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Allocation Changes and Covid Effect on Waiting Time for Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: On April 30, 2019 the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented and patients meeting criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma exception points received a score…2021 American Transplant Congress
White, Older Men Are Less Affected by the Changes of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Surgery, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: This study explores quality of life and lifestyle changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic among pre- and post- liver (LT) and kidney (KT) transplant…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Rate of Hospitalization Among Patients with Cirrhosis is More Than Twice as High as Patients Over 85 Years
*Purpose: Cirrhosis is a common disease however it is understudied because population data on patients with cirrhosis is lacking. While the risk of hospitalization in…2021 American Transplant Congress
Severe Hypoxemia After Liver Transplantation in the Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Hepato-pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a complication of liver disease with liver transplantation as the only curative treatment. However these patients can develop severe hypoxemia…2021 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Living Donor Liver Transplant for Patients Who Travel for Transplant in the United States
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We have previously shown that United States (US) liver transplant (LT) candidates listed at a single center (SL) are disadvantaged compared with patients who…2021 American Transplant Congress
Time-averaged Oxygen Saturation During Donor Agonal Phase is Associated with Post-transplant Hepatic Graft Survival
*Purpose: Livers harvested from donors after cardiac death (DCD) are subjected to a period of relative warm ischemia during the agonal phase. There have been…2021 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Liver Assist Device as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure Patients with Multi-Organ Failure
*Purpose: Acute on chronic liver failure (AOCLF) occurs in nearly 25% of patients with acutely decompensated cirrhosis, with many developing multi-organ failure requiring ventilatory, vasopressor…2021 American Transplant Congress
Should We Curtail the Importance of Non-modifiable Risk Factors in Dcd Liver Risk Stratification?
1University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, 2UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Scoring systems have been proposed to select donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors and recipients for liver transplantation (LT). We hypothesized that the generalizability…2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Sars-cov-2 Infection in Waiting List for Liver Transplantation: A Cohort Study on Clinical Outcomes
Hopital Pitie Salpetriere, Paris, France
*Purpose: Infections in cirrhotic patients are associated with an increased risk of liver-related complications (LRC) and mortality. Limited data regarding the prevalence of Coronavirus disease…2021 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Divergence in Waitlist Registration and Trends in Waitlist Removal for Liver Transplantation in Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
*Purpose: This study aims to evaluate regional trends of waitlist (WL) registrations and removal for liver transplantation (LT) among United States (US) adults listed for…
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