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Articles tagged "Morbidity"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Predictive Value of Abnormal Hemodynamic Response to Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Liver Transplant Recipients

    M. Groose, A. Peotter, L. Hammel

    University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI

    *Purpose: Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is an effective tool for perioperative cardiac risk stratification in patients without end-stage liver disease (ESLD). However, DSE is frequently…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Bone Fractures Are Not Increased in Older Prior Living Kidney Donors

    H. Amer1, H. Maradit Kremers1, D. Larson1, I. Zaniletti1, W. K. Kremers1, A. Matas2, B. Kasiske3, S. Khosla1, R. Kumar1

    1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 3Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Living kidney donors were shown to have derangements of bone biomarkers resembling those occurring in early chronic kidney disease within 36 months of donation.…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Development and Validation of a Kidney Transplant-Specific Measure of Treatment Burden

    E. Lorenz1, T. Petterson1, I. Zaniletti1, K. Lackore1, B. Johnson1, M. Mai2, S. Nair3, A. Bentall1, K. Yost1, D. Eton1

    1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 3Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ

    *Purpose: Treatment burden refers to the work involved in managing one’s health and its impact on well-being. Treatment burden has been associated with nonadherence and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Post-Acute Sequelae of Sars-Cov-2 Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    S. Alasfar1, T. Chiang1, A. J. Snyder2, M. T. Ou1, B. Boyarsky1, A. T. Abedon1, J. L. Alejo1, W. Cochran1, J. M. Garonzik-Wang3, D. C. Brennan1, T. Vannorsdall1, D. L. Segev1, R. K. Avery1

    1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 3University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

    *Purpose: Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) is an increasingly recognized phenomenon manifested by long lasting cognitive, mental, and physical symptoms. We aimed to estimate…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Transplantation – Is There a Life After Death?

    B. Dorobantu

    General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania

    *Purpose: Organ donation and liver transplantation can transform the lack of hope and a terrible loss into a gift - new life that springs from…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Prevalence and Morbidity Associated with BK Virus in Heart Transplant Recipients

    A. Nguyen1, Z. Li2, N. F. Rasheed2, J. Cruz2, M. Fei3, G. Kim1, S. Pinney1, N. Uriel4

    1University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 3CareDx, Brisbane, CA, 4New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

    *Purpose: BK polyomavirus (BKV) is a quiescent polyomavirus that is present in approximately 80% of the population and can reactivate in immunocompromised patients and impair…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Kidney Transplant on Post-Operative Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Pre-Existing Cardiac Conditions (Low Ejection Fraction): A Case Series

    A. Kumar, C. Naso, D. Bacon, D. Gerber

    Abdominal Transplant Surgery, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

    *Purpose: Patients with underlying cardiac diseases have higher morbidity and mortality as compared to the patients without any cardiac diseases. There has been a number…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Sarcopenia and Testosterone Deficiency with Chronic Liver Disease; Post-Liver Transplant Utility of Short Term Testosterone Replacement Therapy

    A. Jain1, D. Haussner2

    1Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, 2Presbyterian, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Chronic liver disease is often associated with testosterone deficiency. However, testosterone therapy does not improve survival. So far, after a successful liver transplant (LTx),…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Measurement of Physical Activity and Frailty in the Early Post-Operative Period After Kidney Transplant-Single-Center Prospective Pilot Study Using Fitbit Watch

    T. Shamaa, L. Allenspach, O. Shamaa, S. Shimada, C. Crombez, O. Hage-Hassan, T. Kitajima, S. Yeddula, I. Bajjoka, L. Malinzak, J. Denny, D. Kim, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai

    Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI

    *Purpose: Physical activity monitors (PAMs) allow patients to track multiple health parameters. PAM’s may be helpful to assess a patient’s physical recovery after a Kidney…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Association of Chest CT Score During Acute COVID-19 Illness with Subsequent Lung Function Loss Among Lung Transplant Patients

    Q. M. Halverson, K. Batra, L. D. Mahan, M. Mohanka, A. C. Lawrence, J. Joerns, S. Bollineni, V. Kaza, I. L. Timofte, C. D. Kershaw, L. C. Terada, F. Torres, A. Banga

    University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: Limited data exists on CT chest abnormalities during acute Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and associated post-illness loss of lung function among lung transplant…
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