Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis among Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients; Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole vs Alternative Therapies
E. Aldag, C. Pagels, R. Pedersen, I. Nadeem, V. Gunabushanam, A. Sahajpal, T. J. Dilworth
Aurora St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
*Purpose: To describe Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia (PJP) prophylaxis (ppx) practices in our transplant recipients and to determine its safety and efficacy.*Methods: Retrospective review of kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Impact of Spontaenous Portosystemic Shunts on the Short Term Outcome of Liver Transplantation
E. A. Rodriguez¹, R. M. Perez², N. Zhang³, E. S. Lim³, C. R. Miller⁴, M. A. Schwartz², A. J. McGirr⁴, A. Srinivasan⁵, W. R. Hewitt⁵, A. C. Silva⁴, J. Rakela¹, H. E. Vargas¹
¹Transplant Hepatology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ²Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ³Division of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Radiology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ⁵Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: The aim of our study was to compare Liver Transplant (LT) candidates with and without spontaneous portosystemic shunts (SPSS) and assess their impact on…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Pleural Effusion In Liver Transplantation Associated With Worse Hospital Outcomes And Lower Patient Survival
C. Vega¹, J. Clouse², A. Cabrales¹, W. Bush¹, C. Kubal¹, R. S. Mangus²
¹Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Pulmonary complications after liver transplantation have previously been associated with longer hospital stays, increased time on a ventilator, and higher mortality. This study reports…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Management of Orphan Ducts After Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation
N. Celik¹, A. Ganoza², A. Khanna², G. Bond², K. Soltys², R. Sindhi², J. Crowley³, A. Humar¹, G. Mazariegos²
¹Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Living donor (LDLT) and split (SLT) livers are two technical variants of standard liver transplants that potentially increase the number of liver allografts available…
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…