2019 American Transplant Congress
Ligation of the Proximal Splenic Vein to Keep Adequate Portal Flow in Patients with Large Splenorenal Shunts during Living Donor Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Adequate graft portal venous flow is essential for the rapid regeneration of partial grafts during living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Large splenorenal shunts (SRS)…2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Allograft Dysfunction in High Acuity Liver Transplant Recipients
Department of Surgery, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Organ recipient matching in Liver Transplantation (LT) has become ever-more challenging with the ongoing organ scarcity and increasing patient acuity. While the notion that…2019 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor vs. Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation for Pediatric Patients with Metabolic Liver Disease
Renji Hospital, Shanghai, China
*Purpose: Liver transplantation has been accepted as the appropriate treatment option for pediatric metabolic liver disease and the most common methods used are LDLT and…2019 American Transplant Congress
Peri-Operative Basiliximab is Not Associated with Post-Transplant Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence in Liver Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: The optimal immunosuppression for liver transplant recipients (LTR) with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is unknown. Basiliximab, an interleukin-2 receptor antagonist (IL-2RA), confers immunosuppression for LTR…2019 American Transplant Congress
Leukopenia at the Time of Liver Transplantation: Medication Tolerance and Clinical Outcomes
*Purpose: Leukopenia post-orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is associated with an increased incidence of infection and mortality. Prior to OLT, leukopenia may suggest innate immunosuppression and…2019 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating the Predictive Utility of the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT) for Post-Transplant Outcomes in Moderate to High-Risk Liver Transplant Candidates
Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
*Purpose: Previous studies suggest the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT) is predictive of post-transplant outcomes in multiorgan transplant candidates. We aim to determine…2019 American Transplant Congress
Immunization Status at the Time of Pediatric Liver Transplant: A 1-year Study through The Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Vaccine preventable infections are a serious and common complication following transplant. Immunizations are a minimally invasive and cost-effective approach to reducing infections. The objectives…2019 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Myeloid Notch1 Disruption Shifts Neutrophil towards Anti-Inflammatory Phenotype and Protects Liver Grafts from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
*Purpose: Liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a major risk factor of early graft dysfunction and predisposes to rejection crises in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). We…2019 American Transplant Congress
Histologic Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Liver Transplantation: A Large Single Center Experience
Department of Surgery, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Ischemia Reperfusion Injury (IRI) is known to adversely affect graft outcomes in Liver Transplantation (LT). Large series examining the significance of IRI found on…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Sleeve Gastrectomy Following Liver Transplant in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Steatosis: A Five-Year Experience
*Purpose: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) cirrhosis is an increasingly common indication for liver transplantation (LT) in the United States and obese patients continue to be at…
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