Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Justified at Any Meld Score?
H. Oden-Brunson, E. Godfrey, H. Flores, A. Rana
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Assessing the survival benefit of transplantation in patients with chronic liver failure is critical in guiding the decision-making process for liver allocation. Current protocols…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplant for Unresectable Colorectal Metastasis: A Case Series
B. Emmanuel, H. Al-Harakeh, A. Humar, C. Hughes, A. Tevar, M. Molinari, A. Ganoza
Starzl Transplant Institute, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Colorectal Cancer (CRC) represents the third most common malignancy worldwide. In the US, CRC lifetime risk is approximately 1 in 23 (4.4%) for men…
2021 American Transplant Congress
AM PAC Scores and Liver Transplant Resource Utilization
M. Pierpont¹, M. Gosselin², K. Robichaux³, A. Kumar¹, J. Buggs⁴, N. Kemmer⁵
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Honors College, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ³Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁵Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) is a tool utilized to assess three functional domains: basic mobility, daily activities, and applied cognition. Previous studies…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Patient Feedback of a Patient and Family Decision Support Tool for Liver Organ Offer Decisions
C. Schaffhausen¹, S. Chu², M. Bruin³, S. Chinnakotla³, J. Lake³, A. Israni⁴
¹Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN, ³UMN, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Hennepin Healthcare, UMN, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: For liver transplant candidates on the waiting list, deciding to accept a donor organ with known or potential risk factors can be stressful and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
No Benefit of Antithymocyte Globulin in Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients
N. Wilson, P. Nguyen, G. Saracino, R. Patel, G. Testa, T. Sam
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Acute rejection after liver transplant is associated with increased risk of graft failure and mortality. Reports on rejection rates in living donor liver transplants…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Shift in Paradigm: Phosphatidylethanol Testing to Monitor for and Address Alcohol Recidivism Following Liver Transplantation
F. M. Nimri¹, S. Naffouj¹, F. Askar¹, A. Singh², H. Gonzalez², S. Jafri²
¹Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) is a phospholipid that forms in the presence of ethanol with a long half-life compared to other alcohol detection tests. PEth testing…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Non-Liver Transplant Patients
R. Claudio¹, C. Conceicao², K. Robichaux², A. Kumar¹, J. Buggs³, N. Kemmer⁴
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The global prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rising at an alarming rate, driven in large part by an increased incidence of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Combined Heart-liver Transplantation in Patients with Familial Amyloidosis – Analysis of Optn/Unos Database
A. Sharma, A. Sickels, B. Ruch, M. Carli, M. Levy
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We compared the outcomes after combined heart-liver transplant (CHLT) for patients with Familial Amyloidosis (FA) versus other indications (primary cardiac:congenital heart disease and idiopathic…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Rat Model of Antibody-Mediated Rejection After Liver Transplantation
T. Tajima, K. Hata, J. Kusakabe, H. Miyauchi, S. Uemoto
Dept. of Surgery, Div. of HBP Surgery & Transplantation, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a refractory rejection after donor-specific antibody (DSA)-positive or ABO blood-type incompatible liver transplantation (LT), due at least in part to…
2021 American Transplant Congress
High and Low Frequency Domino Liver Transplantation Centers Demonstrate Similar Outcomes
J. Panichella, H. Resweber, H. Curtis, K. Nguyen, A. Di Carlo, S. Karhadkar
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: For patients with transthyretin (TTR) Amyloidosis, the only disease modifying treatment is an orthotopic liver transplant. However, because of the nature of this disease,…