Articles tagged "Outcome"

2020 American Transplant Congress
No Correlation Between Program-Specific Report Performance of Different Organs at the Same Center
A. Massie¹, N. Salkowski², D. Zaun², J. Snyder², D. Segev¹
¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²SRTR, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Transplant programs which have too many early graft failures, as determined by the SRTR Program-Specific Reports (PSRs) risk decreased patient volume, regulatory sanction, and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Providers’ Accuracy in Predicting Early Readmission after Kidney and Liver Transplantation
K. Maroney, Z. Wang, R. Lynch, A. Adams, R. Patzer, J. Hogan
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Predictive models capable of identifying patients at risk for readmission are in development. However, it is unknown how accurate clinicians are at predicting early…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ureteral Complications Post Kidney Transplantation – Incidence and Preferred Treatment Modality
R. Patten¹, H. Mustafa², S. Desai³, J. Buggs⁴, E. Rogers⁴, A. Kumar¹, V. Bowers⁴
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the incidence of ureteral complications at a single transplant center. A secondary objective was to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis C and Racial Disparity in Liver Transplant Waitlist Additions: Separate Not Equal
C. Wang¹, J. Buggs¹, E. Rogers¹, A. Kumar², N. Kemmer³
¹Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: In 2014, direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) became available as a treatment option for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) with successful results. Since the implementation of DAAs,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Apolipoprotein L1 Genotyping in Potential African American Living Kidney Donors
P. Gudsoorkar, M. Anand, T. Kaur, S. Shah, S. Bumb, A. Govil, B. G. Abu Jawdeh
U.Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: African Americans(AA) account for 13% of the US population, yet compose more than one third of dialysis patients. Inheriting two Apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Expanding the Donor Pool with Extended Criteria DCD Livers
P. Mihaylov¹, B. Ekser², R. Mangus², J. Fridell², D. Soma², C. Kubal²
¹Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Pavia Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ²Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Utilization of extended criteria donation after circulatory death (ECD DCD) livers has remained cautious due to potentially worse outcomes because of higher rates of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Pure Laparoscopic Donor Hepatectomy Based On Korean Multicenter Experience
K. Suh¹, S. Hong¹, G. Choi², K. Lee¹, C. D. Kwon², K. Kim³, S. Lee⁴, Y. Han⁵, J. Cho⁶, H. Han⁷
¹Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Surgery, , Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Surgery, Daegu Catholic University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ⁶Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea, Republic of, ⁷Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital,, Seongnam, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Due to increased experience and knowledge in laparoscopic surgery in the era of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic donor hepatectomy is also being increasingly performed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes after Face Transplantation
B. Kollar, S. Tasigiorgos, M. Turk, E. Bueno, B. Perry, M. Alhefzi, H. Kiwanuka, M. Nizzi, N. Krezdorn, T. Win, M. I. Dorante, V. Haug, D. J. Annino, F. M. Marty, A. Chandraker, S. G. Tullius, L. V. Riella, B. Pomahac
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Face transplantation (FT) holds promise of restoring form and function to patients with severe facial disfigurement not amenable to traditional reconstructive procedures. However, quantitative…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Does Secondary Simultaneous Liver Kidney versus Liver Alone Make a Difference in Terms of Patient and Graft Survival
C. Blanton, J. Reyes, M. Eerhart, P. Chlebeck, L. Fernandez
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Survival benefits have been shown with primary simultaneous liver kidney (SLK) transplantation as well as kidney after primary liver transplant when patients develop kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial Differences in Acute Kidney Injury Occurrence among Deceased Kidney Donors
M. Doshi¹, I. Hall², S. Mohan³, C. Liu⁴, H. Philbrook⁴, P. Reese⁵, S. Mansour⁶, F. Weng⁷, E. Akalin⁸, J. Bromberg⁹, M. Harhay¹⁰, T. Muthukumar¹¹, B. Schroeppel¹², P. Singh¹³, C. Parikh⁴
¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³Columbia, New York, NY, ⁴Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁷St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ, ⁸Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁹University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁰Drexel, Philadelphia, PA, ¹¹Cornell, New York, NY, ¹²University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, ¹³Jefferson, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Kidneys from African American (AA) deceased donors have lower graft survival than kidneys from white donors, regardless of recipient race. We hypothesized that kidneys…