Articles tagged "Outcome"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Minimum Graft Size Avoiding Small-for-Size Associated Early Graft Failure in Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
S. Marubashi,¹ H. Nagano,³ H. Eguchi,² H. Wada,² K. Umeshita,² Y. Doki,² M. Mori,² N. Sato,¹ T. Kimura,¹ A. Kenjyo,¹ M. Gotoh.¹
¹Regenerative Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan; ²Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
Small-for-size syndrome (SFSS) is a serious complication in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors for…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Health Disparities in Pediatric Intestinal Transplantation: Before and After the Implementation of MELD/PELD.
V. Cohran,¹ S. Mohammed,¹ J. Prozialeck,¹ A. Gaddam,¹ J. Caicedo.²
¹Department of Pediatrics, The Ann & Robert H. Lurie's Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Racial disparities have been demonstrated in solid organ transplantation with regard to wait times and patient/graft survival but intestinal transplantation (IT) has not been as…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Importance of KDPI in Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplant.
E. Chan,¹ M. Hertl,¹ J. Perkins.²
¹General Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; ²Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Background: The use of the Donor Risk Index (DRI) in liver transplantation and the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) in kidney transplantation has been well…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Living and Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Recipients According to the MELD Score.
J. Lee, J. Lee, S. Song, J. Lee, S.-K. Kwon, D. Joo, M. Ju, G. Choi, J. Choi, S. Kim, M. Kim.
Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
BackgroundLiving donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has developed as an alternative to decease donor liver transplantation (DDLT) to overcome the critical shortage of deceased organ donations.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Priorities for Outcomes: A Nominal Group Technique Study.
C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Kanellis,^3,4 G. Wong,^1,2 J. Pinter,² S. Chadban,^5,6 J. Chapman,⁷ J. Craig,^1,2 J. Gill,⁸ A. Garg,⁹ J. Lewis,^1,2 A. Tong.^1,2
¹Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia; ³Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia; ⁵Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁶Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ⁷Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁸Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ⁹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Canada.
Background: Living kidney donors face risks associated with nephrectomy. While this is justified with informed consent, screening and follow up, the outcomes that are most…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Gastric Bypass Does Not Negatively Affect Kidney Transplant Outcomes.
N. Goyal, O. Sanchez, N. Issa, A. Matas, H. Ibrahim, A. Kukla.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Introduction: Bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for obesity, but has been associated with adverse renal outcomes. Limited data exist on the impact of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Ideal Outcome After Liver Transplantation: An Exploratory Study Using Machine Learning Analyses to Leverage Long-Term Registry Data from Studies in Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT).
E. Hsu,¹ M. Shaffer,^1,2 R. Anand,³ V. Ng,⁴ J. Bucuvalas.⁵
¹University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA; ²Children's Core for Biomedical Statistics, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA; ³The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, MD; ⁴The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁵Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
We analyzed the Studies in Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) registry dataset using heat map and random forests analyses (RFA) to determine if ideal outcome (IO)…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Share35 Liver Allocation Is Associated with Increased Early Graft Failure Rate.
T. Wong,¹ N. Koizumi,² J. Ortiz.³
¹Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ; ²George Mason University, Arlington, VA; ³University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
Background: The implementation of Share35 liver allocation policy in June 2013 facilitated the increase in number of transplanted livers with less organ discards. Early analysis…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Early Allograft Dysfunction (EAD) and Its Components on Patient Survival Following Liver Transplantation (LT): Long-Term Outcomes Up to 10 Years.
B. Ekser, R. Mangus, J. Fridell, C. Kubal, J. Davis, J. Salisbury, T. Salisbury, S. Nagaraju, P. Mihaylov, A. Tector.
Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: It has been shown that EAD in LT is a useful tool to predict intermediate (5-year) mortality. The purpose of this study is to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Racial Disparities in Perioperative Complications After Live Kidney Donation.
K. Lentine,¹ N. Lam,² D. Axelrod,³ M. Schnitzler,¹ A. Garg,⁴ J. Schold,⁵ D. Brennan,⁶ H. Randall,¹ D. Segev.⁷
¹Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis; ²Univ Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ³Dartmouth, Hanover; ⁴Western Univ, London; ⁵Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ⁶Washington Univ, St. Louis; ⁷Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Background: The frequency and severity of perioperative complications after contemporary live kidney donation are not well-described.Methods: We integrated national U.S. live donor registry data with…