2020 American Transplant Congress
2019 Refined Criteria for Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy Predict Post Liver Transplant Cardiac Events
*Purpose: Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM) encompasses systolic ± diastolic dysfunction (DD) in patients with end stage liver disease in the absence of known cardiac disease. The…2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Liver Transplant (LT) Waitlist Attrition
1Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA, 2Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: LT patients are listed with the goal of receiving a transplant. Jan-2018 SRTR report showed that our observed waitlist (WL) mortality rate was 11.8…2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating the Efficacy of Robotic-Assisted Incisional Hernia Repair for Post-Liver Transplant Recipients
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
*Purpose: Hernia formation is a well-known complication following open abdominal surgery that contributes to post-operative morbidity and decreases in patient quality of life. Herein we…2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation as a Salvage and Uncommon Procedure for a Patient with Colorectal Liver Metastsis with Promising Results, Case Presentation and Literature Review
Transplant Surgery, King Fahad Specialist Hospital Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide. About 50% of patients with CRC will develop metastases during the course of the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pre-Liver Transplant Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment Standardization on Resource Utilization and Recipient Selection
*Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment (RA) prior to liver transplantation (LT) is a critical aspect of recipient selection, however data on optimal testing is…2020 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Single-Strength Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Thrice Weekly for Pneumocysitis Jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis Post Liver Transplantation
Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Current guidelines recommend Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) prophylaxis for at least 6-12 months after liver transplant (LTx) with preferably Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) at a daily…2020 American Transplant Congress
Bacterial Infection in Compensated Cirrhosis Predicts Inpatient Mortality and Readmission with Decompensation
1Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 2Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Identify the impact of bacterial infection on inpatient mortality and new decompensation in hospitalized patients with compensated cirrhosis from a nationally representative database.*Methods: This…2020 American Transplant Congress
Gingival Mesenchymal Stem Cells (GMSCs) Mitigate Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Regulating Macrophage Polarization Through miR-199a-3p
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have been increasingly studied in organ ischemia-reperfusion injury, but the mechanism is still unclear. This study explored the immunoregulatory effects…2020 American Transplant Congress
Declining Inpatient Mortality for Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Cirrhosis: A Temporal Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Despite the advent of highly effective anti-retroviral therapy, HIV remains a major health burden. Though life expectancy has improved, patients are now dying from…2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Primary Liver Sarcoma in Children-The US Experience from the Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients (1988-2018)
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Primary liver sarcomas (PLS) are rare tumors and encompass subtypes with diverse histology and varying outcomes. These subtypes include embryonal sarcoma (ES), rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS),…
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