Articles tagged "Outcome"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Frailty Predicts Infection After Liver Transplant in a Multi-Center Study of Older Adults
M. Malinis¹, M. Abidi², E. Benamu², N. Jakharia³, N. Law⁴, R. Sigler⁴, R. Nog⁵, S. Olivier⁵, S. Taimur⁶, N. Theodoropoulos⁷, J. Schaenman⁸
¹Yale SOM, New Haven, CT, ²Univ of CO, Aurora, CO, ³Stanford, Palo, Alto, CA, ⁴UCSD, San Diego, CA, ⁵Westchester Med Ctr, Westchester, NY, ⁶Mount Sinai SOM, New York, NY, ⁷Univ of MA, Worcester, MA, ⁸UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Frailty is a complex multi-system characterization of reduced physiologic reserve and functional decline in older adults. At the time of transplant, frailty has been…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Collaboration for Successful Transition to Adult Care in Liver Transplant: Early Outcomes of a Structured Program with Youth Engagement
B. Kosmach-Park¹, J. Kilpatrick², A. Algeo¹, K. Jones¹, L. Remaley¹, N. Elazzazy², N. Jonassaint³, G. Mazariegos¹
¹Transplant Surgery, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: To effectively transition youth to adult hepatology through a structured program and developed partnerships while promoting and maintaining optimal outcomes.*Methods: The pediatric and adult…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Pretransplant Recipient TNFR2⁺T Regulatory Cell Frequency Predicts Long-Term Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation
A. Kouyoumdjian, N. Saberi, S. Negi, J. Tchervenkov, S. Paraskevas
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Pre-transplant indices capable of predicting long-term renal allograft function could improve graft allocation strategies. We previously associated pretransplant frequency of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Impact of a Transplant Case Management Program on Clinical Outcomes: An Observational Cohort Study
A. Crossman
Healthcare Economics, Optum Health, Eden Prarie, MN
*Purpose: Case management is commonly used by payers to attempt to improve the care their members who have complex needs such as those who undergo…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient Reported Outcomes Following Renal Transplantation: The Future of Holistic Post-Transplant Care
H. V. Spiers¹, S. Frame², R. Heape³, K. Clark², A. Altinar², L. Ross², H. Wells², A. Simpson³, J. Chilcot³, L. Hughes³, D. M. Summers¹, J. Weinman³, M. Hotopf³, A. J. Cronin²
¹Roy Calne Transplant Unit, Department of Transplantation, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ²Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³King's College London, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Patients with renal disease prioritise symptoms and functionality over the biochemistry and clinical guidelines, which clinicians traditionally rely on. Whilst kidney transplantation is expected…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Galectin-3 Discriminates Patients with Advanced Cirrhosis and Predicts Post-Liver Transplant Infectious Complications
E. Cervantes-Alvarez¹, M. Vilatobá¹, J. Argemi², N. Limon-de la Rosa¹, O. Mendez-Guerrero¹, C. Huang³, D. Kershenobich¹, R. Bataller⁴, A. Torre⁵, N. Navarro-Alvarez¹
¹Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Liver Unit, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Hepatology Program, Center for Applied Medical Research, Pamplona, Spain, Pamplona, Spain, ³University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, ⁴University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico city, Mexico
*Purpose: An increased demand for liver transplantation (LT) prevails. Galectin-3 is a lectin implicated in inflammation, immunoregulation, and liver fibrosis. In this study we assessed…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Liver Transplantation (LT) Using Grafts from Donors with Active and Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Infection; Multi-Center Cohort Study
S. Suh¹, S. Gang², Y. Choi², S. Hong², N. Yi², K. Lee², K. Suh²
¹Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Liver grafts from donors with hepatitis B infection contributed to expand the donor pool under the Hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG) and antiviral agents (NA:…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Donor Liver Rejection Rates for Donor Quality Among US Transplant Centers
M. Anderson¹, T. Gilbert², M. Englesbe¹, S. Waits¹
¹Michigan Medicine Transplant Center, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Optimal utilization of all viable donor livers is a public health imperative. As no standardized criteria exist for assessment of donor quality, differential utilization…
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Survival of the Fittest: The Rise in Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Related Disease
K. Lau¹, A. M. Fagenson¹, L. Szeto², S. Gingipally², K. Forde²
¹Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ²Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The number of Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (OLT) performed for hepatitis C infection have decreased recently due to direct acting antiviral therapy. However, the number…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Individual and Community-Level Social Determinants of Health in Liver Transplant
M. Yilma¹, R. Cogan², N. Mehta³, J. Neuhaus², J. Voelkel⁴, C. Light⁵, I. Allen², R. Hirose²
¹General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco, CA, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: To investigate the individual and census-level social determinants of health on liver transplant listing.*Methods: Retrospective review of patients referred to the University of California…