Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: UK Single Centre Study.
I. Umbro,^1,2 F. Tinti,^1,2 F. Evison,³ A. Sharif,⁴ B. Gunson,⁵ A. Mitterhofer,² J. Ferguson,¹ P. Muiesan.¹
¹The Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ³Department of Health Informatics, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁴Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁵NIHR Birmingham Liver Biomedical Research Unit and Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Aim of the study is to assess the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) after liver transplantation (LT) in DCD…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Infusion of Extracorporeal Photopheresis Treated Donor Splenocytes Leads to Long-Term Liver Allograft Survival and Donor Specific Tolerance in Rats.
X. Kang,¹ Y. Xie,² X. Yeap,² J. Wang,² J. Schneiderman,² Z. Zhang.²
¹Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, The Third Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin, Chicago, IL.
Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP), a procedure that exposes isolated WBC to photoactivatable 8-methoxypsoralen and ultraviolet A radiation, is used clinically to treat patients with cutaneous T-cell…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus versus Mycophenolate Mofetil in Combination with Tacrolimus: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis in Liver Transplantation.
P. de Simone,¹ P. Carrai,¹ A. Precisi,² L. Coletti,¹ D. Ghinolfi,¹ F. Filipponi.¹
¹Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Pisa Medical School Hospitals, Pisa, Italy; ²Laboratory, University of Pisa Medical School Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
Background: No trial has so far investigated everolimus (EVR)-incorporating immunosuppressive regimens versus combined use of tacrolimus (TAC) and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in liver transplantation (LT).Materials…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Metabolomic Profiles of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cirrhotic Patients Before and After Transplantation.
C. Desai,¹ R. Varghese,² S. Robertazzi,¹ C. Di Poto,² A. Ferrarini,² C. Tu,² R. Girlanda,¹ K. Khan,¹ T. Fishbein,¹ H. Ressom.²
¹Medstar Georgetown Transplant institute, Washington DC; ²Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington DC.
Metabolomics offers the opportunity to characterize complex diseases like hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) through a systematic evaluation of thousands of metabolites in human liver tissues and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Transplant Health Literacy of Liver Transplant Candidates and Their Caregivers.
Y. Bababekov,¹ Z. Fong,^1,2 J. Adler,¹ H. Yeh,¹ D. Chang,^1,2 J. Pomposelli.³
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Codman Center for Clinical Effectivness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ³Transplantation, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
Purpose: All transplant programs provide education sessions and instructional material to their patients to improve health literacy. However, their efficacy is unknown. We piloted a…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Liver Transplant Rates and Waitlist Survival.
M. Bowring, A. Massie, X. Luo, L. Kucirka, E. Chow, A. Cameron, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
Long term changes in access to deceased-donor liver transplantation(DDLT) due to persistent growth of the waitlist, stagnant organ availability, and intermittent allocation policy changes have…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Short and Long Term Mortality in High MELD Recipients.
A. Bertacco,^1,2 M. Rodriguez-Davalos,¹ M. Schilsky,³ P. Yoo,¹ S. Kulkarni,¹ B. Fortune,³ A. Liapakis,³ S. Emre,¹ D. Mulligan.¹
¹Surgery, Yale University, New Haven; ²Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Oncologiche e Gastroenterologiche - DiSCOG, Padova University, Padova, Italy; ³Yale New Haven Transplant Center, Yale University, New Haven.
The model for end-stage disease (MELD) score is used to stratify candidates for liver transplant (LT) based on objective measures. Since June 2013 with changes…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Telemedicine to Reduce Readmissions Post Liver Transplant: Compliance and Feasibility Results.
T. Kaiser,¹ P. Kimmel,² S. Osborn,² S. Diersing,² B. Boswell,² J. Huff,² J. Garrett,¹ N. Anwar,¹ S. Shah.¹
¹Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; ²Transplant, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Telemedicine (TM) was added to our care model as a mechanism to reduce readmissions post liver transplant (LTx). Establishing a TM home allows for remote…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) for Severe Aortic Stenosis as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation.
R. Syed, P. Cox-Alomar, H. Bohorquez, G. Therapondos, N. Girgrah, S. Joshi, G. Tyson, T. Reichman, I. Carmody, G. Loss, A. Cohen, D. Bruce, E. Ahmed, J. Seal, P. Parrino, S. Ramee, N. Bzowej.
Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA.
Background: Historically, severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) has been corrected surgically with aortic valve replacement. In patients with end stage liver disease (ESLD), cardiac surgery…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Experience of Short-Term Preemptive Treatment for Cytomegalovirus Infection in Seropositive Patients After Liver Transplantation – Ten Years Result of a Single Institution.
T.-J. Wu, Y.-C. Wang, C.-H. Cheng, T.-H. Wu, R.-S. Soong, C.-F. Lee, H.-S. Chou, K.-M. Chan, W.-C. Lee.
Division of Liver and Transplantation Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Background/purpose Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains a challenge following liver transplantation. Preemptive treatment is an effective strategy for CMV infection. This report shares the ten years'…