Articles tagged "Living-related liver donors"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Are Drains Required After Donor Hepatectomy?
S. Sharma, S. Kumar, K. Yadav, S. Sable, A. Chauhan, S. Kapoor, V. Varma, V. Kumaran.
Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery Department, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Abdominal drainage after donor hepatectomy is a routine practice in most of the LDLT centres. But the routine abdominal drainage after donor hepatectomy is questioned…
2017 American Transplant Congress
The Glasgow Prognostic Score and Its Variants Predict Mortality in Living Donor but Not in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Double-Center Validation Study.
A. Kaltenborn,¹ J. Gwiasda,¹ N. Heits,² F. Braun,² H. Schrem.¹
¹Core Facility Quality Management Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ²Department of General, Visceral-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Pediatric Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
The notion that inflammation parameters such as CRP and albumin might have an influence on outcome in malignant disease is gaining interest. Serum CRP- and…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Technique and Result of Anastomosing Right Hepatic Vein to Inferior Vena Cava with a Separate Cavotomy Inferior to Right Hepatic Vein Orfice.
R. Rai, E. Trivedi, I. Shaikh, S. Nagral, N. Doctor.
HPB & Transplant Surgery, Fortis Hospital, Mulund, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
From January 2013 to February 2016 total of 21 patients underwent consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplant in our center. All patients were transplanted using right…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced Liver Regeneration After Partial Hepatectomy in Mice Treated with a Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibitor.
J. Latona,¹ A. Shah,¹ J. Cheng,² P. Messersmith,² E. Heber-Katz.³
¹Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; ²University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; ³Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA
Purpose: Resection of more than 70% of liver mass increases incidence of post-operative hepatic failure due to an inability of the liver remnant to adequately…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Kinetics of Liver regeneration in Donors After Living Donor Living Transplant.
S. Sable, S. Maheshwari, R. Jadhav, K. Yadav, S. Sharma, S. Kumar, A. Chouhan, S. Kapoor, V. Varma, V. Kumaran.
Liver Transplant & HPB, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Introduction:The fundamental principle in LDLT lies in the fact that it should provide enough liver volume with a safe remnant.The main pretext for safe donor…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor Kidney Volume Predicts One and Three Month eGFR in Live Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients.
D. Al-Adra,¹ M. Lambadaris,² A. Barbas,¹ Y. Li,² N. Goldaracena,¹ O. Famure,² S. Kim,² A. Ghanekar.¹
¹Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Kidney Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
IntroductionThere has been increasing interest in non-immunological factors that may impact long-term graft survival after kidney transplantation. It is hypothesized that transplantation of larger nephron…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Landscape of Multiple Donations from a Living Donor in the US.
A. Thomas,¹ A. Massie,¹ J. Garonzik-Wang,¹ K. Lentine,² M. Henderson,¹ D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²SLU, St. Louis
Guidelines for uncommon forms of living donation, such as multiple donations from the same person, are lacking. To inform future practice standards, we examined the…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Sarcopenia in Overweight/Obese Recipients on the Outcomes After Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
A. Hammad,^1,2 Y. Hamaguchi,² S. Okumura,² A. Kobayashi,² S. Yagi,² S. Uemoto,² T. Kaido.²
¹Department of Surgery, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Dakahliya, Egypt; ²Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Background/purpose: The effects of body composition disturbances on liver transplantation outcomes have recently been in focus. However, the effects of obesity, as well as sarcopenic…
2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Center Study of Factors That Increase Cognitive Load in Living Donor Liver Transplants.
A. Lee,¹ R. Khorzad,¹ E. Pomfret,² J. Guarrera,³ R. Fisher,⁴ M. Simpson,² A. Skaro,¹ A. Daud,¹ N. Salehitezangi,¹ D. Woods,¹ D. Ladner.¹
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA; ³Columbia University, New York, NY; ⁴Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy, Richmond, VA.
Background: Studies have shown that distractions in the operating room (such as phones/pagers, irrelevant conversations, ins and outs) can negatively affect concentration and performance, and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplant Has Similar Outcome to Deceased Donor Liver Transplant for MELD > 25.
M. Al Sebayel,¹ F. Abaalkhail,^1,2 M. Shoukri,¹ H. Albahili,^1,2 S. Alabbad,¹ W. AlHamoudi,^1,2,3 H. Albeshbeshy,¹ H. Elsiesy.^1,2
¹Liver Transplantation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ²Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ³Department of Gastroenterology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Background and Aims: Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is universally used to prioritize patients on the liver transplant (LT) waiting list. There has…