Articles tagged "Outcome"

2018 American Transplant Congress
A Decade of Dual Kidney Transplantation Reveals Excellent Patient Outcomes from Otherwise Discarded Organs
I. Rajput, S. Farid, A. Hakeem, M. Jameel, N. Ahmad, O. Masood.
Department of Organ Transplantation, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom.
IntroductionBridging the disparity between the kidney waiting list and donor pool remains challenging. For highly sensitised patients and older recipients the wait is contributing to…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Renal Transplant Outcomes in Recipients Weighing 8-10 Kilograms
P. Singer, Y. Tseng, C. Sethna, L. Castellanos-Reyes, E. Molmenti, A. Fahmy, E. Grodstein, L. Teperman.
Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, Cohen Children's Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY.
Background: Renal transplant is the optimal treatment for children with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Most centers require a minimum weight of about 10 kg for…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Machine Learning to Assess Kidney Donor Risk
A. Shah, M. Li, Z. Chen.
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
Organ quality estimation is critical in allocation and organ acceptance in renal transplantation. Standard methods determine the likelihood of an outcome of interest utilizing Cox…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of a Tobacco Prohibition Policy Compared to a Restrictive Policy on Liver Transplant Candidate Outcomes
A. Likhitsup,¹ A. Hassan,¹ J. Mellinger,¹ F. Askari,¹ G. Winder,² P. Sharma,¹ N. Saeed,³ C. Sonnenday,⁴ R. Fontana.¹
¹Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ³Department of Internal Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn, MI; ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Introduction: Substance use disorders (SUD) are common in liver transplant (LT) candidates. Poorer postLT outcomes in tobacco users have led programs to prohibit tobacco use…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Infection Outcomes in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients Receiving Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole as Opposed to Atovaquone for Prophylaxis
A. Drelick,¹ W. Mowrey,² G. Minamoto.³
¹Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; ²Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; ³Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
Background: Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) is an important illness amongst solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) is the prophylaxis of choice based on efficacy…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Use of Perfusion Machine after Long Cold Ischemia Time: 3 Years Results
A. Matos,¹ L. Requião-Moura,¹ E. Tonato,¹ M. Souza-Durão,^1,2 M. Borrelli,¹ M. Nogueira,¹ P. Rubio,¹ A. Pacheco-Silva.^1,2
¹Transplant, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil; ²Nephrology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
The rate of delayed graft function (DGF) in Brazil is very high, reaching 80%. This is due to the long cold ischemia time (TIF) and…
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
Identification of Exosomal Isletokines Released by Pancreatic Islets in Response to Inflammatory Stress
P. Saravanan,¹ G. Yoshimatsu,¹ R. Bhattacharjee,¹ C. Chang,¹ C. Darden,¹ B. Naziruddin,² M. Lawrence.¹
¹Islet Cell Lab, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, Dallas, TX; ²Transplantation, Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Dallas, TX.
Purpose: To identify isletokines released by exosomes from human islets that have been exposed to hypoxic or inflammatory conditions and define stress signaling pathways that…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Factors Associated with the Development of Chronic Kidney Disease after Liver Transplantation
M. Kalisvaart, A. Schlegel, P. Trivedi, K. Roberts, D. Mirza, T. Perera, J. Isaac, J. Ferguson, P. Muiesan.
Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
BackgroundRenal dysfunction is a common complication after liver transplantation. The increased use of DCD livers has been associated with postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI). However,…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Assessment Pilot Study in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
B. Abdalla, B. Hale-Durbin, J. Schaenman, C. Lee, G. Danovitch.
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Older patients are more often being considered for kidney transplantation, however many candidates are on the waitlist for several years. We sought to evaluate the…