2019 American Transplant Congress
Does Ethnicity Impact Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipient Outcomes?
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Elderly patients represent a growing proportion of the kidney transplant population. In order to address the needs of this special group, risk factors for…2019 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing Patient Blood Management in Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: To identify a post-operative hematocrit (Hct) target for patients recovering from simultaneous kidney and pancreas (SPK) transplant and pancreas transplant alone (PTA) that is…2019 American Transplant Congress
Apolipoprotein L1 Genotyping in Potential African American Living Kidney Donors
*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
*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
*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
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
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
*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…2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Cognitive Improvement One Month after Liver Transplant Measured by the NIH Toolbox
*Purpose: Cognitive impairment (CI) is highly prevalent in liver cirrhosis. Improvement after liver transplant (LT) varies among patients, diminishing the benefits of LT for some.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Time Zero Biopsy Findings Predict Graft Loss in the Recipient
*Purpose: Recipient outcomes with living donor kidney grafts are superior to those achieved from deceased donors. However, there may still be variability in the quality…
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