Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Domestic U.S. Transplant Tourism: Analysis of U.S. Citizens Who Travel to Another State for Transplant
R. S. Mangus, M. F. Mount
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Transplant tourism is a phenomenon where patients travel away from their home to receive organ transplantation where organs are more readily available. This flow…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transient Elastography to Evaluate Steatosis in Candidate Living Donors for Liver Transplantation
E. Palte¹, J. Duong², H. Remotti³, J. Burt³, A. Griesemer⁴, B. Samstein⁵, D. Marratta⁶, A. N. Fox⁷
¹Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, ²Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, ³Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁵Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) increases the donor pool and affords a life-saving cure to recipients who do not have MELD-based access to allografts.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Limited Differences in Infectious Complications of Pediatric Liver Transplant between Hepatoblastoma and Non-Hepatoblastoma Patients
H. Hendricks, A. Lane, J. Geller, A. Bondoc, A. Taylor, G. Paulsen, S. Hirth, S. Blum, G. Tiao, L. Danziger-Isakov
Cincinnati Children's Hosp Med Cntr, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Pediatric liver transplantation (pLTX) has become a part of treatment for Hepatoblastoma (HB). The incidence and characterization of infectious events (IE) has not been…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Liver Regenerative Effect of Substance P after Major Hepatectomy in Rat Models
H. Ahn¹, Y. Kim¹, O. Kwon²
¹Surgery, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Surgery, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The hepatic damages are inevitable under liver surgery. Therefore, post-hepatectomy liver failure remains one of the most dangerous and life-threatening complications of hepatectomy. The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Quantifying Gender-Based Disparties in Liver Allocation: A Path Forward
B. A. Shelton¹, K. Olthoff², E. Pomfret³, K. A. Forde², D. Sawinski⁴, M. Gray¹, N. Ascher⁵, J. E. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, ⁴University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
*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
P. Schemmer¹, F. Braun¹, H. J. Schlitt¹, A. Pascher¹, C. G. Klein¹, U. Neumann¹, I. Kroeger², P. Wimmer², B. Nashan¹
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
Q. Xu¹, V. C. McAlister², S. Leckie², A. A. House², A. Zeevi¹
¹Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Multiorgan Transplant Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada
*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
T. Klair, D. Fritze, E. Thomas, G. Abrahamian, G. Halff, K. Speeg, F. Cigarroa
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
J. Arroyo-Orvañanos, J. A. Hernández-Plata, R. Erro-Aboytia, J. Nieto-Zermeño, A. Reyes-López, G. Varela-Fascinetto
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
W. Alhamoudi¹, I. Salih², S. Yousif², M. Shawkat³, K. Bzeizi², S. Alghamdi², A. Albenmousa², D. Broering²
¹Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Liver Transplant, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ³Internal Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
*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…