Articles tagged "Multivisceral transplantation"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Holes in the Safety-Net: Examining the Path to Kidney Transplantation for Liver Transplant Recipients with Persistent Kidney Dysfunction
A. J. Erhardt, M. J. Hobeika, T. Menser, A. Saharia, O. Okidi, C. Mobley, R. McMillan, L. W. Moore, H. Podder, S. Yi, R. J. Knight, A. Gaber, R. Ghobrial
Department of Surgery; J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The 2017 combined liver-kidney allocation modification provided early access to kidney transplantation (KT) for liver transplant (LT) recipients with severe post-LT kidney dysfunction. Although…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allograft Loss After Simultaneous Liver Kidney (SLK) Transplant Before and After the New SLK Allocation Criteria Implementation
A. P. Bregman¹, S. Jackson², N. Lim¹, J. Lake¹, S. Riad¹
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Analytics, Mhealth-Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: On August 10, 2017 UNOS/OPTN implemented new allocation criteria for simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplants. We sought to examine the association between the new allocation…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Adenovirus Enteritis Following Intestinal Transplantation
S. Jafri¹, A. Mavis², J. Weiner³, M. C. Segovia²
¹Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, ²Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Columbia, New York, NY
*Purpose: Intestinal transplant is a life-saving therapy for intestinal failure. Adenovirus Enteritis (AE) is an unusual infection identified on biopsy or serology following intestine or…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Surveillance with Protocol Biopsies for Rejection Significantly Impacts Survival Following Intestine Transplant
J. R. Sherwood¹, Y. Ichkhanian², N. Beltran³, S. Nagai³, S. Jafri⁴
¹Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ³Department of Transplant Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ⁴Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Frequent surveillance biopsy is required on the first month post intestinal transplant(IT) due to high-risk of acute rejection. However, the utility and the frequency…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Survival After Heart Transplant vs. Simultaneous Heart Kidney Transplant by Degrees of Renal Dysfunction at Engraftment in the United States: A Multivariable Analysis
S. M. Riad¹, M. Aljuhani¹, S. Jackson², T. Alexy¹, H. Wadie³, C. Martin¹, R. Kandaswamy⁴
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Eden Prairie, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁴Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: There has been a rising trend for utilizing kidneys in heart transplant candidates with different renal dysfunction degrees without established criteria to address this…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Aspergillus Infections in Intestinal Transplant Patients: Retrospective Cohort Study
A. Fernandez, M. Romero, Y. Natori, J. Camargo, S. Anjan, R. Vianna, J. Simkins
Miami Transplant Institute, Jackson Health System, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Aspergillus infection is the most common mold infection in solid organ transplant recipients and its consequences can be fatal. Data in intestinal transplants (ITx)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation Has Excellent Long-Term Outcomes
J. A. Steadman¹, J. M. Stulak¹, A. L. Clavell², S. S. Kushwaha², B. S. Edwards², N. L. Pereira², B. A. Boilson², A. Behfar², R. J. Rodeheffer², J. A. Dearani¹, T. Taner³, R. C. Daly¹
¹Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Transplantation Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Combined heart-liver transplants (CHLTx) have been shown to have good short-term outcomes in those with end-stage heart and liver disease: we conducted a comprehensive…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Previous Non-Renal Solid Organ Transplants
O. Cristea, C. Larsen, I. Badell
Emory Transplant Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Selective co-stimulatory blockade with belatacept has demonstrated long-term benefits in renal transplantation, with improved glomerular filtration rate and decreased risk of death and graft…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Liver Transplantation: A Case Series
J. G. Guorgui¹, T. Ito¹, M. M. Lu¹, P. Benharash², A. Ardehali³, V. Gudzenko⁴, C. Wray⁴, V. G. Agopian¹, J. DiNorcia III¹, H. Yersiz¹, D. G. Farmer¹, R. W. Busuttil¹, F. M. Kaldas¹
¹The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Department of Anesthesiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-saving treatment modality for patients who develop cardiopulmonary failure refractory to conventional efforts. ECMO has been used sparingly…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Abdominal Multiorgan Retrieval from Pigs in a Slaughterhouse: A Reliable and Efficient Donation after Circulatory Death Model for Ex Vivo Organ Perfusion
F. Neri, F. Dengu, G. Ebeling, L. Knijff, K. Rozemberg, J. Branchereau, P. Friend, R. Ploeg, J. Hunter
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Advances in organ perfusion technology have been driven by the increasing necessity to utilise organs from donors after circulatory death (DCD) and marginal donors.…