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Articles tagged "Obesity"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Metabolic Syndrome Predicts Worse Long-Term Renal Outcomes in Living Kidney Donors (LKDs)

    M. Merzkani1, A. Denic1, M. D'Costa1, L. Ricaurte1, R. Narasimhan1, X. Benavides1, A. Mullan1, J. Larson1, W. Kremers1, W. Park1, M. P. Alexander1, S. Textor1, S. Taler1, H. Chakkera2, M. Stegall1, N. Issa1, A. Rule1

    1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ

    *Purpose: Prior studies linked metabolic syndrome with worse kidney outcomes in a variety of populations. In this study, we assessed the long-term risk of reduced…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Obesity on Short and Long Term Outcomes on Simultaneous Kidney- Pancreas Transplantation

    S. Karhadkar, K. Lau, P. Singh, A. Di Carlo

    Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Pancreas transplantation has been very effective in normalizing glucose control in type 1 diabetes and more recently in type 2 diabetes with equivalent patient…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Bariatric Surgery to Improve Candidacy for Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    J. Purvis1, R. Stahl1, J. Grams1, M. Gray1, D. Eckhoff1, R. Cannon1, C. Lewis1, N. Terrault2, J. Locke1, B. Orandi1

    1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: As non-alcoholic steatohepatitis grows as an indication for liver transplant, the challenge managing obese pre-liver transplant patients will become more pronounced, especially because most…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Living Kidney Donors Who Lose Weight in Order to Be Able to Donate, Gain More Weight after Donation

    S. R. Punjala, L. Silas, R. Gokmen, N. Karydis

    Department of Nephrology, Renal Transplant and Urology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation is widely accepted to be the treatment of choice for end-stage kidney disease, and great efforts are undertaken to expand…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplantation after Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Morbidly Obese Candidate: Results of a Five-Year Experience

    Y. Kim, A. J. Bailey, M. C. Morris, J. Hlavaty, M. C. Cuffy, E. S. Woodle, S. A. Shah, T. S. Diwan

    Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

    *Purpose: Morbid obesity serves as a barrier to kidney transplantation (KT) due to potential suboptimal post-transplant outcomes. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has previously been shown…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    A Randomized, Controlled, Trial of Interventions to Promote Walking after Abdominal Organ Transplantation: The LIFT Study

    M. Serper1, I. Barankay2, S. Chadha1, J. Shults3, P. Reese1

    1University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Substantial weight gain and sedentary behavior are common after transplantation. Behavioral economic strategies with financial incentives and reminders may promote healthy behaviors in the…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Pre-Operative C-Peptide Predicts Weight Gain after Pancreas Transplantation

    J. Torabi, J. P. Rocca, E. Kestenbaum, M. Ajaimy, M. Kinkhabwala, J. A. Graham

    Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY

    *Purpose: Transplant recipients are susceptible to metabolic syndrome as typified by hyperglycemia, central obesity and increased insulin resistance after transplant, which may precede the onset…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Frailty and BMI in Liver Transplant Candidates: 9-Center Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study

    C. Haugen1, M. McAdams-DeMarco1, D. Segev1, E. Verna2, R. Rahimi3, M. Kappus4, M. Volk5, M. Dunn6, A. Duarte Rojo6, D. Granger7, J. O'Leary8, D. Ladner7, J. Lai9

    1JHU, Baltimore, MD, 2Columbia, NYC, NY, 3Baylor, Dallas, TX, 4Duke, Durham, NC, 5Loma Linda, Loma Linda, CA, 6Pitt, Pittsburgh, PA, 7Northwestern, Chicago, IL, 8DVA, Dallas, TX, 9UCSF, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Obesity and frailty are associated with an increased risk of waitlist mortality (WLM) in liver transplant (LT) candidates. However, body mass index (BMI) may…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Time within Therapeutic Range: A Comparison of Three Tacrolimus Formulations within Ninety Days of Renal Transplant

    S. Patel, K. Khalil, A. Lichvar, E. Benedetti, P. West-Thielke

    University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Optimizing tacrolimus (TAC) time within therapeutic range (TTR) has been shown to improve outcomes post-transplant. To date, there are no studies assessing differences in…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Feasibility of a Rapid Magnetic Resonance Protocol to Assess Body Composition Profiles in Adult Liver Transplant Candidates

    S. Pine1, L. Adamski1, D. Gregory1, C. Padilla1, J. Gottstein2, A. Lemmer1, M. Forsgren3, M. Rinella1, L. B. VanWagner4

    1Medicine-GI & Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 3Center for Medical Image Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 4Medicine-GI & Hepatology and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Body mass index (BMI) is a poor marker of obesity and outcomes in liver transplant (LT) candidates. Data suggest that body composition profiling (BCP),…
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