Articles tagged "Living-related liver donors"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Postoperative Pain Care in Living Liver Donors.
M. Mandell,¹ A. Smith,^2,6 D. Gordon,³ S. Holtzman,⁴ M. Dew,⁵ T. Howell,⁶ A. DiMartini,⁵ Z. Butt,⁸ M. Simpson,⁷ C. Freise,⁹ S. McCluskey,¹⁰ R. Fisher,¹¹ J. Guaerra,¹² K. Olthoff,¹³ E. Pomfret.⁷
¹U of Colorado, Denver; ²Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor; ³U of Washington, Seattle; ⁴U of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada; ⁵U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ⁶U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁷Lahey, Burlington; ⁸Northwestern U, Chicago; ⁹U of California at San Francisco, San Francisco; ¹⁰U of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ¹¹Virginia Commonwealth U, Richmond; ¹²Columbia U, New York; ¹³U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Background: Postoperative pain (POP) is the strongest predictor of chronic pain syndromes (Katz and Seltzer, Expert Rev Neurother 2009), however little is known about POP…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Efficiency, Safety and Cost of Evaluating Living Donor Liver Candidates Using Single Sequence MRI.
M. Schilsky,^1,2 K. Cartiera,¹ S. Boga,¹ S. Schilsky,³ S. Emre,¹ D. Mulligan,¹ J. Weinreb,¹ G. Israel.¹
¹Yale New Haven Transplantation Center, Transplantation and Immunology, Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT; ²Section of Digestive Diseases, Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT; ³Food and Drug Administration, Silver Springs, MD.
Background: Current evaluation of donor candidates for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant (LDLT) includes MRI and CT without and with contrast for defining liver anatomy.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Laparoscopically Assisted Living Donor Hepatectomy Is Safe and Cost Effective.
M. Akoad, M. Simpson, E. Pomfret.
Transplantation, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
The surgical technique employed during living donor hepatectomy (LDH) has evolved since the inception of the procedure, but donor safety is always paramount. We review…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Center and Surgeons' Experience Improves Outcome in Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Validation of the Report of the A2ALL Consortium.
S. Nagai, A. Yoshida, M. Rizzari, K. Collins, D. Kim, M. Abouljoud.
Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background: Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL) has reported improved outcomes in centers with greater experience (>20 cases). The aim of this study…
2016 American Transplant Congress
When Living Donor Liver Allografts Fail: Exploring the Pitfalls of Retransplantation Using Deceased Donor Organs.
T. Bittermann,¹ A. Shaked,² K. Lloyd,² D. Goldberg.¹
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Background: In the US, living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is associated with increased long-term graft and patient survival compared to deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT).…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor Liver Transplantation with Older Donors Only Impacts on a Late HCV Recurrence.
N. Goldaracena, G. Sapisochin, A. Barbas, M. Dib, D. Al-Adra, N. Selzner, M. Cattral, P. Greig, L. Lilly, I. McGilvray, G. Levy, A. Ghanekar, E. Renner, D. Grant, M. Selzner.
Abdominal Organ Transplant, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Introduction:Impact of donor age on HCV recurrence in live donor liver transplant (LDLT) recipients is controversial. We compared HCV progression in recipients receiving a graft…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Hospital Readmissions Following Discharge After Liver Transplantation (LT).
E. Minja, S. Chinnakotla, K. Yadav, A. Pugalenthi, O. Serrano, R. Kandaswamy, W. Payne, T. Pruett, V. Kirchner.
Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Background:Our objective was to describe incidence and causes readmissions within 30 days of discharge following liver transplantation (LT).Methodology:Medical records of 1027 consecutive patients who underwent…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Mothers Are Often Sensitized and Sensitive: Antibody Mediated Rejection in Child to Mother Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
B. Movahedi,¹ N. Yu,² P. Martins,¹ A. Ahearn,¹ J. Stoff,¹ A. Bozorgzadeh.¹
¹Division of Organ Transplantation, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA; ²Clinical Pathology, Histocompatibility Laboratory, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA.
Background: Partial graft is especially more vulnerable to deleterious effects of donor specific HLA antibodies (DSA). Living liver donors and recipients are often family members.…
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.…