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Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Conversion to Once-Daily Tacrolimus in Stable Pediatric Liver Transplantation Recipients.

    N. Lee, S. Lee, C.-W. Cho, J. Lee, J. Lee, J. Kim, G.-S. Choi, C. Kwon, J.-W. Joh, S.-K. Lee.

    Department of Surgery Organ Transplant Center, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

    Purpose: Pediatric patients are known to have lower compliance than adult patients. Once-daily formulation of tacrolimus may increase compliance in pediatric liver transplant recipients. The…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Virological Response at 4 Weeks With a Sofosbuvir-Based Antiviral Regimen in Liver Transplant Recipients with Recurrent Hepatitis C.

    T. Pastrana-Camacho,1 M. Bradley,1 H. Winters,1 S. Black,2 K. Porter,3 K. Mumtaz.4

    1Pharmacy, The Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 2Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 3Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; 4Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.

    Background: The literature is growing in the area of safety, efficacy and tolerability of sofosbuvir (SOF)- based antivirals therapy (AVT) in recurrent hepatitis C virus…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Improving the Efficiency, Safety and Cost of Evaluating Living Donor Liver Candidates Using Single Sequence MRI.

    M. Schilsky,1,2 K. Cartiera,1 S. Boga,1 S. Schilsky,3 S. Emre,1 D. Mulligan,1 J. Weinreb,1 G. Israel.1

    1Yale New Haven Transplantation Center, Transplantation and Immunology, Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT; 2Section of Digestive Diseases, Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT; 3Food and Drug Administration, Silver Springs, MD.

    Background: Current evaluation of donor candidates for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant (LDLT) includes MRI and CT without and with contrast for defining liver anatomy.…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    What Are the Charges and Costs of Transplanting High MELD Patients?

    K. Bortecen, B. Gelb, A. Winnick, G. Morgan, L. Teperman.

    Transplant Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.

    Purpose: There is a significant variation in the MELD scores and subsequent morbidity among liver recipients in the US. Larger OPOs consistently serve patients with…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    DNA Methylation Patterns and Association with Graft Injury Severity Post Liver Transplantation.

    R. Gehrau, S. Bontha, V. Mas, D. Maluf.

    UVA, Charlottesville.

    Background: Epigenetics modifications in the graft may influence injury severity and function post liver transplantation (LT). This study aimed to interrogate the effect of different…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Occult Multifocal Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Surgical Patients.

    D. Aufhauser Jr,1 E. Sadot,2 D. Murken,1 K. Eddinger,1 D. Goldberg,3 E. Furth,4 P. Abt,1 R. DeMatteo,2 M. Levine.1

    1Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 3Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 4Pathology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Introduction: Resection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with high rates of intrahepatic recurrence. However, it is unclear whether recurrence results from occult multifocal disease…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Outcomes After Splenectomy for Small-for-Size Syndrome in Live Donor Liver Transplantation.

    M. Dib, N. Goldaracena, A. Barbas, M. Marquez, G. Sapisochin, C. Beriault, N. Selzner, I. McGilvray, E. Renner, P. Greig, L. Lilly, A. Ghanekar, M. Cattral, M. Selzner, D. Grant.

    Transplantation, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Introduction: The use of lower volume liver grafts has the potential to expand the donor pool in adult-to-adult live donor liver transplantation (LDLT), but is…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Life-Years Saved After Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

    R. Gruessner, A. Gruessner.

    SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

    Introduction: Transplantation has provided tremendous progress for pediatric patients with liver failure.We determined the survival benefit for pediatric patients as reported to UNOS.Methods: In this…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Strategies to Prevent Ischemic Cholangiopathy After Donation After Circulatory Death Donor Liver Transplantation.

    C. Kubal,1 R. Mangus,1 J. Fridell,1 B. Ekser,1 N. Rush,2 R. Saxena,2 J. Tector.1

    1Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; 2Department of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.

    Background: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donor pool remains underutilized for liver transplantation (LT). We describe optimizing the “modifiable risk factors”, such as CIT, recipient…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Amino Acid (AA) Metabolism During Liver Allograft Preservation Comparing Subnormothermic Machine Perfusion (MP) Against Cold Storage (CS).

    B. Banan, R. Lopez, C. Hughes, G. Michalopoulos, P. Fontes.

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

    Introduction: Liver is the major site for nitrogen metabolism. Most hepatic transcriptional activity is related to protein-specific synthesis. Liver preservation has a direct impact in…
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