Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
A Three-Decade Analysis of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Following Liver Transplantation
O. Y. Mousa¹, J. E. Corral², K. Wijarnpreecha², R. Shah³, V. S. Louwagie⁴, M. J. Bartel⁵, B. Brahmbhatt²
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Mayo Clinic Health System, Mankato, MN, ⁵Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Liver transplant (LT) recipients are at risk of serious long term complications, including a higher risk of de novo malignancies compared to the general…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Genetically Modified Pig Livers with Human Blood
D. Detelich¹, T. M. Coe², C. G. Rickert², C. Carroll², N. Serifis², R. Matheson², I. Rosales², W. Qin³, Y. Kan³, J. Layer³, M. Youd³, W. Westlin³, S. Kimura², A. Azimzadeh², L. Yang³, J. F. Markmann²
¹Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³eGenesis, Cambridge, MA
*Purpose: Barriers to pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation remain, including profound thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy, and rejection. We utilized ex-vivo liver xenoperfusion with human blood to study the human…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Hepaticojejunostomy versus Duct to Duct Anastomosis in Liver Transplantation: An Old Question Revisited
A. M. Elsabbagh, M. T. Shamaa, A. Al-Kurd, F. Tinney, T. Ivanics, A. Mohamed, K. Delvecchio, S. Yeddula, M. Rizzari, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Two surgical techniques are currently used for biliary reconstruction and each has its advantages/disadvantages. However, it is unclear if the used technique can impact…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors Associated with Hepatic Artery Thrombosis in the Modern Era
M. Krach, A. Kernodle, P. Chiang, D. Segev, A. Massie, J. Garonzik-Wang
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Historically, hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) has been associated with certain risk factors, such as donor age, cold ischemia time, and split grafts; it is unclear…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Relationship Between Frailty and Performance Status in Patients with Cirrhosis Awaiting Liver Transplantation
C. Q. Xu¹, F. Yao², Y. Mohamad², R. Wong², D. Kent², S. Seetharaman², Y. Srisengfa², J. C. Lai²
¹Department of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Frailty—a multi-dimensional construct that encapsulates physical function, performance status, and nutritional status—has emerged as a critical determinant of mortality in patients with cirrhosis. Currently,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Exploring Psychosocial Factors and Disparity in Liver Transplant
K. Schmidt
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
T. Ivanics, M. Rizzari, A. Al-Kurd, T. Kitajima, A. Elsabbagh, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai
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
B. I. Babu, D. L. Bigam, K. Z. Dajani, J. A. Shapiro, N. Kneteman
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
S. Noreen¹, R. Hirose², J. Trotter³, J. Heimbach⁴
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Texas Digestive Disease Consultants, Dallas, TX, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*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
A. Duarte-Rojo, D. R. Jorgensen, Q. Qi, K. Chupetlovska, A. A. Borhani, A. Furlan, M. Molinari, S. Ganesh, A. Humar
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…