Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Increasing the Number of Liver Transplants through Active Review of Offers Turned Down
M. L. Melcher, C. A. Bonham, A. Gallo, W. Concepcion, I. Jacobson, C. O. Esquivel
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: To increase the number of patients benefiting from a liver transplant, a university transplant program instituted a weekly review meeting of the transplant surgeons…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Size Mismatch on Long-Term Graft Survival after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
K. Kamrani¹, A. Okoh², A. Mathur³, L. Brown⁴
¹Dept. of Surgery, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, ²Dept. of Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, ³Div. of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Div. of Liver Transplant Surgery, University Hospital, Newark, NJ
*Purpose: The aim of the current study is to investigate recent trends in mismatched organs utilized for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and examine the impact…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Septuagenarians
M. Najjar¹, K. Bruestle¹, P. Jiang¹, E. Lieberman¹, R. Hwang¹, A. Mathur¹, E. C. Verna¹, A. Griesemer¹, B. Samstein², T. Kato¹, Y. M. Saenger¹, K. J. Halazun², J. C. Emond¹
¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: The impact of advanced age on liver transplantation (LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has not been well studied. We sought to compare post-OLT survival…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Non-Traditional Environmental Factors in Long-Term Outcomes of Liver Transplantation
J. Buggs¹, D. Patino², B. Evans¹, C. Anderson¹, C. Delfavero¹, E. Rogers¹, A. Alsina¹, A. Kumar³
¹Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ³University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The purpose of this research project was to evaluate the role of non-traditional subjective environmental factors in long-term outcomes of liver transplantation.*Methods: We conducted…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Lifelong Immunosuppression, I Am Sure We Told Them That?: Long Term Medication Adherence in Liver Transplant Patients
K. Foster¹, C. Perez¹, T. Harrison¹, H. Corbo¹, N. Patel¹, J. Fleming¹, H. Meadows¹, D. Taber¹, D. DuBay², J. McGillicuddy², N. Pilch¹
¹Department of Pharmacy Services, -Medical University of South Carolina, -Charleston, SC, ²Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, -Medical University of South Carolina, -Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Current literature describes demographic information of non-adherent patients and identifies that non-adherence may be predictive of post-txp outcomes. We suspect that patients with private…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Costimulatory Blockade and Allo-Specific Treg Therapy for Liver Transplant Recipients: Preclinical Data
L. Contreras-Ruiz¹, K. Shimozawa², R. Zhang¹, L. Turka³, J. F. Markmann³, E. C. Guinan²
¹Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, ²Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, ³Center of Transplantation Sciences, Massachussetts General Hosp., Boston, MA
*Purpose: Adoptive transfer of ex vivo generated donor-specific regulatory T cells (Treg) by using CD28/B7 costimulatory blockade (CSB) to induce transplant (TX) tolerance and minimize…
2019 American Transplant Congress
National Landscape of Hope Act Transplant Candidates and Recipients in the United States
A. R. Wilk¹, R. Hunter², M. A. McBride², D. K. Klassen²
¹Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act, enacted on 11/21/13, allows for the transplantation of organs from HIV+ donors into HIV+ recipients in the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
De Novo Donor Specific Antibody and Panel Reactivity Antibody Are Critical Risk Factors for Antibody Mediated Rejection of Kidney Allograft after Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation (a Single Center Study Using Surveillance Renal Biopsies)
Y. Sun¹, A. Zhang², Z. Zaky²
¹Avalon Medical University, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Even though the liver may provide immunologic protection to the kidney from hyperacute rejection, previous publications suggest this protective effect is not sufficient to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis Prophylaxis Increases the Risk of Multi-Drug Resistant Cultures and Infections in Liver Transplant Patients
R. Rosenblatt, A. Schluger, M. Pereira, E. Verna
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis prophylaxis (SBP-P) is increasingly prescribed to patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT), but its impact on multidrug resistant organisms (MDRO) or the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
5,000 Living Donor Liver Transplantations
G. Song, S. Lee, S. Hwang, K. Kim, C. Ahn, D. Moon, T. Ha, D. Jung, G. Park, Y. Yoon, J. Kwon, H. Cho, Y. Jung, S. Kang, I. Jeong, J. Choi
Division of LT and HBB Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: To review single center's experiences in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and analyze risk factors affecting short and long-term outcomes.*Methods: Retrospective analysis of 5,000…