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Articles tagged "Outcome"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical and Immunological Update 15 Years After the First VCA – Subsequent Kidney Transplantation After a Bilateral Hand Transplant

    A. Weissenbacher,1 G. Pierer,2 M. Gabl,3 M. Ninkovic,1 T. Hautz,1 J. Grahammer,1 B. Zelger,4 B. Zelger,5 G. Brandacher,6 S. Schneeberger.1

    1Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 2Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 3Department of Traumatology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 4Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 5Institute of Pathology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 6Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

    Background: We herein describe the long term outcome with emphasis on function, immunosuppression (IS), complication and side effects, histomorphology and graft vascular changes 15 years…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Decreasing Rates of Organ Donation in Trauma Patients: An Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database

    H. Aziz, T. Jie.

    Transplant Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Transplant, Surgery, Tucson, AZ.

    INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess organ donation rates among trauma patients over the years utilizing the national organ donation database (UNOS).METHODS:…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Does Smoking Lead to Increased Rates of Acute Cellular Rejection in Liver Transplant Recipients?

    B. Rao,1 D. Montezuma-Calvo,2 K. Tosch,2 S.-M. Jafri.2

    1Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; 2Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.

    Introduction: Prior studies of liver transplant recipients who smoke have shown associations between mortality and adverse outcomes. We investigated if smoking status at the time…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Immunologic Long-Term Outcome of Living Kidney Transplantation Depending On the Donor-Recipient Relationship

    D. Khadzhynov, F. Halleck, D. Schmidt, S. Kreimer, K. Budde, O. Staeck.

    Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

    Background. Only few data is available about long-term immunologic outcomes of living kidney transplantation (KTx) depending on the donor-recepient relationship.Patients and methods. This single center…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Native Americans and Post-Kidney Transplant Follow-Up: Lower in Quantity and Quality?

    S. Stith,1 F. Barrantes.2

    1Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; 2Renal Medicine Associates/Presbyterian Transplant Center, Albuquerque, NM.

    Background: Native Americans have been shown to face decreased access to waitlisting and transplantation.They appear to have similar short-term survival prospects post-transplant to those of…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Comparison of Liver Transplant Outcomes for Recipients With MELD <35 Vs. >35

    V. Kirchner, S. Chinnakotla, R. Kandaswamy, W. Payne, T. Pruett.

    Div. of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN.

    Introduction: Current allocation favors liver recipients with MELD > 35 . We compared liver tx outcomes among two groups based on MELD score at the…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Retransplantation in the Ipsilateral Iliac Fossa; a Surgical Challenge

    L. Ooms,1 J. Roodnat,2 F. Dor,1 K. Tran,1 D. Kimenai,1 J. IJzermans,1 T. Terkivatan.1

    1Transplant Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 2Nephrology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

    Introduction: The aim of this study is to review the surgical outcome of kidney retransplantation in the ipsilateral iliac fossa in comparison to first kidney…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Health Utilities in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients

    S. Mohammad, A. Bharij, K. Neighbors, E. Alonso.

    Pediatrics, Northwestern U, Chicago.

    Health Utilities (HU) are preference based measures of health states required for cost effectiveness studies. We measured HU and health related quality of life (HRQOL)…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    ABO-Incompatible Live Donor Kidney Transplants Inferior to ABO-Compatible Transplants, but Match Deceased Donor Results: Is Kidney Paired Donation the Answer?

    J. Verbesey, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert, M. Grafals, P. Weems, J. Moore, S. Ghasemian, C. Nilubol, B. Javaid.

    Georgetown University School of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Washington, DC.

    Objective: Compare kidney allograft survival in ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) and ABO-compatible (ABO-C) live donor kidney transplant recipients.Methods: We analyzed UNOS database for patients who underwent a…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Early Hospital Readmissions After Kidney Transplantation

    M. Lubetzky, M. Ajaimy, L. Kamal, G. DeBoccardo, E. Akalin, L. Kayler.

    Transplantation, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.

    Early rehospitalization after kidney transplantation is common and is considered a quality metric. Few studies have examined preventability or specific transplant/discharge factors associated with early…
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