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Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Verification of OPTN Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence Data

    J. George,1 K. Eddinger,1 D. Goldberg,2 M. Levine,3 P. Abt.3

    1Perelman School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Division of Gastroenterology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 3Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    PURPOSE: OPTN data on HCC recurrence is increasingly utilized for a variety of studies; however, the accuracy of this data has not been examined. We…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Early Allograft Dysfunction Causes Inferior Patient and Allograft Survival in Liver Transplantation; an Experience of 1952 Consecutive Liver Transplants

    D. Lee, K. Croome, J. Burns, D. Perry, J. Nguyen, H. Crespo, C. Taner.

    Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.

    Background: Early allograft dysfunction (EAD) in liver transplantation (LT) is a useful intermediate outcome measure to predict graft loss or mortality. We sought to investigate…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of the New Antivirals Sofosfuvir/Ledipasvir on Liver Transplantation for Hepatitis C Cirrhosis

    S. Munoz,1 D. Reich,2 K. Rothstein.1

    1Div of Hepatology, Liver Failure Unit, Hanemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; 2Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.

    The approval of potent antiviral therapy (AVT) with sofosfuvir/ledipasvir (sof/ldv) for hepatitis C (HCV) dramatically increased cure rates (SVR) to nearly 100%. A recent prospective…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Acute Rejection on Liver Transplant Survival in the New Millennium

    J. Levitsky,1 S. Forney,2 B. Gillespie,3 R. Merion,2,3 A. Lok,3 G. Levy,4 L. Kulik,1 M. Abecassis,1 A. Shaked.5

    1Northwestern U, Chicago, IL; 2Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI; 3U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 4U Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 5U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Background: Based on pre-2000 data, acute rejection (AR) has long been considered clinically less significant in liver transplant (LT) vs. other organ recipients (Charlton et…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Organ Resident M2 Type Myeloid Cells Protect Murine Orthotropic Liver Transplants from Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury

    S. Yue, X. Shen, F. Gao, R. Busuttil, J. Kupiec-Weglinski, Y. Zhai.

    The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Ctr., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

    Liver ischemia reperfusion injury (lRI) is mediated by a pro-inflammatory immune response initiated by the activation of liver non-parenchymal innate immune cells, such as Kupffer…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Forty-Seven Consecutive Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplants With Steroid Free Immunosuppression After Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin Induction

    D. Hall, V. Puri, S. Mabry, J. Vanatta, J. Eason.

    Transplantation, University of Tennessee/Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN.

    Introduction: Utilization of rabbit antithymocyte globulin (RATG) induction as part of a steroid free immunosuppression protocol in orthotopic liver transplantation has gained wide acceptance in…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Influencing Cost Among Kidney, Liver, and Heart Transplant Patients in a Private Payer Setting

    W. Bannister,1 C. Wu,1 M. Schnitzler,2 F. Irwin,1 A. Bonagura.1

    1Optum, Minneapolis; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.

    The factors influencing cost in solid organ transplantation have been evaluated by many individual centers, as well as nationally for Medicare patients. However, the majority…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Split and Living Donor Versus Whole Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Adult Recipients: A Single Center Analysis

    O. Boillot, O. Guillaud, J. Dumortier.

    Liver Transplant Unit, Edouard Herriot Hospital, lyon, France.

    INTRODUCTIONThe use of partial liver grafts in the context of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a matter ofdebate because of a supposed higher risk of cancer…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Induction Therapy With either Anti-Thymocyte Antibodies or Il2 Receptor Inhibitors Appears to Decrease the Risk of Graft Loss in DCD Liver Transplantation Compared to No Induction Therapy

    S. Rayhill, J. Haldorson, A. Dick, S. Nazarian, L. Sibulesky, M. Montenovo, L. Yu, I. Javid, T. Pearson, R. Bakthavatsalam, P. Healey, J. Perkins, J. Reyes.

    University of Washington, Seattle.

    An analysis of our center's outcomes in DCD liver transplants suggested that induction with anti-thymocyte antibody preparations (ATG) may reduce the risk of graft loss…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Does BMI Affect Survival in Cadaveric Liver Transplantation for Benign Conditions?

    S. Ayloo, S. Hurton, M. Cwinn, R. Kavanagh, M. Molinari.

    Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

    Obesity is a relative contraindication to liver transplantation (LT). Aim of this study was to analyze morbidity, mortality, long-term survival of cadaveric LTs stratified by…
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