2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Survival Outcomes in Combined Intestinal-Kidney Transplant: An Analysis of the UNOS/OPTN Database 2000-2014.
Medicine/Nephrology, Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Background: Intestinal transplants (isolated/modified/multi-visceral) carry a high morbidity and mortality. Kidney outcomes after combined intestinal (IT) with kidney transplant (CIKT) remain largely uninvestigated.Methods: The UNOS…2016 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Techniques in Modified Multiorgan Transplantation.
Objective: Investigate the clinical efficacy of combined en-bloc liver-pancreas transplantation in patients with end stage liver disease and diabetes.Method: The clinical data of 19 cases…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Surgical Preconditioning in Patients with Ultra-Short Gut Using a Native Colonic Conduit for Anticipated Visceral Transplantation.
Center of Gut Rehabilitation and Transplant, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Objective: The last decade witnessed the significant improvement in the morbidity and mortality of short gut syndrome (SGS) patients. However, still a challenge is the…2015 American Transplant Congress
Vascularised Composite Allografts and Intestinal Transplantation: Does the Skin Component Provide a Pre-Rejection Marker for the Visceral Organ?
Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Can the skin component of a synchronously transplanted vascularised composite allograft (VCA) be used as a pre-rejection marker for the intestinal transplant (IT)?Methods: Recipients…2015 American Transplant Congress
Multivisceral Transplantation Without an Ostomy – Experience With 15 Patients
Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
Introduction: Despite improvement in short term outcomes, rejection remains a main cause of graft and patient loss in intestinal transplant. A temporary ostomy to assess…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Operative Assessment of Body Composition in Adult Multivisceral Transplant Candidates
Department of Surgery, Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Body Mass Index is commonly used, but is likely to be an inexact measurement of nutritional status. For this reason, we examined whether body composition…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Inhaled Tobramycin in Pediatric Transplant Patients Without Cystic Fibrosis
Purpose:To evaluate dosing strategies used and systemic levels achieved of inhaled tobramycin in pediatric patients without cystic fibrosis (CF)Methods:A retrospective single-center chart review was performed…2015 American Transplant Congress
Severe Refractory Skin Eruption Treated With Plasmapheresis in a Multivisceral Transplant Patient
3 year old African American male who underwent a multivisceral transplant due to gastroschisis. Crossmatch for T and B cells, PRA, DSA were negative. Induction…
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