Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Prophylaxis Strategies for CMV Infection in Liver Transplant Recipients
K. Schnelle, A. Leino, M. Chunduru, L. Von Stein, O. Witkowsky
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: The best strategy to prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) following liver transplantation is not defined for intermediate risk recipients (recipient seropositive (R+) regardless of donor status).…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Converting from Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate to Tenofovir Alafenamide for Treatment of Patients with Hepatitis B Following Liver Transplantation
C. Cheng
Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Kwei-Shan Township, Taoyuan, Taiwan
*Purpose: Taiwan has a high prevalence of hepatitis B (HBV) and HBV related end-stages liver diseases are the leading causes of liver transplantation (LT). Tenofovir…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Anonymous Living Donor Liver Donation: Establishing A Protocol and Understanding Donors Experience
S. Shan¹, J. Durden¹, T. Seay², P. Vargas³, S. Pelletier³, J. Oberholzer³, C. Argo⁴, N. Goldaracena³
¹School of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Division of Transplantation, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ³Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ⁴Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Anonymous living liver donation (ALLDs) are not as widely accepted as directed donations from friends and family, despite having significant potential to help mitigate…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Artificial Intelligence May Predicts Early Sepsis in Liver Transplantation
R. D. Kamaleswaran¹, R. Lowell Davis², J. D. Eason³, S. Sataphaty⁴, V. R. Mas⁵, D. Maluf³
¹Biostatistics, Emory, Atlanta, GA, ²Center for Biomedical Informatics & Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ³Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ⁴Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases & Transplantation, Northshore University Hospital/Northwell Health, NSHS, NY, ⁵Biostatistics, Emory, Atlanta, TN
*Purpose: Sepsis post liver transplantation is a frequent challenge impacting patient outcomes. We aimed to develop an artificial intelligence method to predict earlier the onset…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Proteomics Analysis Identifies L-FABP as a Putative Biomarker of Graft Injury During Liver Transplantation Using the ITRAQ/MRM Approach
M. Chen, Y. Zhang, M. Han, W. Ju, Q. Zhao, Y. Chen, D. Wang, X. He
Transplant Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: In liver transplantation, much of factors have a pernicious influence on liver donor quality, such as hepatic steatosis, long term of donor hypotension, cardiac…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Predicting the Safe Use of Deceased after Circulatory Death Liver Allografts in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
V. Fleetwood, A. Gracon, D. Aufhauser, C. Papageorge, K. Janek, G. Leverson, D. Foley, J. Mezrich, A. D'Alessandro, L. Fernandez, D. Al-Adra
Department of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The use of deceased after circulatory donation (DCD) liver allografts in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is controversial given the already-increased risk of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplanting Livers from Hepatitis C Virus Positive Donors; Is it Worth the Risk?
J. W. Mensink¹, B. Van Hoek², B. Schaefer³, M. D. Van Rosmalen⁴, I. P. Alwayn⁵, A. E. Braat⁵
¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Dutch Transplant Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁴Eurotransplant International Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁵Transplant Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
*Purpose: Before the introduction of Direct-Acting Antivirals (DAAs), only selected organs from Hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive donors were successfully transplanted into HCV positive recipients.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ikaros Regulates Macrophage Inflammation in Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: From Mouse-to-Human
K. Kadono¹, S. Kageyama¹, K. Nakamura¹, H. Hirao¹, H. Kojima¹, T. Ito¹, K. J. Dery¹, X. Li², R. W. Busuttil¹, F. Kaldas¹, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski¹
¹Liver Transplant Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²NIEHS, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a major risk factor for early allograft dysfunction and rejection episodes in liver transplantation (LT). The impact of Ikaros,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation Should Be Considered Cautiously in Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma within the Milan Criteria after Curative Liver Resection
J. Kim¹, N. Yi², G. Choi¹, C. D. Kwon³, K. Lee², K. Suh², J. Joh¹
¹Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Division of HBP Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Insufficient data are available about patient survival following different treatments for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after primary hepatectomy. We retrospectively evaluated the effects of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survival Rates
I. A. Ziogas¹, K. P. Economopoulos², M. H. Hayat¹, L. K. Matsuoka¹, M. I. Montenovo¹, M. Izzy¹, S. P. Alexopoulos¹
¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Liver transplant (LT) accompanied by neoadjuvant chemoradiation has emerged as the only curative option for unresectable cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). Although numerous centers have published their…