2022 American Transplant Congress
Escalating Waitlist Mortality Above MELD 40: A Rationale to Uncap MELD 3.0?
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: MELD 3.0 is a recently proposed model that improves upon MELD-Na, incorporating sex and albumin as additional variables, updating existing coefficients and adding relevant…2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of MMaT Policy on Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma at a Single Center
*Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignant hepatic tumor. Currently, liver transplantation may be the optimal treatment for HCC. Patient selection criteria…2022 American Transplant Congress
Fontan versus Non-Fontan Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation: Proceed but Cautiously
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Combined heart-liver transplantation (CHLT) is increasing, corresponding with a growing prevalence of Fontan-associated end-organ damage. We aimed to describe our contemporary institutional experience with…2022 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Outcomes and Financial Burden in Donation After Cardiac Death Donor Liver Transplant After the Implementation of Acuity Circle Allocation Policy
Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: The use of donation after cardiac death (DCD) donor liver grafts has been increasing in many transplant centers after introducing the acuity circles (AC)…2022 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study Comparing the Rates of MDROs in DCD vs DBD Liver Transplant Recipients
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) offers an opportunity to reduce wait list mortality with similar 5-year graft survival rates to donation after brain death…2022 American Transplant Congress
Thromboelastography in Liver Transplantation: A Target Group
*Purpose: Liver dysfunction results in derangement of hemostasis and thrombosis. Thromboelastography (TEG) has emerged as a tool to guide resuscitative efforts. However, its utilization and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Weekend Effect on Adult and Pediatric Liver or Kidney Offer Acceptance
Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Weekends may impose resource and manpower constraints on hospitals. Studies using data from prior allocation schemas showed increased adult organ discards on weekends. We…2022 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged Preservation by Hypothermic Machine Perfusion Facilitates Logistics in Liver Transplantation: A European Observational Cohort Study
*Purpose: A short period (1-2 hours) of hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HOPE) after static cold storage is safe and reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury-related complications after liver…2022 American Transplant Congress
Older Donor Age is Associated with Worse Living Donor Liver Transplantation Outcomes in a National US Cohort
*Purpose: To evaluate the impact of increasing living donor (LD) age on living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) outcomes in the U.S.*Methods: A retrospective cohort of…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pure Laparoscopic versus Open Right Hepatectomy in Living Liver Donors (Graft Weight Discrepancy)
*Purpose: The studies of volumetric evaluation in pure laparoscopic donor hepatectomy (PLDH) are relatively less known than that of conventional donor hepatectomy. The aim of…
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