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Articles tagged "Outcome"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Increased Utilization of High Risk Deceased Donors with Share 35 Does Not Affect Outcomes in Liver Transplantation.

    M. Boktour, A. Saharia, D. Victor, S. Gordon-Burroughs, C. Mobley, R. McFadden, V. Ankoma-Sey, J. Galati, A. Gaber, H. Monsour, R. Ghobrial.

    Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.

    Background: Demand for livers from deceased donors exceeds supply after Share 35 in June 2013. This leads liver transplant centers to consider high risk deceased…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Baseline Proteinuria on Long- and Short-Term Outcomes in Live Kidney Donors – 10 Year U.K Cohort Study.

    N. Krishnan,1 L. Bradbury,2 N. Raymond.1

    1Renal & Transplantation, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom; 2Statistics, National Health Service, Organ Donation & Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom.

    Living kidney donation has significantly improved recipient and graft survival world wide. It is importanat to have a better understanding of the outcomes and risks…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Anterior Rectus Sheath Approach for Renal Transplant: An Open Minimal Incision with Decreased Wound Complications.

    S. Phillips,1 S. Hill,1 L. Lipscomb,1 B. Sankari,2 S.-C. Chueh,2 J. Africa.2

    1Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV; 2Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    Preventing wound complications is an important goal in all surgery. The reduction of modifiable risk factors, like surgical approach, is an important step towards protecting…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Transplantation for Propionic Acidemia: A Review of the United States Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients (SRTR) and Non-US Case Series.

    N. Celik, K. Soltys, G. Bond, Q. Sun, G. Vockley, R. Sindhi, G. Mazariegos.

    Surgery, Childrens Hospital of Pgh, Pittsburgh.

    Background: A fifth of all pediatric liver transplants in the US are performed for metabolic disease. Propionic acidemia, an autosomal recessive branched chain organic acidemia…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Early Acute Rejection (AR) on Pancreas Transplant (PT) Outcomes.

    V. Kirchner, T. Dunn, A. Kukla, R. Kandaswamy, E. Finger.

    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

    Background: The role of early AR in long-term PT outcomes remains unclear. Despite reported high rate of AR (up to 40% in PTA), graft survival…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Early Hospital Readmission Following Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation.

    E. King, L. Kucirka, M. McAdams-DeMarco, M. Bowring, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

    BACKGROUND: Our group recently demonstrated that 54% of simultaneous pancreas kidney (SPK) recipients experience early hospital readmission (EHR). It is unknown whether EHR following SPK…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Crisis on the Waiting List for Children Listed in Low Volume Solid Organ Transplant Centers.

    A. Rana, E. Brewer, W. Winkelmayer, C. O'mahony, J. Goss.

    Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    Purpose: In a recent analysis, we demonstrated that children listed in low volume liver transplant centers had poor waitlist survival and a depressed transplant rate…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Predonation Prescription Narcotic Use: A Novel Risk Factor for Readmission After Living Donor Nephrectomy.

    K. Lentine,1,7 D. Segev,2,1 D. Axelrod,3 N. Lam,4 A. Garg,5 G. Hess,6 B. Kasiske,1 D. Brennan,8 H. Randall,7 M. Schnitzler.7,1

    1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; 2Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; 3Dartmouth, Hanover; 4Univ Alberta, Alberta, Canada; 5Western Univ, London, Canada; 6Symphony Health, Pittsburgh; 7Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis.

    Implications of narcotic use in living kidney donor (LKD) candidates for key outcomes, including readmission rates after nephrectomy, are unknown.We integrated 1) national Scientific Registry…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Is Delayed Graft Function in Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients Associated with an Increased Risk of Pancreas Graft Failure?

    S. Singh,1,2 S. Kim.1,2,3,4

    1Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 3Division of Nephrology and the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada; 4Division of Nephrology and the Kidney Transplant Program, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

    Background: Delayed graft function (DGF) in kidney transplant recipients is associated with adverse short and long-­term outcomes. However, the impact of DGF of the kidney…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    A Multi-Center Study of Factors That Increase Cognitive Load in Living Donor Liver Transplants.

    A. Lee,1 R. Khorzad,1 E. Pomfret,2 J. Guarrera,3 R. Fisher,4 M. Simpson,2 A. Skaro,1 A. Daud,1 N. Salehitezangi,1 D. Woods,1 D. Ladner.1

    1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA; 3Columbia University, New York, NY; 4Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy, Richmond, VA.

    Background: Studies have shown that distractions in the operating room (such as phones/pagers, irrelevant conversations, ins and outs) can negatively affect concentration and performance, and…
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