Articles tagged "Living-related liver donors"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to the Wider Utilization of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT).
A. Yegiants, E. Przybyszewski, A. Fox, J. Emond, B. Samstein.
Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Purpose: LDLT reduces waitlist mortality, improves access to transplantation and has post-transplant outcomes that are equivalent to or better than deceased donor transplant. Despite these…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Enteral Feeding After Living Donor Liver Transplantation Prevents Infectious Complications: A Prospective Pilot Study.
J. Kim,¹ D. Sinn,² S. Lee,¹ G.-S. Choi,¹ J. Park,¹ C. Kwon,¹ S. Kim,¹ J.-W. Joh,¹ S.-K. Lee.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ²Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Background: Infectious complications, including bacteria, virus, and fungus, often occur after liver transplantation and are the most frequent cause of in-hospital mortality. The present study…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Ideal Body Weight vs. Actual Body Weight for the Prediction of Small for Size Syndrome and Graft Loss After Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
M. Dib, N. Goldaracena, A. Barbas, M. Marquez, N. Alotaiby, G. Sapisochin, M. Cattral, L. Lilly, I. McGilvray, E. Renner, P. Greig, A. Ghanekar, N. Selzner, M. Selzner, D. Grant.
Transplantation, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Introduction: We compared the impact of estimating graft to recipient body weight ratio (GBWR) with actual body weight (ABW) and ideal body weight (IBW) on…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Children With Biliary Atresia in the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease Era: The Role of Age and Insurance Status.
J. Chu,^1,2 R. Annunziato,³ R. Aviles,³ R. Arnon.^1,2
¹Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY; ²Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY; ³Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.
Lower socioeconomic status has been linked to inferior health outcomes. We have previously shown that children with biliary atresia (BA) who have public insurance (PU)…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes After Splenectomy for Small-for-Size Syndrome in Live Donor Liver Transplantation.
M. Dib, N. Goldaracena, A. Barbas, M. Marquez, G. Sapisochin, C. Beriault, N. Selzner, I. McGilvray, E. Renner, P. Greig, L. Lilly, A. Ghanekar, M. Cattral, M. Selzner, D. Grant.
Transplantation, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Introduction: The use of lower volume liver grafts has the potential to expand the donor pool in adult-to-adult live donor liver transplantation (LDLT), but is…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Maternal Graft in Early Acute Cellular Rejection After Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Y. Noguchi,¹ T. Ueno,¹ K. Bessho,² Y. Takama,¹ H. Yamanaka,¹ N. Tanaka,¹ Y. Tazuke,¹ H. Okuyama.¹
¹Pediatric Surgery, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan; ²Pediatrics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Objectives: It has been reported that the living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in which the patients received a maternal graft could be more successful compared…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Split and Living Donor Versus Whole Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Adult Recipients: A Single Center Analysis
O. Boillot, O. Guillaud, J. Dumortier.
Liver Transplant Unit, Edouard Herriot Hospital, lyon, France.
INTRODUCTIONThe use of partial liver grafts in the context of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a matter ofdebate because of a supposed higher risk of cancer…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Pilot Study on Safety and Feasibility of Complete Meal Replacement in Liver Transplant Recipients and Potential Donors
F. Bhatti,¹ M. Jesse,³ K. George,² J. Centala,⁴ J. Ehrman,⁵ A. Eshelman,³ M. Abouljoud,³ K. Brown.
¹Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; ²Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; ³Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; ⁴Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; ⁵Cardiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) and hepatic steatosis (HS) are potential long-term complications after liver transplantation (LT). Post-LT caloric intake normalizes which can result in obesity.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The Product of Donor Age and Preoperative MELD, D-MELD, Predicts Surgical Outcomes After LDLT, When Using Small Graft
A. Tanemura, S. Mizuno, H. Kato, Y. Murata, N. Kuriyama, Y. Azumi, M. Kishiwada, M. Usui, H. Sakurai, S. Isaji.
Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan.
Background:Donor-recipient match is recognized as the factor well predicting recipient outcome in deceased donor liver transplantation. The aim of the present study is to evaluate…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Expanding the Donor Pool: Comparison of Outcomes in DCD Vs Living Donor Liver Transplantation
G. Sapisochin,¹ J. Seal,² N. Goldaracena,¹ T. Reichman,² J. Laurence,¹ H. Bohorquez,² I. McGilvray,¹ D. Bruce,² P. Greig,¹ I. Carmody,² M. Cattral,¹ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Grant,¹ G. Loss,² M. Selzner.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Toronto General Hospital. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Multi-Organ Transplant Institute, Ochner Medican Center, New Orleans, LA.
Living donors (LD) and donation after-circulatory-death (DCD) grafts represent important opportunities to increase the donor pool. We reviewed the combined experience at Toronto General Hospital…