2022 American Transplant Congress
Internal Validation of a Pre-Transplant Biomarker Panel to Predict Post-Transplant Mortality: The Liver Immune Frailty Index
1Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 2Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Infection and sepsis are the greatest contributors to early post-liver transplant (LT) mortality. These often result from ongoing immune dysfunction, or “Immune Frailty”. We…2022 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Pretransplant Cardiac Risk Factor Burden and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Liver Transplant Recipients Over Time
Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the evolution of MACE and pre-LT cardiac risk factors in LTRs over time.*Methods: This is a…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Self-Report of Length of Sobriety is Not Significantly Related to Early Return to Alcohol Use Post Transplant
1Psychiatry, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, 2The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Many transplant centers in the United States require six months of abstinence from alcohol prior to liver transplant. Recently, there has been an increased…2022 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Donor Derived Cell-Free DNA in Liver Transplantation
Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: As a non-invasive measure of allograft injury, quantifying the fraction of donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) has proven to be useful technique in kidney transplantation.…2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Outcomes Using Grafts with Early Allograft Dysfunction
*Purpose: The significance of early allograft dysfunction (EAD) and its impact on liver transplant (LT) outcomes remains debated. Our study aimed to assess LT outcomes…2022 American Transplant Congress
Donor Exercise Preconditioning Protects Murine Orthotopic Liver Grafts During Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pissburgh, PA
*Purpose: Orthotopic liver transplantation (LTx) serves as the gold standard of care in patients with end-stage liver disease. However, a major obstacle to the immediate…2022 American Transplant Congress
Safety and Efficacy of a Probiotic Protocol to Reduce Perioperative Infection After Liver Transplantation
University of Wisconsin Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Evaluate efficacy and safety of a probiotic preparation to reduce perioperative infection in patients undergoing liver transplant surgery*Methods: Adult patients receiving liver transplantation from…2022 American Transplant Congress
Higher Baseline Serum Creatinine Levels AreAssociated with an Increased Incidence of Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients with Hepatorenal Syndrome Type 1 on the Liver Transplant Waitlist
*Purpose: Pretransplant and posttransplant renal replacement therapy (RRT) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in liver transplant recipients, including those with Hepatorenal syndrome type…2022 American Transplant Congress
Surging Liver Transplant Rates for Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease May Exacerbate Waitlist Death of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in MMAT-3 Era
*Purpose: Rates of liver transplantation (LT) for alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) have increased significantly, in part related to broader acceptance of severe alcohol hepatitis (AH)…2022 American Transplant Congress
Failure to Account for Social Determinants of Health in Non-HCC MELD Exceptions Exacerbates Geographic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Non-HCC MELD exceptions have been previously shown to give excess priority for transplant in certain UNOS Regions, but this phenomenon has not been examined…
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