Articles tagged "Multivariate analysis"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation in Adults With End-Stage Liver Disease: Risk Factors in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3-5, Not on Maintenance Dialysis
A. Santos, E. Bueno, M. Leghrouz
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: We aimed to identify the risk factors for combined liver-kidney transplantation (CLKT) vs. liver transplantation alone (LTA) in end stage liver disease (ESLD) patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Sleep Quality and Psychosocial Factors in Liver Transplant Recipients from an Outpatient Follow-Up Clinic in China
X. Zhu, J. Liu, L. Liu, P. Mao
Transplantation Center, Third Xiangya Hospital, Changsha, China
*Purpose: Sleep disturbance is a severe problem in liver transplant recipients; few studies have confirmed the psychosocial factors associated with sleep quality in patients after…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Alterations in Left Ventricular Wall Thickness after Cardiac Transplantation
C. K. Alvarez, O. Saeed, S. R. Patel, E. Borukhov, U. Jorde
Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein, Bronx, NY
*Purpose: We investigated changes in cardiac wall thickness of donor hearts over time, including the peri-operative OHT period (within 4 days after transplantation) and up…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Is Total Ischemic Time a Measure of OPTN Efficiency? Monitoring the Impact of Lung Allocation Policy on Ischemic Time
A. M. Placona¹, R. R. Goff¹, P. Shay², B. Carrico¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Health Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: There is concern that the shift to circle based organ allocation policy may increase coordination costs. Within both public comment and the peer reviewed…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant: – The Effects of Early Steroid Withdrawal, Donor and Recipient Variables on Patient Survival
D. Kloda¹, M. McLeod², M. Romine¹, J. Ladowski², J. Locke¹, C. Young¹
¹Department of Surgery - Division of Transplantation, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ²Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) improves survival in type I diabetic patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Corticosteroids have traditionally been an integral component…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association of Discharge Immunosuppressive Regimen with Treated Acute Rejection and Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Adult Lung Transplantation: An Analysis of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Data
W. S. Cherikh¹, B. J. Plucinski¹, S. Palmer², W. E. Fitzsimmons³
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ³Fitzsimmons LLC, Vernon Hills, IL
*Purpose: The optimal immunosuppressive (IS) regimen after lung (LU) transplant is unknown. We conducted the current analysis to compare the effect of four different discharge…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association between Sarcopenia and Nutritional Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Kosoku¹, J. Uchida¹, T. Ishihara², T. Iwai¹, H. Shimada¹, K. Kabei¹, S. Nishide¹, T. Naganuma¹, T. Nakatani¹
¹Urology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, ²Innovative and Clinical Research Promotion Center, Gifu University Hospital, Gihu, Japan
*Purpose: Malnutrition is an important risk factor for the development of sarcopenia. Several methods are used for the assessment of nutritional status including serum albumin…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Optimal Timing of Renal Transplantation in Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplant: A Retrospective Analysis of the UNOS/OPTN Database
A. S. Karim, G. E. Leverson, J. W. Smith, D. P. Foley
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: In patients receiving a simultaneous heart-kidney transplant (SHKT) the optimal timing of performing the kidney transplant remains controversial. In the immediate approach (iHKT), the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
An Optimized Integrative Model Using Urinary Chemokines for Noninvasive Diagnosis of Acute Allograft Rejection
C. Tinel¹, A. Devresse¹, A. Vermorel¹, D. Marx², S. Caillard², C. Legendre¹, M. Rabant³, D. Anglicheau¹
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Inserm U1151, Necker Hospital, Paris, France, ²Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ³Pathology, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to optimize the performance of urinary chemokines C-X-C motif ligand (CXCL) 9 and CXCL10 as noninvasive diagnostic markers…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Survival after Lung Transplantation by Discharge Immunosuppressive Regimen: An Analysis of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Data
W. S. Cherikh¹, B. J. Plucinski¹, S. Palmer², W. E. Fitzsimmons³
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ³Fitzsimmons LLC, Vernon Hills, IL
*Purpose: As the optimal immunosuppressive (IS) regimen after lung (LU) transplant (TX) is unknown, we conducted an analysis to compare the effect of four different…