2020 American Transplant Congress
Patient Attitudes Regarding Contraception and Pregnancy after Transplantation
*Purpose: Professional society recommendations regarding contraception and pregnancy after transplantation exist but little is known about patient attitudes.*Methods: We conducted a survey of female transplant…2020 American Transplant Congress
Unresolved Disparities: Sex, Racial, Ethnic, and Insurance Differences in Performance Status at Listing for Liver Transplant
Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, New York, NY
*Purpose: Cirrhosis is a chronic disease characterized by progressive worsening in physical functioning. We hypothesized that poor performance status at time of listing was an…2020 American Transplant Congress
Epidemiology of EBV Infection and EBV Load Kinetics after Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation
National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous virus that infects more than 90% of adult population worldwide. EBV infection after pediatric liver transplantation (LT) accounts…2020 American Transplant Congress
Livers from Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Offer – Accept or Decline?
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Given the shortage of deceased-donor livers, donation after cardiac death (DCD) provides an opportunity to expand the donor pool. Due to concern over the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Can Biliary Internal Stents Reduce Biliary Complications in Adult Liver Transplantation?
*Purpose: Biliary complications remain a consistent cause of morbidity and mortality in liver transplant (LT) recipients and there is controversy as to whether the use…2020 American Transplant Congress
Prognostic Index of Circulating Tumor Cells for Tumor Recurrence in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LT) is an effective option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and end-stage liver cirrhosis. However, organ shortage and tumor recurrence are the main…2020 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Hepatic CHOP Expression Dictates Clinical Outcomes in Liver Transplantation
1UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
*Purpose: Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress plays a pivotal role in the mechanism of liver ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI). Although we and others have demonstrated the…2020 American Transplant Congress
History of Coronary Artery Disease Predicts Inferior Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients of Advanced Age in a Large Multicenter U.S. Cohort
*Purpose: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is common in patients of advanced age and does not preclude liver transplantation (LT) if adequately treated. We aimed to…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Inflammatory Response in the Context of Tissue Injury: Roles of Tyro3, Axl, and Mer (TAM) Receptors in Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Although the inflammatory response in liver ischemia reperfusion injury has been studied extensively, how the context of tissue injury (presence of necrotic/apoptotic cells) regulates…2020 American Transplant Congress
Implementing a Height Based Rule for Allocation of Pediatric Donor Livers to Adults – A Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM) Study
*Purpose: Candidate height contributes to transplant rate and waitlist (WL) mortality disparities seen amongst adult women liver transplant (LT) candidates. 72% of adult women on…
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