Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Liver Allograft Discard: The Discard Risk Index
A. Rana, M. Kueht, N. Galvan, R. Cotton, T. Miloh, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss.
Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Background: An index that predicts liver allograft discard can effectively grade allografts and can be used to preferentially allocate marginal allografts to aggressive centers. Aim:…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Racial Disparities in Post-Liver Transplant Survival before and after Share 35 Implementation
K. Ross,¹ R. Lynch,² R. Patzer.^1,2
¹Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; ²Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA.
Background: The Share 35 policy was intended to improve equity in access to liver transplantation by broadening regional sharing of livers for the sickest patients…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Advanced Liver Care and Salvage Transplantation Improves Outcomes for Patients with Cirrhosis Requiring Abdominal General Surgical Procedures
D. Milgrom,¹ N. Valsangkar,¹ J. Kays,¹ T. Liang,¹ J. Butler,¹ C. Kubal,¹ M. Maluccio,¹ A. Tector,² L. Koniaris.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ²Department of Transplant Surgery, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AB.
Introduction: Historically, abdominal general surgical procedures on cirrhotic patients carry up to an 80% mortality rate. We hypothesized outcomes of cirrhotic patients requiring abdominal surgical…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Regulatory Dendritic Cell (DCreg) Cell Infusion in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
A. Thomson, A. Humar, F. Lakkis, S. Styn, A. Zahorchak, C. Macedo, D. Metes.
Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
Purpose: We have embarked on a first-in-human phase I/II safety and preliminary efficacy trial of donor-derived regulatory dendritic cells (DCreg) in living donor liver transplantation…
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Comparison of Tobacco Consumption versus Marijuana Consumption in Liver Transplant Recipients
P. Serrano Rodriguez, R. Watkins, L. Jurgevich, D. Gerber, A. Nayyar, J. Jadi, C. Moses, C. Desai.
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
The long term effects of smoking tobacco have been widely reported, from cardiovascular disease, to pulmonary complications and cancer, the effect of Marijuana has not…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Factors Impacting Return to Employment after Liver Transplantation
M. Hassan, M. Abouljoud, N. Sadik, A. Mazur, A. Elbanna, A. Yoshida, M. Jesse.
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit.
Liver transplantation (LT) prolongs the lives of patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD). Post-LT, 22-55% of patients return to some form of active employment. Age…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Biliary pH, Bicarbonate and Glucose Are Suitable Biomarkers of Bile Duct Viability during Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Human Donor Livers
A. Matton,^1,2 Y. de Vries,^1,2 L. Burlage,^1,2 R. van Rijn,^1,2 A. Gouw,³ V. de Meijer,¹ T. Lisman,² R. Porte.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Section Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery & Liver Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Surgical Research Laboratory, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ³Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Background: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) is rapidly making its way into the clinic and can be used for viability assessment of human donor livers prior…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Acute Kidney Injury after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Using a Recurrent Neural Network
A. Bishara, R. Kothari, M. Bokoch, C. Niemann, D. Adelmann.
UCSF, San Francisco.
In patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is up to 60%. Prediction of the individual patient's risk of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Small-for-Size Grafts Increase Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Liver Transplantation beyond Milan Criteria
E. Lee, S. Kim, J. Shim, J. Park, B. Na, S-.J. Park.
Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea.
BACKGROUND: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been reported to have high rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence compared to deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT).…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Technical Aspects of Orthotopic Liver Transplantation – A Survey-Based Study within the Eurotransplant, Swisstransplant, Scandiatransplant and British Transplantation Society Networks
Z. Czigany,¹ J. Bednarsch,¹ J. Böcker,¹ F. Meister,¹ I. Amygdalos,¹ W. Schöning,¹ T. Ulmer,¹ X. Rogiers,² P. Dutkowski,³ P-.D. Line,⁴ M. Malagó,⁵ U. Neumann,¹ G. Lurje.¹
¹Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH, Aachen, Germany; ²Department of Solid Organ Transplantation, University Hospital Gent, Gent, Belgium; ³Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ⁴Department of Solid Organ Transplantation, University Hospital Oslo, Oslo, Norway; ⁵Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Surgical aspects of ortoptopic liver transplantation (OLT) are widely based on low-level evidence as well as on local institutional protocols. Aim of this study…