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Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Flushing Using Colloid and Crystalloid Solutions

    J. Burg, D. Scott, K. Enestvedt, K. Roayaie, D. Scott.

    Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland.

    Background:Preservation solutions such as University of Wisconsin solution and histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate solution have been cited as causes of hypotension and adverse donor reactions following reperfusion of…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Fabrication Using Whole Organ Scaffold for Transplantable Graft in Large Animal

    K. Inomata,1 H. Yagi,1 K. Tazima,1 K. Sugiyama,1 M. Hieda,1 T. Hibi,1 Y. Abe,1 M. Kitago,1 M. Shinoda,1 O. Itano,1 T. Akaike,2 Y. Kitagawa.1

    1Surgery, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

    Background and aims: Orthotopic liver transplantation is only effective treatment for end-stage liver disease, however it is limited by shortage of donor livers. Therefore, novel…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis as Indication for Liver Transplantation in Europe. Do We Choose the Right Organs for the Right Recipients?

    B. Kern,1 P. Newsome,2 V. Karam,3 R. Adam,3 G. Berlakovich,4 J. Fritz,5 W. Popp,1 B. Feurstein,1 A. Pascher,6 P. Muiesan,7 S. Schneeberger.1

    1Visceral- Transplant, Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 2NIHR Biomedical Research Unit and The Centre for Liver Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 3Hepatobiliary Center, Paul Brousse Hospital - Hôpitaux de Paris Université Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France; 4Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 5Medical Statistics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 6General, Visceral, Transplant Surgery, Charite Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 7Liver and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

    Background:Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has emerged to become the third leading cause for liver transplantation (LT) in the US and since 2002, it has increased constantly.Methods:We…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Results from the Use of Aortohepatic Conduit in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Single Centre 12-Year Experience

    M. Aly, N. Chatzizacharias, A. Gimson, E. Huguet, A. Butler, C. Watson, G. Pettigrew, A. Jah, N. Jamieson, R. Praseedom.

    Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

    Our study investigates the outcomes of the use of aortohepatic conduits in OLT.Methods: This is a retrospective single centre analysis of prospectively collected data from…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Risk of Post Liver Transplant (LT) Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Recurrence Is 2-Fold Higher in Women Compared to Men With AFP Levels at LT Between 101-500

    M. Sarkar,1 J. Dodge,2 F. Yao,1 J. Roberts,2 N. Terrault,1 N. Mehta.1

    1Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; 2Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

    Gender differences in HCC incidence are known, with men at greater risk than women. Pre transplant AFP levels strongly predict post LT HCC recurrence, though…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Pediatric Liver Transplantation: An Outcome Analysis of a 30-Year Single Center Experience

    A. Weissenbacher,1 C. Margreiter,1 R. Oberhuber,1 M. Maglione,1 B. Cardini,1 J. Grahammer,1 T. Müller,2 R. Margreiter,1 S. Schneeberger.1

    1Department for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 2Department of Paediatrics I, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.

    Introduction: In this study we aim to assess factors influencing long-term patient and graft survival as well as surgical parameters and risk factors influencing organ…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Is Transplant Volume Associated With Survival in Pediatric Liver Transplants?

    W. Cherikh,1 H. Kim,2 A. Wilk,1 C. Flavin,1 E. Brewer.3

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; 2Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Baylor Coll Med & Texas Children's Hosp, Houston, TX.

    Background. Center specific volume has been shown to correlate with outcomes for many procedures in the adult population. The current study was conducted to determine…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Hepatocyte-Related miR-193a-3p Is Over-Expressed in Allograft Biopsy from Liver Tolerant Recipients

    R. Danger, J. Lozano, E. Bonaccorsi-Riani, E. Kodela, R. Mas-Malavila, M.-C. Londono, M. Martinez, A. Rimola, M. Martinez-Llordella, A. Sanchez-Fueyo.

    Department of Liver Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, MRC Transplant Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Liver Unit and Bioinformatic Platform, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona and Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

    While liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage liver diseases, its success is compromised by the need to administer life-long immunosuppression, which negatively…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Use of Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA) in Liver Transplantation from Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD) Donors: A Controlled Randomized Trial

    B. Eghtesad, K. Hashimoto, M. Watson, M. Nazzal, C. Quintini, D. Kelly, T. Diago, N. Kawamura, G. El-Gazzaz, M. Fujiki, F. Aucejo, C. Winans, C. Miller, J. Fung.

    Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    To further evaluate the impact of tPA in reduction of ITBS in livers recovered from the DCD donors we conducted a controlled randomized trial. Between…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Biliary Atresia has Equivalent Survival and Shorter Waiting Time Compared to Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation

    S. Alexopoulos,1 V. Nekrasov,1 L. Matsuoka,1 K. Chouliaras,2 Y. Genyk.1

    1Department of Surgery, Keck Medical Center of USC, Los Angeles, CA; 2Department of Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

    Purpose: To determine the benefit of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) compared to deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) in the treatment of end stage liver…
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