Articles tagged "Liver"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Surgery Continuing Professional Development Courses Increase Knowledge and Procedural Confidence
M. J. Hobeika¹, T. Menser², A. Kassam³, T. C. Rice⁴, T. S. Diwan³
¹Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ³University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Washington University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Continuing professional development (CPD) workshops are emerging to fill critical knowledge and skill gaps in both surgical trainees and practicing surgeons. The ASTS has…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Temporal Gene Expression Patterns in Kidney, Heart, Liver, and Lung Transplant Biopsies
P. Halloran¹, J. Reeve¹, .. the INTERLUNG Study Group², .. the INTERHEART Study Group², .. the INTERLIVER Study Group², &. the INTERCOMEX Study Group²
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²., ., AB, Canada
*Purpose: Gene expression patterns change with time post-transplant. The MMDx system makes it possible to do cross-organ comparisons using the same microarray platform and gene…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Metabolic Control and Health Outcomes in Maple Syrup Urine Disease Following Liver Transplantation in Children and Young Adults
C. Ewing¹, K. Soltys², K. Strauss³, G. Mazariegos², R. Sindhi², J. Vockley², P. McKiernan², R. Squires², G. Bond², A. Khanna², J. Squires²
¹School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Clinic for Special Children, Strausburg, PA
*Purpose: Determine outcomes and branch-chain amino acid (BCAA - leucine [LEU], isoleucine [ISO], and valine [VAL]) levels at 1-3, 4-7, and 8-10 years for patient’s…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Mortality and Transplant Probability for Inactively Listed Liver Patients Depends on Donor Service Areas’ Median MELD at Transplant
R. Batra¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart², D. Haakinson¹, G. Gan³, Y. Deng³, S. Kulkarni¹
¹Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Yale University, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Presently, the outcome of patients listed inactive on liver transplant waiting list (WL) are unknown; as inactive patients cannot receive deceased donor organ offers,…
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)…