Articles tagged "Outcome"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Engaging Friends and Family in the Care of the Kidney Transplant Candidate: Identifying Needs and Barriers
A. Hart¹, M. Bruin², M. Partin³, A. Matas⁴, A. Israni¹
¹Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Medicine, Minneapolis VA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Research suggests that including social support networks in the kidney transplant education process improves evaluation completions and increases living donor rates, but the optimal…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Predictors for Pediatric Liver Allograft Utilization and Outcome of the Use of Paediatric Donor Livers in Adult Recipients
S. Huang, C. Sun, X. He, Z. Guo, G. Chen
Organ Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of SYSU, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: We determined to find out the utilization rate of pediatric livers, identify risk factors for graft discard and analyse the outcomes of adult liver…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Resource Utilization in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Liver Transplantation before and after the Six Month Wait Time
J. Sokolich¹, W. McClellan², J. Buggs¹, E. Rogers¹, K. Barber¹, K. Cocuy¹, A. Kumar²
¹Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine any difference in resource utilization since the implementation of the mandatory six month wait-time policy for…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Metabolic Outcomes in Islet Autotransplantation before Transplantation
M. A. Kanak, P. Saravanan, J. Kalivarathan, Y. Shindo, M. F. Levy
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto-transplantation (TPIAT) has been actively performed on patients with severe, debilitating pain of chronic pancreatitis. The outcome of islet transplantation…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Pregnancy Experiences of Uterus Transplant Recipients
A. E. Wall, L. Johannesson, G. Testa, A. Warren
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the pregnancy experiences of uterus transplant recipients through semi-structured interviews so as to develop a better…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Non-A1 and Non A1 B to B Deceased Donor Renal Transplantation Are Comparable to B Donor Renal Transplants
A. Brar, L. Kwon, A. Gruessner, F. Tedla, R. Gruessner, N. Sumrani, D. John, J. Renz, M. O. Salifu
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Blood type B patients wait longer to get deceased donor (DD) renal transplants compared to other blood types. On December 2014, the US national…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Donor Outcomes ≥ 50 Years Post Donation
D. Keys, S. Jackson, A. Matas
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Data on true long-term follow-up (LTFU) of living kidney donors (LD) is sparse. Given this, the acceptance of young donors can be a challenging…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplants Outcomes from Deceased Donors with Acute Kidney Injury
C. Jung¹, P. Sood², R. Mehta², D. Jorgensen², M. Molinari², S. Hariharan², A. Ganoza², D. Van Der Windt², M. Wijkstrom², C. Puttarajappa², A. Tevar³
¹Korea Univ. Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Univ. Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Department of Surgery, Univ. Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Due to the shortage of organs for transplantation, kidney transplants (KT) from marginal donors including donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) are expanding. Although…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Recipient Age in Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation (CLKT): Caution is Needed for Elderly Patients≥70 Years
B. Ekser¹, W. C. Goggins¹, R. S. Mangus¹, P. Mihaylov¹, J. A. Fridell¹, M. A. Lacerda², M. S. Ghabril², J. A. Powelson¹, C. A. Kubal¹
¹Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Gastroenterology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Recent SRTR analysis showed that elderly recipients (≥70 years) accounts for 2.6% of all liver transplant alone (LTA) and do as well as younger…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Single Center Deceased Donor Renal Transplant (DDRTx) Outcomes in Sensitized Patients after Implementation of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS)
S. S. Patel, K. L. King, J. Kamal, E. Vasilescu, A. Husain, S. Mohan, L. E. Ratner, R. Crew
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Introduction of KAS in 2014 prioritized access to DDRTx for highly-sensitized candidates although it was unclear whether the outcomes would be acceptable in this…