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…2019 American Transplant Congress
Share 21 Rather Than Share 15: Balancing Transplant Opportunity without Compromising Waitlist Outcomes
*Purpose: We recently reported that, with the introduction of Meld-Na liver allocation, the score at which patients clearly benefit from liver transplant as opposed to…2019 American Transplant Congress
A Single Measurement of Torque Teno Virus Helps to Predict Mortality in Renal Transplant Patients
*Purpose: Multiple studies have used longitudinal Torque Teno Virus (TTV) measurements to assess the immune status after transplantation. Longitudinal measurements generally show a TTV load…2019 American Transplant Congress
Treprostinil as a Bridge Therapy to Heart-Lung Transplants with Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
*Purpose: Heart-lung transplants (HLTx) is the only one effective strategy for advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) with refractory right heart failure. But limited availability of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating the Impact of Pre-Transplant Malignancy on Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation: A National Database Analysis over a Twenty-Two Year Period
Dept. of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Introduction: Patients with a history of malignancy prior to kidney transplantation are known to develop more post-transplant malignancies and have inferior outcomes. However, there have…2018 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus and the Risk of Graft Loss or Death in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Trial-Based Linkage Study
Background: The use of mTORIs may be associated with a reduction of cancer incidence after kidney transplantation (KT) and improved graft function compared with calcineurin-inhibitor…2018 American Transplant Congress
Containment of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Infections at a Solid Organ Transplant Centre
1ISMETT-IRCCS, Palermo, Italy; 2University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
Objectives The aim is to describe epidemiology and analyze the effectiveness of the intervention in CRE containment in SOT patients (pts).Methods In 2012 a taskforce…
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