Articles tagged "Outcome"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Contract a Virus to Save a Life: A Comparison of Short Term Outcomes between Adult Hepatitis C Negative Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving a Hepatitis C NAT Positive versus Hepatitis C Negative Deceased Donor Kidney
H. Schaefer¹, B. Concepcion¹, A. Sudhakar², S. Rega¹, I. Feurer¹, S. Shawar¹, B. Dubrey¹, D. Shaffer¹, R. Forbes¹
¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The United States opioid use epidemic over the past decade has coincided with an increase in hepatitis C positive (HCV+) kidney donors. Our aim…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of African American Race on Morbidity for Donors Undergoing Living Kidney Donation: A Single Center Study
D. R. White, F. Desrosiers, S. Sultan, R. Craig-Schapiro, J. del Pizzo, S. Kapur, A. Watkins
Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: To assess perioperative complication rates in African-Americans (AA) undergoing living donor nephrectomy in a large, single center program in the northeast.*Methods: We performed a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Patent Foramen Ovale on Post Liver Transplant Neurological Outcomes
S. Naffouj, F. Nimri, M. Mohammed, E. Abu-Asala, L. Al-khatib, M. Abu-Ghanimeh, D. Venkat
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: The presence of patent foramen ovale (PFO) can result in intra-cardiac shunting of atheromatous debris during liver transplantation (LT) given the acute hemodynamic changes…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of an Integrative Prognostic Score for US Patients Taken from the DART Study
J. Bromberg¹, R. Bloom², P. Sood³
¹University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ²Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: iBox is a validated cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) algorithm that provides a predictive analysis of the post-transplant patient, quantifying the risk of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Delayed Kidney Graft Function (DGF) after Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplantation (SLKT) on Patient Outcomes: Results from the US Multicenter SLKT Consortium
P. Sharma¹, Z. Sui¹, M. Zhang¹, J. Magee¹, P. Barman², K. Walters³, A. Schluger⁴, R. Wong⁵, G. Cullaro⁶, J. Sinha⁷, J. Jo⁷, Y. Patel⁸, S. Biggins⁹, J. Lai⁵, L. VanWangner⁷, E. Verna⁶
¹Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ²UCSD, San Diego, CA, ³UCLA, LA, CA, ⁴Westchester Medical Center, Westchester, NY, ⁵UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Columbia, New York, NY, ⁷Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ⁸Duke, Durham, NC, ⁹University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Delayed kidney graft function (DGF) after SLKT transplant may be associated with increased risk of kidney graft loss, morbidity and mortality. We examined the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Survival with Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus is Worse after Heart Transplantation
K. Y. Feng¹, E. Henricksen², Y. Moayedi³, R. Lee², J. Han¹, S. Purewal¹, A. Puing¹, M. Basina¹, J. J. Teuteberg¹, K. K. Khush¹
¹Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ²Pharmacy, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ³Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: An increasing number of patients undergoing heart transplantation (HTx) have diabetes mellitus (DM). However, there is limited data on clinical outcomes after HTx in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating Postoperative Opioid Requirements of Kidney Transplant Recipients
M. A. Muir¹, K. R. Szempruch², R. E. Dupuis¹, A. H. Toledo³, P. Serrano Rodriguez³
¹Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, UNC Eshleman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Pharmacy, UNC Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Surgery - Transplant, UNC Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: Multimodal analgesia with non-opioid analgesics in the setting of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway has proven beneficial in managing pain and decreasing adverse…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Liver Outcome Monitoring Registry Consortium: Data and Preliminary Outcome Results
J. Case¹, S. Kurian¹, B. Barrick¹, A. Robinson², M. Prentice², C. Marsh¹
¹Scripps Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation, La Jolla, CA, ²United Network for Organ Sharing Research Department, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The Liver Outcome Monitoring Registry (LOMR) is an online platform for collecting and monitoring liver outcome data of marginal and DCD organs to be…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association of Perfusion Characteristics and Post-Transplant Liver Function in Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation
Z. Zhang, Y. Tang, Q. Zhao, Z. Guo, X. He
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: It has been showed that normothermic machine perfusion (NMP), a novel preservation method, is able to assess and resuscitate liver grafts with risk factors.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HIV+ Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cases and a Clinical Paradigm
D. Segev¹, C. Wolfe², D. Brown³, D. Fine³, K. Neumann⁴, N. Martinez⁵, D. Ostrander³, F. Al Ammary³, A. Tobian³, A. W. Baker⁶, C. Durand³
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Unaffiliated, N/A, VA, ⁵Unaffiliated, N/A, GA, ⁶Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To report clinical characteristics and outcomes of two people living with HIV who underwent laparoscopic donor nephrectomy*Methods: To facilitate donor selection, we first conducted…