Liver endothelial cells (LEC) suffer from ROS-mediated stress in the pathogenesis of liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). We used a novel recombinant form of soluble…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Perioperative Anemia and Associated Transfusion Requirements in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients.
E. Aldag, P. Moghimi, R. Pedersen, A. Sahajpal, J. Clendenon, V. Gunabushanam, M. Irani, D. Kramer.
Aurora St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
Background: Liver transplantation (LT) maybe associated with massive blood loss due to the complex hemostatic abnormalities of end-stage liver disease (ESLD) and surgical complexity. Blood…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Vaccination Status in Transplant Candidates and Recipients: Current Status and Challenges to Successful Implementation.
H. Leung, K. Cameron, B. Ho, M. Ison.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Background: Vaccines are safety and efficacy of vaccines in transplant candidates and recipients. Several studies have demonstrated significant underutilization of vaccines which increases the risk…
2016 American Transplant Congress
De Novo DQA/DQB Donor Specific Antibodies (DSA) Is Associated with Allograft Dysfunction in Pediatric Liver Transplantation (LT).
U. Ekong, L. Bow, R. Morotti, J. Gannon, P. Valentino, P. Yoo, M. Rodriguez-Davalos, S. Emre.
Yale New Haven Transplantation Center, New Haven.
Antibody mediated rejection following LT is thought to be uncommon. Studies suggest HLA Ab that bind C1q may be deleterious to the TX allograft, &…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Withdrawal in HBsAg Positive Liver Transplant Patients.
A. Nolan,¹ C. Onwudiwe,¹ A. Rangnekar,² R. Satoskar,² T. Fishbein.²
¹Department of Pharmacy, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; ²Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
Introduction: Liver transplantation for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) is associated with a high recurrence rate of HBV post-transplant without the use of prophylaxis. The…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor Champion Program: Time to Redefine Living Liver Donation.
D. Maluf, A. Sites, M. Donovan, J. Wang, E. Lyster, C. Argo.
UVA Surgery, Charlottesville, VA.
Live Donor Champion (LDC) Programs promote the advocacy for living donor transplantation by patients' family members or friends. Hereby, we conducted a prospective 9 month…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Is Pretransplant Determination of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Tumor Grade Using Needle Biopsy Reliable for Transplant Candidate Selection? Analysis of 217 Liver Transplant Recipients.
C. Court, M. Harlander-Locke, D. Markovic, F. Kaldas, A. Zarrinpar, D. Farmer, S. Sho, J. Tomlinson, J. Hiatt, R. Busuttil, V. Agopian, D. Lu, S. Raman.
Department of Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Objective: Despite the prognostic significance of tumor grade and vascular invasion for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), preoperative needle biopsy (PNB) is not routinely utilized…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Biliary Epithelial Damage, Regenerative Capacity and Local Immune Response After Cold Storage of DBD Livers Determine Biliary Complications After Liver Transplantation.
S. Brunner, H. Junger, H. Schlitt, S. Fichtner-Feigl.
Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
Background: The aim of this study was to examine the development and molecular mechanisms of bile duct (BD) damage between organ retrieval and transplantation and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Comparative Intention-to-Treat Analysis of Liver Transplantation for HCC – Living Donor Liver Transplant vs. Deceased Donor Liver Transplant.
K. Tomiyama, N. Goldaracena, A. Barbas, M. Dib, G. Levy, L. Lilly, A. Ghanekar, I. McGilvray, E. Renner, M. Bhat, M. Selzner, M. Cattral, N. Selzner, P. Greig, D. Grant, G. Sapisochin.
Multi-Organ Transplant Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
IntroductionLiving donor liver transplantation (LDLT) can reduce waiting times and potentially decrease drop-out rates for cirrhotic patients with HCC. However, it has also been reported…