Articles tagged "Liver"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Has Every Possible Life Been Saved?: Rummaging Through the Discard Heap
A. L. Friedman, E. Marquez
LiveOnNY, NY, NY
*Purpose: To determine the reasons that deceased donor organs were allocated but not transplanted (TXP) in a large organ procurement organization (OPO).*Methods: All organs allocated…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transient Elastography to Evaluate Steatosis in Candidate Living Donors for Liver Transplantation
E. Palte¹, J. Duong², H. Remotti³, J. Burt³, A. Griesemer⁴, B. Samstein⁵, D. Marratta⁶, A. N. Fox⁷
¹Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, ²Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, ³Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁵Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) increases the donor pool and affords a life-saving cure to recipients who do not have MELD-based access to allografts.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Molecular Phenotypes of Liver Transplant Injury: The INTERLIVER Study
K. S. Madill-Thomsen¹, P. F. Halloran¹, &. the INTERLIVER Study Group²
¹Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²., ., AB, Canada
*Purpose: Liver parenchymal injury phenotypes are difficult to evaluate by histology but could be amenable to molecular assessment. Having developed a Molecular Microscope® Diagnostic System…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Liver Transplantation in Patients with Renal Failure Since Implementation of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Allocation Policy
P. J. Altshuler, O. Shaheen, A. P. Shah, J. Glorioso, A. Frank, C. Ramirez, W. Maley, A. S. Bodzin
Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: To reduce potentially unnecessary kidney utilization, as of August 10, 2017 a new allocation policy was implemented restricting Simultaneous Liver Kidney (SLK) transplant to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Results in Superior Patient and Graft Survival When Compared to Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
A. Barbetta¹, M. Aljehani², M. KIM¹, C. Tien³, A. Ahearn¹, H. Schilperoort², L. Sher¹, J. Emamaullee¹
¹Surgery, abdominal transplat, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Surgery, abdominal transplat, Keck Medical School, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Center-specific or national registry studies have shown that living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) decreases waitlist mortality, reduces waiting time, and may offer superior patient…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Bariatric Surgery is Associated with Increased Fungal Infection after Liver Transplant
M. Jorgenson¹, A. Gracon², B. Hanlon², G. Leverson², D. Al-Adra¹
¹UWHC, Madison, WI, ²UWMF, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The impact of pre-transplant (pre-TXP) bariatric surgery (BS) on outcomes after liver transplant (LTX) has not been completely elucidated. Roux-en Y gastric bypass (RYGB)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Acetaminophen Overdose Related Hospitalizations Requiring Liver Transplant
A. Khan¹, N. Saleem², M. Bilal³, R. Tariq⁴, S. Singh⁵
¹West Virginia University-Charleston division, Charleston, WV, ²University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁴Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, ⁵Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV
*Purpose: Acetaminophen overdose (AO) may lead to severe liver damage requiring an urgent liver transplant (LT). The data on hospital-related outcomes in patients with AO…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Liver Transplant Outcomes: A Single Center Cohort Study
S. A. Mao, K. P. Croome, I. J. Galler, C. B. Taner
Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: This single center study reviews long-term outcomes of liver transplantation identifying morbidity differences between post-transplant liver patients surviving greater than five years versus those…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Liver Outcome Monitoring Registry Consortium: Data and Preliminary Outcome Results
J. Case¹, S. Kurian¹, B. Barrick¹, A. Robinson², M. Prentice², C. Marsh¹
¹Scripps Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation, La Jolla, CA, ²United Network for Organ Sharing Research Department, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The Liver Outcome Monitoring Registry (LOMR) is an online platform for collecting and monitoring liver outcome data of marginal and DCD organs to be…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Widespread Deregulation of Metabolic Genes in Steatotic Livers Pre- And Post-Transplantation
A. R. Wolen¹, C. Kuscu², C. Kuscu², A. Bajwa², J. Eason², S. Sataphaty³, J. D. Eason¹, D. Maluf¹, V. Mas¹
¹Department of Surgery_ University of Tennessee, James D Eason Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN, ²Department of Surgery, Transplant Research Institute, James D. Eason Transplant Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ³Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases & Transplantation, Northshore University Hospital/Northwell Health, NYC, NY
*Purpose: The escalating obesity crisis is a double-edged sword for the field of liver transplantation; higher rates of fatty liver disease increase both the demand…