Articles tagged "Outcome"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Excellent Outcomes in Liver Transplantation under Charity Care: An Opportunity to Mitigate Socio-Economic Disparities in Access to Transplantation
F. Paterno¹, J. Rosado¹, R. Olivo², S. Gavzy¹, L. Brown¹, D. Wilson¹, B. Koneru¹, N. Pyrsopoulos², J. V. Guarrera¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, ²Department of Medicine, Division of Hepatology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
*Purpose: Lack of health insurance is a major barrier in the access to health care even in the case of life-threatening conditions like end-stage liver…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Management of Post Operative Pain after Pancreas Transplant – Liposomal Bupivicaine Injection or Continuous Catheter Infiltration Reduces Daily Opioid Usage
S. Nagaraju, Y. Yeap, R. Mangus, J. Fridell, J. Wolfe, J. Powelson
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Post-operative pain management is crucial in determining early morbidity after major abdominal surgery. Opioid use may contribute to worsened gastroparesis and intestinal dysmotility in…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Early Outcomes Comparing Two Steroid-Avoidance Protocols in Pediatric Renal Transplantation
D. Puliyanda¹, H. Pizzo¹, N. Rodig², M. Somers²
¹Cedars-Sinai Med Ctr, Los Angeles, CA, ²Pediatric Nephrology, Boston Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Steroid-avoidance in pediatric kidney transplants (txs) was found effective and safe with daclizumab induction. Upon daclizumab’s discontinuation, lymphocyte-depleting agents became used in this setting,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Cardiovascular Mortality in Transplant Patients; A Population-Based Cohort Study 1988-2013 in Australia and New Zealand
M. Wyld¹, N. De La Mata², P. Masson³, E. O'Lone², A. Webster²
¹Renal Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Australia, ²School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ³Renal Department, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Transplant recipients experience excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We compared cardiovascular death rates in kidney transplant recipients to the general population and identified risk…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Racial Variation in ESRD Diagnosis Patterns among Prior Living Kidney Donors on the OPTN Kidney Waiting List
J. Wainright¹, A. Robinson¹, A. Wilk¹, D. Klassen², W. Cherikh¹, C. Custer¹, R. Brown³, D. Stewart¹
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Office of the Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Organ Center, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We studied End Stage Renal Disease diagnosis patterns among prior living kidney donors (PLDs) who received candidate PLD priority on the OPTN kidney waiting…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Improving the Organ Donation Process: Updated
J. Yeh, M. P. Jarrett, L. Teperman
Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY
*Purpose: Due to the complexity of care that each ICU patient requires, the bedside nurse may miss the clinical trigger that would indicate an appropriate…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Early Conversion to Sirolimus-Based Immunosuppression in Children with Living Donor Kidney Transplants
B. Stotter¹, S. Lui¹, E. Weller², L. Ganapathi¹, M. Ferguson¹, A. Traum¹, M. Somers¹, N. Rodig¹
¹Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Biostatistics and Research Design Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Following kidney transplantation (KTx), calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based maintenance immunosuppression (IS) can be associated with nephrotoxicity and other complications including viral infections and malignancy. Mammalian…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Association between Recipient Sex and Risk of Heart Graft Failure
A. Chackowicz¹, X. Zhang², M. Dahhou², R. Sapir-Pichhadze³, H. Cardinal⁴, B. Foster⁵
¹Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Dept. of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Dept. of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Dept. of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Previous studies of sex differences in heart transplant outcomes focused on interactions between donor and recipient sex, but did not consider the potentially modifying…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes after Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Older Recipients
J. Long¹, K. Jackson¹, J. Motter¹, S. Bae¹, A. Massie¹, M. Waldram¹, K. Covarrubias¹, J. Chen¹, B. Orandi², N. Desai¹, D. Segev¹, J. Garonzik-Wang¹
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Older individuals are the fastest-growing sub-group of transplant candidates who may face increased risks when considering incompatible living donor kidney transplantation (IKT) due to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcome between Identical Twins in USA from 2001-2017
D. R. Jorgensen, S. Hariharan
Starzl Transplant Institute, Univ of Pittsburgh Med Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: This study provides the outcome of Identical-Twin (IT) Kidney-Transplants (KT) in the USA.*Methods: The data from U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Health Statistics,…