Articles tagged "Living-related liver donors"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Occult Multifocal Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Surgical Patients.
D. Aufhauser Jr,¹ E. Sadot,² D. Murken,¹ K. Eddinger,¹ D. Goldberg,³ E. Furth,⁴ P. Abt,¹ R. DeMatteo,² M. Levine.¹
¹Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; ³Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Pathology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: Resection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with high rates of intrahepatic recurrence. However, it is unclear whether recurrence results from occult multifocal disease…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Personal Relationships and Financial Outcomes in Living Liver Donors.
A. DiMartini,¹ M. Dew,¹ Q. Liu,² M. Simpson,³ D. Ladner,⁴ A. Smith,^2,5 J. Zee,² S. Abbey,⁶ B. Gillespie,⁵ R. Weinrieb,⁷ S. Mandell,⁸ R. Fisher,⁹ J. Emond,¹⁰ C. Freise,¹¹ Z. Butt.⁴
¹U Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ²Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor; ³Lahey, Burlington; ⁴Northwestern U, Chicago; ⁵U Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁶U Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ⁷U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ⁸U Colorado, Denver; ⁹Virginia Commonwealth U, Richmond; ¹⁰Columbia U, New York; ¹¹U California at San Francisco, San Francisco.
Background:Little is known about living liver donation's impact on donor personal relationships and financial outcomes. We examined these areas in a prospective 9-center liver donor…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor Champion Program: Time to Redefine Living Liver Donation.
D. Maluf, A. Sites, M. Donovan, J. Wang, E. Lyster, C. Argo.
UVA Surgery, Charlottesville, VA.
Live Donor Champion (LDC) Programs promote the advocacy for living donor transplantation by patients' family members or friends. Hereby, we conducted a prospective 9 month…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Analysis of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Living-Donor Liver Transplantation.
D. Kim, G. Na, T. Hong, Y. You.
Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea.
Purpose: For living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT), there has been a tendency to accept extended criteria in comparison with deceased-donor liver transplantation (DDLT). However, HCC recurrence…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Technique of “Loop V-Plasty” for Combined Reconstruction of the Middle Hepatic Vein and Multiple Inferior Right Hepatic Veins Using Single Polytetrafluoroethylene Graft in a Right Lobe Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
T.-H. Chen, L. Noriega, A. Thorat, P.-C. Li, H.-R. Yang, S.-C. Hsu, L. Jeng, M.-L. Li.
Organ Transplantation, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Outflow reconstruction is a crucial step in living donor liver transplantation(LDLT)for proper graft functioning as any inadequacy of the venous drainage can cause severe graft…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Durable Clinical and Immunologic Advantage of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT) in Children.
E. Przybyszewski,¹ S. Lobritto,¹ M. Martinez,¹ J. Vittorio,¹ A. Fox,¹ B. Samstein,² T. Kato,¹ A. Griesemer,¹ J. Emond.¹
¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; ²Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
Purpose:Despite good results, only 10% of liver transplants in children in the US are from living donors. In addition to optimal timing and graft quality,…
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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Minimum Graft Size Avoiding Small-for-Size Associated Early Graft Failure in Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
S. Marubashi,¹ H. Nagano,³ H. Eguchi,² H. Wada,² K. Umeshita,² Y. Doki,² M. Mori,² N. Sato,¹ T. Kimura,¹ A. Kenjyo,¹ M. Gotoh.¹
¹Regenerative Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan; ²Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
Small-for-size syndrome (SFSS) is a serious complication in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors for…