2022 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Hepatic Graft Survival in Extended Criteria Donors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Comparative Studies
*Purpose: Extended Criteria Donors include several definitions. These criteria vary across transplant centers and often rely on the center policy. The present meta-analysis analyzed graft…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pooled Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in Lung Transplant Recipients – A Meta-Analysis
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Similar to other operations, lung transplantation surgery has been associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism. While various studies have aimed to estimate…2021 American Transplant Congress
Mortality in Organ Transplant Recipients with Covid-19 Compared to Non-transplant or Waitlisted Patients: A Meta-analysis
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University, Providence, RI
*Purpose: Organ transplant recipients (OTR) are considered at high risk for adverse outcomes from COVID-19. However, mortality rates range from 30%. Some studies found that…2021 American Transplant Congress
A Meta-Analysis of Endoscopic Stents in the Treatment of Anastomotic Biliary Strictures After Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Biliary strictures (BS) are common after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The treatment of choice is endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Multiple plastic stents (MPS) have…2021 American Transplant Congress
Donation After Circulatory Death Kidney Transplantation Has Equal Long-Term Graft and Patient Survival as Donation After Brain Death: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) kidneys are not worldwide accepted yet due to concerns about inferior quality. To investigate whether these concerns are justified,…2021 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Terlipressin Therapy Reduces the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Post-Living Donor Liver Transplantation – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
*Purpose: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after liver transplantation precludes calcineurin inhibitors' therapy and is associated with poor outcomes. Terlipressin (Tp) has mortality benefit in pre-transplant…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Composite Molecular and Cellular Instability Score Identifies the Sub-Phenotypes of Histologically Stable Kidney Transplants
Department of Surgery, BCHSI, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Recent molecular studies have highlighted the unrecognized burden of sub-clinical graft rejection of a histologically stable allograft, defined as transplants with absence of clinical…2020 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery to Improve Candidacy for Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: There is a growing epidemic of obesity in patients with end stage kidney disease in need of kidney transplant, paralleling the general population. Most…2020 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery to Improve Candidacy for Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: As non-alcoholic steatohepatitis grows as an indication for liver transplant, the challenge managing obese pre-liver transplant patients will become more pronounced, especially because most…2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors of Invasive Fungal Infections in Liver Transplantation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: Invasive fungal infection (IFI) remains one of the most common infectious complications after solid organ transplantation. Liver transplant recipients (LTRs) have a higher mortality…
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