Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Predictive Value of Abnormal Hemodynamic Response to Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Liver Transplant Recipients
M. Groose, A. Peotter, L. Hammel
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is an effective tool for perioperative cardiac risk stratification in patients without end-stage liver disease (ESLD). However, DSE is frequently…
2022 American Transplant Congress
An In Depth Assessment of Unsuccessful DCD Donor Procurement Attempts: Areas for Improvement
M. Rosenzweig, M. Finotti, E. Martinez, S. Lee, A. Gupta, A. Wall, J. Bayer, H. Fernandez, N. Onaca, R. Ruiz, G. J. McKenna
Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: DCD donors are a key way to expand allograft supply but an aggressive strategy of pursuing DCD liver allografts is associated with significant number…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Pulmonary Function Tests and Liver Transplantation
D. Reino¹, P. Martinez², K. Robichaux³, M. Gosselin⁴, S. Mohammed³, J. Buggs¹, A. Kumar⁵
¹Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²University of Miami, Miami, FL, ³University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁴University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ⁵Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Liver transplant recipients have a high risk of developing postoperative pulmonary complications. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are expensive and often incapable of predicting patients…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Role of Circulating Tumour Cells in the Management of the Liver Transplant Patient with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
F. Villalba¹, F. Alconchel², L. Sáenz³, M. Sánchez-Lorencio¹, D. Ferreras², P. Cascales², F. Sánchez-Bueno², R. Robles², P. Ramírez²
¹IMIB-Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain, ²Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital (IMIB-Virgen de la Arrixaca), Murcia, Spain, ³Rafael Méndez Hospital, Lorca, Spain
*Purpose: For hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver transplantation (LT) is considered a curative treatment, however, more than 10% of transplant recipients have recurrences within the first…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation for Failing Fontan Physiology: A Large Single Center Comparative Analysis
C. J. Rosenthal¹, D. Noguchi¹, J. A. Aboulhosn², G. S. Van Arsdell³, A. Nsair⁴, M. Ha¹, L. Reardon², G. Lluri⁴, J. P. Lin⁴, S. Saab¹, A. Baird¹, R. S. Venick¹, D. G. Farmer¹, F. M. Kaldas¹
¹Liver and Pancreas Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cardiac Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Cardiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The rate of combined heart-liver transplantation (HLT) has tripled in the last decade, and continues to rise along with the number of patients with…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Basiliximab Provides Similar Efficacy and Renal Recovery in Steroid-Minimal Liver Transplantation
L. Bowman¹, A. Webb¹, Y. Alsalihi², F. Fakhre³, R. Baliga⁴, V. Subramanian⁵, K. Robichaux³, S. Mohammed³, M. Gosselin⁶, J. Buggs⁵, A. Kumar⁷
¹Transplant Pharmacy, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²California Health Sciences University, Clovis, CA, ³University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁴Florida Kidney Physicians, Tampa, FL, ⁵Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁶University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ⁷Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Due to nephrotoxic effects of tacrolimus, previous studies have evaluated the utility of basiliximab to delay or reduce tacrolimus for renal preservation in orthotopic…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Oncological Influences of Pre- and Post-Transplant Sustained Viral Response in Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
K. Sasaki¹, S. Kimura², K. Tomiyama³, Y. Bekki⁴, M. Murray³, P. Huang³, M. Fruscione², A. Moro⁵, C. Kwon⁶
¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ⁴Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁵University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁶Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) is one of the most common causes of hepatocellular carcinoma. After emerging direct-acting agents (DAA), the success rate of…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Living Liver Donors Are Worse Than Those of Matched Healthy Controls: Nationwide Cohort Study
J. Kim¹, J. Choi², J. Kim³, H. Kim⁴, J. Joh¹
¹Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Surgery, Myongji Hospital, Goyang, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Urology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Preventive Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Donor death is the most serious complication of living liver donation, but is reported rarely. We investigated the actual mortality of living liver donors…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Meld/Peld Exception Policy and Outcomes in Children with Hepatopulmonary Syndrome Requiring Liver Transplantation in the United States
M. H. Raza¹, P. Kobierski¹, A. Misra², A. Lim³, C. Goldbeck², K. Etesami², R. Kohli⁴, J. Emamaullee²
¹Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Liver Transplant Program, Children's Hospital-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) is associated with increased waitlist mortality in liver transplant (LT) candidates. Children with HPS are currently granted MELD/PELD exception for LT…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Cytomegalovirus Prophylaxis in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Comparison of Strategies Across the SPLIT Consortium
E. D. Knackstedt¹, S. G. Anderson², R. Anand², J. Mitchell², J. Bucuvalas³, L. Danziger-Isakov⁴
¹Univ of Utah/Primary Children's Hosp, SLC, UT, ²Emmes, Rockville, MD, ³Icahn School of Med at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hosp Med Ctr, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: To compare the effectiveness of short (180d) cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis in pediatric liver transplantation (pLTX).*Methods: A prospective cohort study of primary pLTX (≤18 yrs…