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Articles tagged "Obesity"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Macrosteatosis in the US Pediatric Deceased Liver Donor Population, 2005-2018

    J. Purvis, D. Dhall, C. McLeod, S. Sheikh, R. Cannon, K. Frey, J. Locke, B. Orandi

    University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: The pediatric obesity epidemic is associated with early signs of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) such as increased hepatic macrosteatosis and liver enzymes. In…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Does the NSQIP-Transplant Experience Demonstrate That Obese Kidney Transplant Recipients are Still at Increased Risk for Surgical Site Infections?

    H. C. Yaffe1, A. K. Belli1, J. R. Parekh2, D. L. Sudan3, N. Elias4, K. D. Conzen5, D. P. Foley6, R. Hirose7, S. M. Greenstein1

    1Surgery, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 2Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 3Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 4Surgery, Transplant Surgery Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 5Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, 6Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 7Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program for Transplant (NSQIP-T) was designed to track surgical outcomes in adult liver and kidney transplants (KTX). The Pilot…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Association of Obesity and Early Post Kidney Transplantation Complications

    V. Sandra, N. Sanichar, D. Tsapepas, K. L. King, J. Van Bever, K. Toma, A. Hussain, S. Mohan

    Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Although the prevalence of obesity among kidney transplant recipients is rising, there continues to be reluctance to waitlist obese candidates. We sought to determine…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Taurodeoxycholic Acid and L-valine Ameliorate Macrophage Driven Alloimmunity in Obese Transplant Recipients

    M. Quante1, J. Iske1, D. Perkins2, M. Alegre3, H. Zhou1, A. Elkhal1, S. G. Tullius1

    1Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 3Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Obesity initiates a chronic inflammatory network linked to more frequent perioperative complications and increased acute rejection rates after organ transplantation. Clinically, morbidly obese transplant…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Body Mass Index >35 Does Not Impact Kidney Transplant Outcomes or Health Related Quality of Life Despite BMI Class or Recipient Race

    D. A. Walczak1, E. Collins2, E. Benedetti1

    1Organ Transplant, University of Il Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, 2College of Nursing, Dept of Bio-behavioral Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Kidney transplant [KTx] in recipients with BMI > 35 remains controversial and has not often been studied in recipients with BMI >40. There is…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Ganciclovir Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Obese Adults Patients – Opportunity for Clinical Utility

    Y. Tran1, S. Bernard1, R. W. Stevens1, L. Myhre1, R. Razonable2

    1Department of Pharmacy, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: Ganciclovir (GCV) is the drug of choice for the treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection; optimal dosing of GCV in the obese patient population is…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation in Patients with Type-I and Type-II Diabetes Mellitus

    H. Shokouh-Amiri1, M. S. Naseer1, A. Palermini1, D. Aultman1, R. McMillan1, S. Tandukar2, N. Singh2, G. Zibari1

    1Advanced Surgery, John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center - Willis Knighton Health System, Shreveport, LA, 2Transplant Nephrology, John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center - Willis Knighton Health System, Shreveport, LA

    *Purpose: UNOS approved simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation (SKPT) for type-II diabetes mellitus (DM) in Oct 2014. There is limited data comparing outcomes of SKPT in type-I…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Attitudes of Obese Kidney Transplant Candidates Towards Bariatric Surgery

    C. LaVerne, V. Thompson, G. Aguiluz, P. DiCocco, J. Almario Alvarez, M. Spaggiari, I. Tang, I. Tzvetanov, E. Benedetti

    Surgery, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Obesity is an epidemic in the US and increasingly prevalent in kidney transplant candidates. Surgical weight-loss interventions are effective and reduce transplant-related complications. They…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Predictors of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in an Urban, Obese Adult Renal Transplant Population

    A. Lichvar, Z. Ress, M. Tabriz, H. Jenkins, T. Walsh, I. Tzvetanov, E. Benedetti, M. Campara

    University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is a common surgical complication. Renal transplant (RT) recipients possess risk factors that may lead to a higher incidence of…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Empiric Extended-Release Tacrolimus Dosing in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients

    C. Patel, S. Lee, D. M. Salerno, N. W. Lange, J. Hedvat

    Pharmacy, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Envarsus XR® (extended-release [XR] tacrolimus) is the standard of care tacrolimus formulation at our center for de novo maintenance immunosuppression in adult kidney transplant…
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