2019 American Transplant Congress
Correlations between Preoperative Hepatic Venous Pressure Gradient and Graft Hemodynamics after Reperfusion in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) is known to correlate with severity of portal hypertension in patients with liver cirrhosis. We retrospectively investigated the clinical…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy Based On Korean Multicenter Experience
*Purpose: Due to increased experience and knowledge in laparoscopic surgery in the era of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic donor hepatectomy is also being increasingly performed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor Exclusions and Shifting Trends in Living Liver Donor Evaluations: A Single Center Experience
Transplant Surgery, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Not many studies have reported the donor exclusion rates and reason for their decline in US. We aim to report the breakdown of donor…2019 American Transplant Congress
Difficult Outflow Reconstruction Using Eptfe Vascular Grafts In Ldlt: Technical Innovations And Outcomes.
*Purpose: Right liver allograft is a partial graft and hence, backtable reconstruction of undrained segments is crucial to increase the functional liver mass. Undrained segments…2019 American Transplant Congress
Expansion Of The Use Of Left Lobe Grafts In Adult Liver Transplantation In The United States: Different Strategy Between Deceased And Living Donor Grafts
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Left-lobe grafts are underused for adult liver transplantation in the United States. Better strategy is needed to expand the use of left lobe in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) at a Single Center- Intraoperative Technical Modifications and Optimization of Flow Dynamics to Improve Outcomes
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Objectives: While LDLT represents the dominant method of LTx in the East, it remains an underutilized procedure in the US, accounting for <5% of all…2018 American Transplant Congress
Modified Protocol for ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Rituximab and Intravenous Immunoglobulin without Plasma Exchange
Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center, Il-san Donggu, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
Purpose: Since a variety of desensitization strategies including rituximab, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), and plasma exchange (PE) have been introduced, the survival and outcomes of recipients…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Liver Donation: The Role of Facebook in Directed Donation
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Background: The aims of this study were to understand the number and type of directed living liver donors who contacted the transplant team after learning…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Safety and Efficacy of Splenic Artery Ligation in Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Introduction: Portal hypertension in recipients undergoing living donor liver transplant (LDLT) is thought to be one of the main causes of posttransplant graft dysfunction. In…2018 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of Partial Grafts in Pediatric Candidates with Acute Liver Failure Awaiting Liver Transplantation: SRTR Analysis over 26 Years
Objective: Pediatric fulminant hepatic failure (PFHF) is a devastating condition which portends a poor prognosis without liver transplantation (LT). In comparison to adult candidates, there…
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