Articles tagged "Living-related liver donors"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Steatosis by PDFF Affects Percent Remnant Liver Regeneration in Living Donors without Impacting on Clinical Outcomes
A. Duarte-Rojo, Q. Qi, K. Chupetlovska, D. R. Jorgensen, A. A. Borhani, A. Furlan, S. Ganesh, A. Humar
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Mild steatosis (5-33% of fat) is not expected to affect liver regeneration following partial hepatectomy. Novel methods to assess steatosis, such as proton density…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Primary Indications and Waitlist Status for Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplants
K. Goli¹, K. Hosek², A. Rana³, J. Goss³, T. Miloh³
¹Rice University, Houston, TX, ²Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ³Abdominal Transplant, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Since 1989, living donor liver transplantation (LD) has been used for a selected population and has shown improved long-term graft survival. The aim was…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcome Of Living Donor Liver Transplantation In Elderly Patients >65 Years With And Without Hepatocellular Carcinomas: A Retroepsective Analysis
A. Thorat, L. Jeng, S. Hsu, H. Yang, C. Yeh, T. Chen, K. Poon, P. Li
Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
*Purpose: The elderly patients > 65 years with end-stage liver disease that require liver transplantation has been steadily increased over last decade in Taiwan and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Adult Living Donor vs. Deceased Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT vs. DDLT) at a Single US Center- Time to Change Our Paradigm for Liver Transplant
A. Humar, D. Jorgensen, S. Ganesh, A. Tevar, M. Molinari, C. Hughes
Thomas E Starzl Transplant Inst, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: LDLT remains underutilized in the US. We compared outcomes between LDLT and DDLT at our center to highlight the advantages of LDLT.*Methods: Retrospective review…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Do Reimbursement Programs Increase The Number Of Living Organ Donations?
A. Siddique¹, J. Ortiz², S. Fry-Revere², V. Apte², Y. Jin³, N. Koizumi¹
¹Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, ²University of Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH, ³The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
*Purpose: Living-donor kidney transplantation is the gold standard treatment for the end-stage renal disease. However, living donors worldwide face significant financial and logistic barriers. To…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of the Global Practice of Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Comparison of U.S. and International Programs
J. Emamaullee¹, M. Kim¹, C. Conrad¹, C. Lane¹, P. Singh¹, C. Niemann², L. Sher¹, Y. Genyk¹
¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: As programs have become more experienced with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), technical hurdles have been overcome and superior graft and patient survival has…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Platelets Stimulate Liver Regeneration in a 30% Partial Liver Transplantation Model in Rat
C. Liang, K. Takahashi, T. Oda, N. Ohkohchi
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
*Purpose: Thirty years after the first living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), this technique has been widely recognized as the golden standard in treatment of end-stage…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Sequential Liver Kidney Transplant Has Comparable Outcomes As Combined Liver Kidney Transplant Except For Ckd 5 In Patient With Cld With Ckd In Live Donor Program- Retrospective Analysis Of 2182 Cases
S. Verma, S. Naganathan, S. Gupta
Center for Liver and Biliary Sciences, Max Superspeciality hospital, New Delhi, India
*Purpose: Chronic Kidney disease (CKD) is common in patient with Chronic liver disease (CLD). It is difficult to distinguish between CKD and Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Features and Prognosis of Diffuse Intrahepatic Biliary Stricture in Adult ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation
J. Kwon, G. Song, S. Hwang, K. Kim, C. Ahn, D. Moon, T. Ha, D. Jung, G. Park, Y. Yoon, H. Cho, I. Jeong, J. Choi, S. Yoo, S. Lee
Division of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Despite the advancement in desensitization protocol, diffuse intrahepatic biliary stricture (DIHBS), an attenuated form of antibody mediated rejection (AMR), remains an unresolved problem. As…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Renal Transplantation from a Living Donor with a Horseshoe Kidney
J. CHOI, J. Jung, J. Kim, H. Kwon, S. Shin, Y. Kim, D. Han
Division of Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Horseshoe kidney is one of the most common urinary congenital abnormalities, with an incidence of 1 in 400 to 800. Because of complexity, the…