2020 American Transplant Congress
Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation Has Excellent Long-Term Outcomes
*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
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
*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
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.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Pediatric Outcomes of Simultaneous vs. Sequential Liver-Kidney Transplantation: A Review of the UNOS Database
*Purpose: The long-term pediatric outcomes of simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplantation and sequential liver and kidney transplantation, liver after kidney (LAK) and kidney after liver (KAL),…2019 American Transplant Congress
Measuring and Monitoring Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation Associated with Being Listed for a Multi-Organ Transplant (MOT)
*Purpose: In 2018, the OPTN published a new methodology for measuring and monitoring disparities in access to deceased donor kidney (KI) transplantation (Tx) among kidney-alone…2019 American Transplant Congress
Visceral Arterial Embolization – An Important Tool For Managing Blood Loss In Multivisceral Transplant Candidates With Portomesenteric Thrombosis
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Organ explant in multivisceral transplant (MVT) candidates is technically demanding associated with high volume blood loss. Visceral arterial embolisation (VAE) may reduce bleeding, but…2019 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Vascularized Abdominal Wall Allograft Procurement – Lessons Learned from Early Experiences
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Vascularized abdominal wall allografts (AWA), which protect solid organs in patients with loss of abdominal domain or extensive abdominal wall damage, remain an essential…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Propensity Matched Survival Analysis: Do Simultaneous Liver-Lung Transplant Recipients Need a Liver?
1School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC; 2Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Objective: There is debate whether simultaneous lung-liver transplant (LLT) long-term outcomes warrant allocation of two organs to a single recipient. We hypothesized that LLT recipients…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Protective Effect of Multivisceral Transplantation on Intestinal Allograft Rejection – Its Correlation with T-Cell Macrochimerism from a Long-Term Prospective Study
Objective Graft rejection remains the crux of intestinal transplantation. Although liver-inclusive grafts appear to be protective, the mechanism remains unknown. We hypothesize that T-cell macrochimerism…
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