Articles tagged "Living-related liver donors"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Is Low Systemic Fibrinolytic Activity During the Anhepatic Phase Liver Transplant Surgery Associate with the Dreaded Post-Operative Complication of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis?
H. B. Moore¹, Y. Bababekov¹, J. Pomposelli¹, T. Ferrell¹, F. Azam¹, M. Adams², D. Yoeli¹, R. Choudhury¹, M. Wachs², E. Pomfret¹, T. Nydam¹
¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Removal of the native liver during transplantation results in impaired clearance of clot degrading proteins and activation of fibrinolysis as appreciated by Starzl in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Paired Exchanges in LDLT- A Good Option for Patients with Incompatible Donors
A. Humar, C. Hughes, G. Mazariegos, S. Kyle, A. Gallatin, K. Emmett, A. Tevar, M. Molinari, A. Ganoza, V. Gunabushanam, S. Ganesh
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: In the US, paired exchanges are common for LD kidney transplant but not for LDLT. We present our series of paired exchanges for LDLT,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Growing LDLT Volumes at a US Center- What Does It Take to Do Over 100 LDLTs Per Year
A. Humar, C. Hughes, G. Mazariegos, K. Soltys, A. Gallatin, K. Emmett, A. Tevar, M. Molinari, A. Ganoza, V. Gunabushanam, S. Ganesh
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: LDLT remains underutilized in the US, accounting for
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison Study of Liver Regeneration in Laparoscopic versus Open Right Hemihepatectomy for Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
J. Kim, J. Yang, J. Rhu, G. Choi, J. Joh
Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: This study aims to compare differences between laparoscopic donor right hemihepatectomy (LDRH) and open donor right hemihepatectomy (ODRH) in the quality of the operation,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Beyond UCSF Criteria: Tumor Biology Not the Tumor Number Decide the Long Term Outcome- A Single Center Retrospective Analysis of Using Extended Criteria
A. Thorat, L. Jeng, S. Hsu, H. Yang, P. Li, T. Chen, K. Poon
Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
*Purpose: HCC is the fifth most common cancer and the third most frequent cause of cancer deaths worldwide. After its introduction for LT in HCC…
2020 American Transplant Congress
National Experience with Living Donor Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
J. Silverstein¹, F. Yao¹, J. D. Grab², H. Braun², J. Roberts², J. Dodge², N. Mehta¹
¹Dept of Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Dept of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: LDLT is an attractive option to decrease both wait time and risk of waitlist dropout in HCC. This study aimed to evaluate temporal and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Opioid Prescription Pattern and Risk Factors Associated with Opioid Use after Living Donor Hepatectomy in the US
M. Nguyen¹, L. Vest², Z. Zhang², V. Whittaker³, M. Schnitzler¹, D. Axelrod⁴, H. Randall¹, C. Varma¹, J. Snyder⁵, B. Kasiske⁵, D. Segev⁶, M. McAdams Demarco⁷, G. Hess⁸, K. Lentine²
¹Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ²Department of Medicine, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ³Department of Surgery, New York Medical College, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ⁶Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁷Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁸Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Opioids are the cornerstone of acute pain management after living donor hepatectomy. Their misuse poses the danger of chronic abuse. How this affects living…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Higher Probability of Living Donor Liver Transplantation is Associated with DSAs Having a Higher Median Meld at Transplant
D. Haakinson¹, S. Noreen², D. Stewart², R. Batra¹, G. Gan¹, Y. Deng¹, S. Kulkarni¹
¹Yale, New Haven, CT, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Recent studies show that outcomes of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) are superior compared to those receiving deceased donor grafts. Access to deceased donor…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Human Live Donor Liver Transplantation is Associated with Pd-l1 Expression on Donor-Exosome-Acquiring Host Dendritic Cells
D. Lema, E. Jankowska-Gan, D. Al-Adra, W. Burlingham
Surgery- Transplantation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LTx) has been associated with the phenomenon of “cross-dressing” of recipient dendritic cells (DCs) by donor exosome-derived MHC antigens, and acquisition of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Expanding Utilization of Living Donor Liver Transplantation tn the United States
K. N. Wanis¹, A. Sarvet¹, M. J. Stensrud¹, B. Al-Judaibi², K. Tomiyama³, R. Hernandez-Alejandro³
¹Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ²Division of Transplantation, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ³Division of Transplantation/Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
*Purpose: We estimated the effect that expansion of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) would have on mortality for individuals added to the waitlist.*Methods: Using data…