Articles tagged "Living-related liver donors"

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…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Reduced Rituximab with Prophylactic Antibiotic Treatment Improves the Infectious Complications in Patients Undergoing ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
S.-C. Hsu, A. Thorat, L.-B. Jeng, H.-R. Yang, P.-C. Li, C.-C. Yeh, T.-H. Chen, K.-S. Poon.
Organ Transplantation, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Introduction:ABO incompatible (ABOi) living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a feasible alternative for donor liver allograft in emergency situations. The reported outcomes of ABOi-LDLT after…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Combined Endoscopic and Percutaneous Cholangiography for Biliary Anastomotic Stricture in Adult Right-Lobe Living-Donor Liver Transplantation.
A. Thorat,¹ W.-H. Huang,² C.-J. Yu,² C.-Y. Peng,² H.-R. Yang,¹ C.-C. Yeh,¹ T.-H. Chen,¹ S.-C. Hsu,¹ L.-B. Jeng.¹
¹Organ Transplantation, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; ²Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Background:Biliary anastomotic stricture isthe most common biliary complication after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) that may be potentially life threatening if biliary sepsis occurs.Endoscopic retrograde…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Desensitization Regimen for the Patients with High Isoagglutinin Titers to Undergo Adult ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
W.-C. Lee, C.-F. Lee, T.-H. Wu, Y.-C. Wang, C.-H. Cheng, T.-J. Wu, H.-S. Chou, K.-M. Chan.
Liver and Transplantation Surgery, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Background: Adult living donor liver transplantation can be performed across ABO blood type barrier successfully by depleting B cells using rituximab. However, the patients with…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Extending the Limit for Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Similar Outcomes After Left vs. Right Lobe Graft, a Propensity Score Analysis.
T. Wong, K. Ng, J. Fung, K. Chok, A. Chan, C. Lo.
Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
BackgroundThis study aimed to investigate the impact of graft selection (left vs. right lobe) in LDLT.MethodThis was a retrospective study that included all patients who…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Portal Vein Complication After Living Donor Right Hepatectomy.
D.-H. Jung, S.-G. Lee, S. Hwang, K.-H. Kim, C.-S. Ahn, D.-B. Moon, T.-Y. Ha, G.-W. Song, W.-J. Kim, S.-H. Kim, W.-H. Kang, J.-H. Kwon, E.-K. Jwa, H.-D. Cho.
Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
BackgroundLiving donor hepatectomy may carry a significant risk of morbidity and mortality for the otherwise healthy donor. Portal vein (PV) complication after donor hepatectomy is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Living and Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Recipients According to the MELD Score.
J. Lee, J. Lee, S. Song, J. Lee, S.-K. Kwon, D. Joo, M. Ju, G. Choi, J. Choi, S. Kim, M. Kim.
Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
BackgroundLiving donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has developed as an alternative to decease donor liver transplantation (DDLT) to overcome the critical shortage of deceased organ donations.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Opioid-Sparing Pain Management Improves Outcomes and Safety in Living Liver Donors.
D. Ladner,¹ E. Pomfret,² M. Simpson,² J. Guarrera,³ R. Fisher,⁴ A. Skaro,¹ T. Baker,¹ T. Curtis,¹ A. Daud,¹ B. Platt,¹ R. Kang,¹ N. Salehitezangi,¹ J. Holl,¹ M. Abecassis,¹ D. Woods.¹
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA; ³Columbia University, New York, NY; ⁴Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy, Richmond, VA.
BACKGROUND: As part of the ancillary four center study, to the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Cohort Study (A2ALL), over 75% of living liver donors…