2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Nephrectomy: Is It as Safe as It Can Be? Analysis of Living Donor Deaths in the United States
The reported rate of death from living donor nephrectomy is 3 in 10,000 donations. Although this risk is low, the important question is how many…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improving Prediction of Post-Transplant Death and Graft Loss with Expanded Clinical Data Collection
US transplant centers are graded for patient and graft survival of their recipients based on comparison to risk-adjusted expectations using elements captured in the national…2018 American Transplant Congress
Specialized Transplant Critical Care Model Improves Access to Transplantation and Short-Term Survival Outcomes after Liver Transplantation in the Highest Acuity Patients
Objective: Liver transplantation (LT) is a lifesaving treatment for end stage liver disease (ESLD). High acuity ESLD patients are disadvantaged as they are frequently denied…2018 American Transplant Congress
How Safe is Crossing the ABO Blood Group Barrier? A Meta-Analysis to Determine the Additive Risk of ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation
Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Background ABO blood group-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation is considered a safe procedure, with non-inferior outcomes in large cohort studies. Its contribution to living kidney transplantation…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Outcomes of Candidates Underwent Liver Transplantaion with Portopulmonary Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis
Background: Portopulmonary hypertension(PPH) was once regarded as a contraindicaton in liver transplantation(LT).However,growing evidence indicated that PPH patients underwent LT may show similar outcomes compared to…2018 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Renal and Patient Risks for Living Kidney Donors
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
Disparate Risk Factors for Early and Late Death Impact Survival after Lung Transplant
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Purpose: After implementation of the lung allocation score, there has been improvement in one- and three-year survival but not in five-year survival after lung transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Antihypertensive Medication Use after Kidney Transplant: Practice Variation and Clinical Outcomes
Hypertension is common among kidney transplant (KTx) recipients, but the impact of antihypertensive medication (AHM) choice on patient and graft outcomes is not well defined.We…2018 American Transplant Congress
Implementation of the Lung Allocation Score is Associated with Decreased Mortality in Combined Liver-Lung Allograft Recipients
1School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC; 2Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Objective: The current system for simultaneous liver-lung transplant (LLT) generally matches a recipient with a donor based on his or her lung allocation score (LAS),…2018 American Transplant Congress
Estimation of Mortality on the Wait List
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Background: Since the introduction of MELD and MELDNa, the waitlist population has changed. Further, serum creatinine is a poor surrogate of renal dysfunction in patients…
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