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Articles tagged "Morbidity"

  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Impact of Antecedent Bariatric Surgery on Liver Transplant Outcomes: A Retrospective Matched Case-Control Study

    O. Serrano,1 K. Peterson,1 D. Vock,2 D. Berglund,1 R. Kandaswamy,1 J. Lake,3 T. Pruett,1 S. Chinnakotla.1

    1Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 2Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 3Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

    OBJECTIVE: Bariatric surgery (BS) is associated with significant malabsorption and nutritional deficiencies, which can have profound consequences on the liver transplant (LT) patient. The magnitude…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Post Reperfusion Portal Flow Rate Impacts Liver Allograft and Patient Survival in Patients with Pre Transplant Portal Vein Thrombosis

    M. Rizzari, M. Safwan, M. Sobolic, S. Nagai, R. Schilke, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud.

    Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.

    Background: Pre-transplant (pretx) portal vein thrombosis (PVT) not only makes the technical aspect of liver transplantation more challenging, it also is known to affect outcomes.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Host Factors and Clinical Spectrum of Adenovirus Infection in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation: A Closer Look at the Infant, the Toddler and the Child

    C. Del Valle Mojica, S. Chen, H. Gans.

    Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

    Adenovirus (AdV) is increasingly recognized in solid organ transplants (SOT), with reported mortality exceeding 50%. Characterization of AdV infection in the pediatric SOT population is…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long Term Renal and Patient Risks for Living Kidney Donors

    Y. Kim, M. Yu, Y. Kim, H. Lee.

    Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

    Purpose:Recent studies have issued that living kidney donor (LKD) might be exposed to higher risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and death, compared with healthy…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Does Pre-Operative Angiographic Kidney Embolization Decrease Complications in Allograft Nephrectomy?

    D. Harriman, V. Mujumdar, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, R. Stratta.

    Surgery, Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC.

    Introduction: Morbidity associated with allograft nephrectomy (AN) for treatment of failed or diseased kidney transplants is well documented. Pre-operative angiographic kidney embolization (PAKE), which induces…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluating Center Performance beyond Patient and Graft Survival

    S. Asrani, G. Saracino, R. Bahirwani, G. McKenna, G. Klintmalm, J. Trotter.

    Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

    Introduction: LT centers are judged by patient survival at 1-yr post LT; however risk incurred on the waitlist or center specific practices post LT are…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Treatment of HCV Infection in Renal Transplant Recipients

    M. Rial, L. Tana, C. Alonso, H. Curcio, E. Chulluyan, D. Casadei.

    Renal Transplant Unit, Instituto de Nefrologia Nephrology, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    HCV infection is associated to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatic carcinoma and increased incidence of diabetes. Combination of new antiviral drugs have demonstrated utility in liver…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Performance-Based vs. Self-Reported Functional Assessment on Outcomes After Kidney Transplant.

    K. Tibaldi, N. Dhillon, R. Goldberg, H. Paniagua, A. Patel.

    Renal and Pancreas Transplant Department, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

    Reduced functional capacity (FC) is associated with poor outcomes and early hospital readmission after kidney transplant (KT). The aim of the study was to determine…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    State Population Health and Center-Level Variation in Rate of Living Kidney Donation.

    R. Reed, B. Shelton, P. MacLennan, M. Hanaway, V. Kumar, R. Gaston, J. Locke.

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham

    Background: Comorbid conditions that exclude individuals from living kidney donation are highly prevalent in the United States, but the relationship between population characteristics and the…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A Comparison of Desensitization Protocols: Rituximab with/without Plasmapheresis in ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation.

    E. Lee, S. Kim, S. Lee, S.-J. Park.

    Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

    Background: Plasmapheresis is a desensitization method used prior to ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). However, studies on its usefulness in the rituximab era…
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