2020 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying Gender-Based Disparties in Liver Allocation: A Path Forward
*Purpose: Differences in local organ supply and demand have introduced geographic inequities in the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) based liver allocation system prompting…2020 American Transplant Congress
Trough Level Compliance in Immunosuppression is Important to Protect Renal Function after Liver Transplantation – An Additional Analysis from the Hephaistos Study
1Hephaistos, Study Group, Germany, 2Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany
*Purpose: Most immunosuppressive drugs are dosed according to trough levels (C0-levels). To achieve the optimal balance between efficacy and safety, it is important to avoid…2020 American Transplant Congress
Antibodies to Vascular Autoantigens Are Associated with Poor Long-Term Survival of Liver Re-Transplant
*Purpose: Autoantibodies, which may be generated in transplantation through the exposure of cryptic antigens, are reported to be detrimental for allograft survival. We have demonstrated…2020 American Transplant Congress
Paired Exchange Living Donor Liver Transplantation Using Compatible Pairs- U.S. Single Center Experience
University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: ABO and size incompatibility are common reasons for non-acceptance of otherwise suitable donors in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT). Paired exchange LDLT has been…2020 American Transplant Congress
Cytomegalovirus Infection and Disease in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Burden of Disease Under a Preemptive Therapy Approach
Transplant Department, Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez, Mexico City, Mexico
*Purpose: To report the incidence cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection (CMV-I) and disease (CMV-D) in a cohort of pediatric liver transplant recipients under preemptive therapy, identify risk…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Outcome of Patients Transplanted for Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis Related Cirrhosis
*Purpose: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged as the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. Cirrhosis secondary to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is projected to…2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of 2015 T2 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Exception Policy Implementation on Waitlist Time and Tumor Characteristics
*Purpose: A United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policy change in 2015 created a 6-month delay in the receipt of T2 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) exception…2020 American Transplant Congress
Healthcare Utilization and Costs of Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis
*Purpose: To determine the healthcare utilization and costs of a liver transplantation (LT) for severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH) program.*Methods: We performed a retrospective healthcare utilization…2020 American Transplant Congress
Relapse-Prone Unresectable Hepatoblastoma (HB) Requiring Liver Transplantation (LT) Are Immunogenic and May Be Sensitive to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
1Pediatric Transplant, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Unresectable HB accounts for 8% of all pediatric LT. Post-LT relapse rates approach 20% indicating a need for more effective neoadjuvant chemotherapy.*Methods: To discover…2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation as a Salvage and Uncommon Procedure for a Patient with Colorectal Liver Metastsis with Promising Results, Case Presentation and Literature Review
Transplant Surgery, King Fahad Specialist Hospital Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide. About 50% of patients with CRC will develop metastases during the course of the…
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