Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Inactive Status Change is an Independent Predictor of Waitlist Mortality and Disproportionately Impacts Patients in Donor Service Areas with a Higher Median MELD at Transplant
R. Batra¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart³, D. Haakinson¹, G. Gan³, Y. Deng³, S. Kulkarni¹
¹Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Yale University, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Liver waitlist mortality is calculated by including both active and inactive patients. As inactive patients are unable to receive organ offers, models that adjust…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Live Donor Champion: Advocacy Training to Facilitate Identification of Live Liver Donors
A. D. Love¹, L. R. Herbst¹, D. R. Helfer¹, L. Kurman², M. G. Bowring¹, S. R. Weeks¹, E. King¹, D. L. Segev¹, J. Garonzik Wang¹
¹Surgery, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) may help address organ shortage, patients lack knowledge about living donation and are reluctant to speak to potential…
2020 American Transplant Congress
New Concept of Liver Transplatation in Pediatric Patient – Up Side Down Metod
P. Dubska, L. Janousek, J. Chlupac, M. Kocik, J. Fronek
Transplantation Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LTx) in pediatrics has become an accepted modality for treatment in end-stage liver disease and irreversible acute liver failure. Left lateral segment…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association of Perfusion Characteristics and Post-Transplant Liver Function in Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation
Z. Zhang, Y. Tang, Q. Zhao, Z. Guo, X. He
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: It has been showed that normothermic machine perfusion (NMP), a novel preservation method, is able to assess and resuscitate liver grafts with risk factors.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Timing of Bariatric Surgery for Obese Liver Transplant Candidates
R. A. Choudhury¹, D. Yoeli², G. Hoeltzel³, H. B. Moore², H. Yaffe², K. R. Dumon⁴, N. N. Williams⁴, P. L. Abt⁵, K. D. Conzen², J. J. Pomposelli², E. A. Pomfret², T. L. Nydam²
¹Department of Surgery- Division of Transplantation Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, CO, ²Department of Surgery- Division of Transplantation Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ³Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Department of Surgery- Division of Transplantation Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The timing of bariatric surgery for obese liver transplant candidates remains controversial. Surgery prior to transplant may improves one’s chance of receiving a transplant,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Salvaging Discarded Livers with Normothermic Machine Perfusion: Is it Worth the Cost?
R. J. de Vries, S. Raigani, C. Carroll, Y. Chen, D. C. Chang, J. F. Markmann, K. Uygun, H. Yeh
Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) enables transplantation of discarded grafts with excellent outcomes in clinical trials. The cost of deploying NMP is often cited as…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease after Liver Transplantation Using Measured GFR
N. R. Mazumder¹, J. Levitsky¹, G. Saracino², G. Klintmalm³, J. Trotter², S. Asrani²
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Transplant Hepatology, Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX, ³Transplant Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Historical rates of ESRD after LT are 8% (1 year) and 18% (5 years) (Ojo NEJM 2003). However, these rates were based older estimates…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Proof-of-Principle Study to Evaluate Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Allogeneic Organ Transplant Tolerance (ASCOTT)
A. Chruscinski¹, S. Juvet¹, S. Moshkelgosha¹, E. Renner¹, L. Lilly¹, N. Selzner¹, C. Bredeson², O. Adeyi¹, S. Fischer¹, A. Demetris³, J. Zhang¹, M. Epstein¹, A. Clement², K. Khalili¹, Z. Galvin¹, A. Humar¹, T. Kim¹, K. Tinckham¹, T. Yi¹, G. Levy¹, H. Atkins²
¹Multi-Organ Transplantation, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Long-term survival of recipients of solid organ transplants is limited by chronic rejection, disease recurrence and immunosuppression-induced toxicity. Self-tolerance is established after autologous hematopoietic…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Mortality in Children with Biliary Atresia: A Competing Risks Analysis
I. A. Ziogas, F. Ye, Z. Zhao, L. K. Matsuoka, M. I. Montenovo, S. P. Alexopoulos
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Biliary atresia (BA) is the most common indication for liver transplant (LT) in children. The current PELD allocation algorithm does not accurately reflect the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Readmission Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery in Liver Transplant Recipients
R. A. Choudhury¹, D. Yoeli¹, H. Yaffe¹, H. B. Moore¹, G. Hoeltzel², A. Schulick¹, P. L. Abt³, K. Dumon⁴, K. D. Conzen¹, J. J. Pomposelli¹, E. A. Pomfret¹, T. L. Nydam¹
¹Department of Surgery- Division of Transplantation Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, ²Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ³Department of Surgery- Division of Transplantation Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Bariatric surgery has increasingly been offered for morbidly obese patients prior to liver transplantation with the hope of improving both waitlist candidacy and post-transplant…