Articles tagged "Outcome"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Bypassing the Nearest Transplant Center for Care is Associated with Gains in Time to Living Donor but Not Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation or Improved Graft Outcomes
A. M. Whelan¹, C. McCulloch², E. Ku¹
¹Division of Nephrology, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, ²Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Some patients may gain an advantage if they choose to bypass their local transplant center and receive care at a center further away but…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Association between Timed-Up-and-Go Test and Montreal Cognitive Assessment on Outcomes of Renal Transplant Candidates
K. Bozhilov, L. Wong
Transplant Surgery, Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
*Purpose: Patients with frailty who undergo renal transplantation (RT) have a higher incidence of delayed graft function and rehospitalization, however little is known about the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Centennial Allograft – Can an Organ Function for Over 100 Years in 2 Different Individuals?
A. Gruessner, J. Renz, S. Saggi, R. Gruessner
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: We investigated the occurrence of deceased-donor liver (DDOLT), deceased-donor renal (DDRT), and living-donor renal allografts (LDRT) that have achieved or come close to 100…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of UNOS Acceptance Sequence Number on Liver Graft Survival
C. Thornley, O. Kezirian, S. Mehta, J. Cashman, J. Brink, T. Chaly Jr, W. Van der Werf
University of Arizona/Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Many initially declined liver grafts will go on to be successfully transplanted into other candidates. Limited information exists regarding outcomes of liver grafts that…
2020 American Transplant Congress
New-Onset Diabetes after Adult Liver Transplantation in the Korean Organ Transplantation Registry Study
J. Kim¹, S. Hwang², K. Lee³, J. Lee⁴, J. Ryu⁵, B. Kim⁶, D. Choi⁷, Y. You⁸, D. Kim⁹, Y. Nah¹⁰, K. Kang¹¹, M. Kim⁴
¹Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Department of Surgery, Pusan National University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea, Republic of, ⁶Department of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea, Republic of, ⁷Department of Surgery, Catholic University of Daegu College of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ⁸Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁹Division of HBP Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ¹⁰Department of Surgery, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of, ¹¹Department of Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: New-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is a serious complication following liver transplantation (LT). The present study aimed to investigate the incidence of and risk…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Child-Turcotte-Pugh Class at Transplantation Predicts Mortality after Heart Transplantation Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement
E. Leven¹, A. T. Kurdi², S. Pinney¹, T. Schiano¹, J. Crismale¹
¹Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, ²Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: The primary aim of this study is to assess whether Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) class is associated with mortality in end-stage heart disease patients undergoing left…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparable Outcomes for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation with HCV NAT-Positive Donors
M. L. Samoylova¹, B. I. Shaw¹, S. J. Kesseli¹, L. McElroy¹, Y. Patel², S. Sanoff², A. S. Barbas¹
¹Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To evaluate the impact of hepatitis C virus (HCV) Nucleic Acid Amplification-positive (NAT+) donors on outcomes following simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplantation.*Methods: We used the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Social Support in the Peri-Liver Transplant Period Affects Post-Transplant Survival, Rejection Rate and Length of Stay
T. Ashraf¹, V. Mendiratta², S. Gill¹, A. Abdelwahab³, D. Moonka², S. Jafri²
¹Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ³Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Although social support is a key component of the pre-transplant evaluation, it’s effect on post-transplant outcomes remains understudied. The purpose of this study was…
2020 American Transplant Congress
TPIAT Outcomes in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis
M. A. Kanak, P. Saravanan, J. Kalivarathan, G. Hobbs, M. F. Levy
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Total pancreatectomy with islet auto-transplantation (TPIAT) is becoming the standard of care for patients with severe chronic pancreatitis (CP). However, it is necessary to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pumping in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation—Does it Matter?
M. MacConmara, J. Gattineni, D. Desai, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Pulsatile perfusion of deceased donor kidneys is commonly practiced in adult kidney transplantation. We examined the practice of pulsatile perfusion in pediatric patients undergoing…