2019 American Transplant Congress
Near-Miss Events during Donor Left Liver Lobe Hepatectomy: A Potential Quality-Control to Assess Donor Safety in Living Donor Liver Transplantation Programs
Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc - Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a well-established alternative to alleviate postmortem organ shortage in pediatric liver transplantation. Such program, however, should be performed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cardiovascular Mortality in Transplant Patients; A Population-Based Cohort Study 1988-2013 in Australia and New Zealand
*Purpose: Transplant recipients experience excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We compared cardiovascular death rates in kidney transplant recipients to the general population and identified risk…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cardiac Risk Assessment in Kidney Transplant Candidates: Clinical Usefulness of Different Guidelines
*Purpose: Despite cardiovascular (CV) assessment recommended all kidney transplant recipients to minimize perioperative risk, the utility and reliability of various assessments are not well established.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Advanced Immunological T-cell Ageing Defined by a Very Low Thymic Function Identifies Patients with a Substantial Increased Risk for Long-Term Mortality after Kidney Transplantation
Nephrology & Transplantation, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: End-stage renal disease is associated with premature ageing of the T-cell immune system. At the time of kidney transplantation the average biological age of…2019 American Transplant Congress
Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Renal Transplant Recipients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Nationwide Analysis
*Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the hospitalization rate for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) among renal transplant patients with adult polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and its…2019 American Transplant Congress
Identification Of Pre-transplant Biomarkers Of Recipient Immune Dysfunction That Predict Recipient Risk Of Death Following Liver Transplant: The Immune Frailty Index
*Purpose: Cirrhosis-related immune dysfunction is well recognized and likely contributes to early mortality following liver transplant (LT) resulting from infections; however, few prior studies have…2019 American Transplant Congress
Dialysis Lowers Pulmonary Embolism Mortality Risk in Kidney Transplantation
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
*Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to assess the risk of mortality attributed to pulmonary embolism in kidney transplant recipients. We also wanted…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Benefit of Kidney Transplantation over the Waitlist Depends on the Patient’s Comorbidities
*Purpose: This study aimed to determine the impact of different comorbidities to the survival benefit of Kidney Transplantation (KTx) compared to waitlisted (WL) patients in…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Revised Policy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma MELD Exception Points on Recurrence after Liver Transplantation
1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: On October 8, 2015, a revised liver policy regarding HCC exception scores was implemented with the intention to create a better balance in transplant…2019 American Transplant Congress
Elevated Visceral Adiposity is Associated with Post-Liver Transplant Mortality and Poorly Correlates with BMI in a Prospective Cohort Study
Division of Liver Diseases and Transplantation, Columbia Univerisity Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Obesity is increasingly common in end-stage-liver disease (ESLD). While obesity adversely affects outcomes, whether abnormalities in specific adipose tissue (AT) compartments lead to increased…
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