Articles tagged "Obesity"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Regional Variation in the Outcomes of MELD-Na Based Liver Allocation
L. Chau,¹ D. Moonka,² K. Collins,¹ M. Rizzari,¹ A. Yoshida,¹ M. Abouljoud,¹ S. Nagai.¹
¹Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; ²Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Introduction: While there is known geographic discrepancy in waitlist and transplant outcomes in the MELD era, there is a paucity in understanding of these variations…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Impact of Antecedent Bariatric Surgery on Liver Transplant Outcomes: A Retrospective Matched Case-Control Study
O. Serrano,¹ K. Peterson,¹ D. Vock,² D. Berglund,¹ R. Kandaswamy,¹ J. Lake,³ T. Pruett,¹ S. Chinnakotla.¹
¹Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ²Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ³Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
OBJECTIVE: Bariatric surgery (BS) is associated with significant malabsorption and nutritional deficiencies, which can have profound consequences on the liver transplant (LT) patient. The magnitude…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Altruistic Living Kidney Donor Phenotype – From Inquiry to Donation
V. Kumar, P. MacLennan, M. Bonventre, M. Hanaway, R. Reed, J. Locke.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.
BackgroundWe distinguish an altruistic donor from the traditional living donor when a living person's offer to donate an organ is to “anyone” and not attached…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Objective Measures of Nutrition in Pre-Pancreas Transplant Patients with Type I Diabetes
S. Nagaraju, R. Mangus, T. Salisbury, W. Bush, J. Davis, J. Powelson, J. Fridell.
Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Diabetes mellitus is associated with a chronic loss of skeletal muscle and bone mass, accompanied by an increase in adipose tissue - sarcopenic obesity. Sarcopenia…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Donor and Recipient Obesity in Kidney Transplantation
J. Buggs,¹ R. Mehta,² M. Adesunkanmi,² J. Boone,² E. Rogers,³ A. Kumar,⁴ V. Bowers.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Medical Group, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; ²Pre-Med Undergraduate, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; ³Transplant Research, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; ⁴Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Introduction: Obesity (BMI >30) is a world health epidemic projected to increase the incidence of diabetes, the leading cause of kidney failure. The shortage of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Hidden Risk of Liver Transplantation for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: A Propensity Score Matched Study
S. Nagai,¹ R. Schilke,¹ M. Safwan,¹ M. Rizzari,¹ K. Collins,¹ A. Yoshida,¹ M. Abouljoud,¹ D. Moonka.²
¹Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; ²Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Aim: There is a recent shift in the number of liver transplants (LT) performed in patients with hepatitis C (HCV) to those with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Obese Patients Show Resistance to Narcotics Reduction after TPIAT for Chronic Pancreatitis
G. Yoshimatsu,¹ B. Naziruddin,³ K. Kumano,² H. Fernandez,³ E. Beecherl,³ N. Onaca.³
¹Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan; ²Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Dallas; ³Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Dallas.
Total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TPIAT) is an effective treatment option for chronic pancreatitis patients with refractory pain. Patients with high BMI (>30) are known…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Anterior Rectus Sheath Approach Resulted in No Difference in Wound Complication Rates in Obese versus Non-Obese Renal Transplant Recipients
S. King,² S. Hill,² L. Lipscomb,² A. Jones,² R. Jeffries,² J. Africa.¹
¹Glickman Institute, Cleveland Clinic - Charleston Area Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; ²Urology and Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV.
The anterior rectus sheath (ARS) approach is a modification of the conventional Kuss procedure for kidney transplant (KT). We have previously described the ARS approach…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of BMI, Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio for Identification of Cardiovascular Risk in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
K. Sgambat, S. Clauss, A. Moudgil.
Children's National, Washington DC.
Background: Children with kidney disease have altered body composition and short stature that may not be accurately assessed by standard methods. The measure of obesity…
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Metabolic Regulation of Neuropeptides Induces Weight Loss and is Linked to Prolongation of Allograft Survival
M. Quante,^1,2 T. Heinbokel,¹ K. Minami,¹ Y. Nian,¹ A. Elkhal,¹ S. Tullius.¹
¹Transplant Surgery Research Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Tuebingen Unversity Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany.
Obesity has become a common comorbidity among transplant recipients that is linked to inferior transplant outcome through far-reaching effects on metabolism, inflammation and immunity. Increasingly,…