2020 American Transplant Congress
Exploring Psychosocial Factors and Disparity in Liver Transplant
Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Trends in liver transplant (LT) have shifted, and increasingly, individuals with alcohol liver disease (ALD) are receiving LT without 6-months of sobriety (Lee &…2020 American Transplant Congress
Re-Transplantation Outcomes in the United States Before and after DAA-Introduction
Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: The success of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy has led to the widespread treatment of HCV and near-universal cure for chronically infected patients and improved…2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation in Locally Unresectable, Undifferentiated Embryonal Cell Sarcoma
General Surgery ( HPB & Transplant), University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Undifferentiated Embryonal Cell Sarcoma (UESL) of the liver is the third most common malignant liver disease of childhood presenting as a rapidly enlarging intra-abdominal…2020 American Transplant Congress
An Early Look at the National Liver Review Board
*Purpose: On May 14, 2019, the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented, establishing a national structure for liver exceptions comprised of three specialty review…2020 American Transplant Congress
Steatosis Quantification by MRI PDFF Effectively Identifies Liver Allografts at Low Risk for Recipient Complicationsin Living Donor Liver Transplantation
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Novel methods to assess steatosis, such as proton density fat fraction (PDFF) from MRI provide an accurate and continuous quantification of mild steatosis. We…2020 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Liver Diseases versus Biliary Atresia: Single Center Experience
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
*Purpose: The main indication for LT in children has been biliary atresia (BA). Recent advances in surgical management and the development of new immunosuppressants have…2020 American Transplant Congress
Should Steatotic Livers Be Transplanted Into Pediatric Recipients?
*Purpose: Although steatotic livers are frequently transplanted in the adult population, they are not commonly transplanted in pediatric recipients. We questioned if the outcomes of…2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterizing the Waitlist Candidate Who Was Bypassed by the Successfully Transplanted Candidate with Alcoholic Hepatitis
*Purpose: Early liver transplantation (LT) for acute alcoholic hepatitis (AH) has increased dramatically in the US since 2016. Due to high MELD-Na scores, AH candidates…2020 American Transplant Congress
Muscle-Liver Crosstalk via the Myokine MG53 Plays a Critical Role in Hepatocellular Repair
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: Transplantation remains the only effective treatment for end-stage liver disease, but the number of organs deemed suitable for transplantation falls far short of the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Opioid Avoidance in Liver Transplant Recipients: Significant Reduction in Opioid Use Through a Multidiscplinary, Multimodal Approach
Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
*Purpose: Given the association between substance use disorder and risk of post-surgical opioid use disorder, we developed an opioid avoidance pathway (OAP) in adult liver…
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