Articles tagged "Outcome"

2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Race on Metabolic, Graft and Patient Outcomes after Pancreatic Transplantation
V. S. Rohan, S. N. Nadig, J. Mcgillicuddy, V. Rao, D. Dubay, K. Soliman, P. Baliga, D. Taber
Transplant Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Health disparities in African-Americans (AAs) are well-documented in kidney transplantation. There is a paucity of data regarding effect race in pancreas transplant (PTX) outcomes.*Methods:…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Total Pancreatectomyand Islet Autotransplantation, a Single Center Experience
A. Rajab¹, J. Buss¹, L. F. Lara², S. Meng³, K. Kuntz⁴, D. Conwell², P. A. Hart², K. Washburn¹
¹Transplant Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ²Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ³Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁴Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: Patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) suffer from severe pain that greatly reduces their quality of life and often leads to long-term narcotic therapy to…
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
Chronic Changes on Time Zero Living Donor Allograft Biopsy Do Not Portend Future Kidney Function
A. Agarwal¹, A. Sites², K. L. Brayman¹, A. Doyle³, J. Oberholzer¹, A. Nishio-Lucar³
¹Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ²Transplant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ³Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: The predictive ability of implantation biopsies of kidney allografts on either future recipient or living donor kidney function has not been fully elucidated. Herein,…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Women Who Undergo Liver Transplant Have Increased Health Care Utilization in the Peri-Transplant Period Compared with Men
J. B. Rubin, G. Cullaro, J. Ge, J. C. Lai
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Univeristy of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We have previously shown that women on the liver transplant (LT) waitlist are at greater risk of hospitalization compared with men, but whether this…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Poor Long-Term Outcome of Liver Transplant Recipients with Preexisting Renal Insufficiency
M. Sterneck¹, M. Touma¹, T. Horvatits², S. Pischke², U. Herden³, A. Lohse², L. Fischer³
¹University Transplant Center, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ²Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ³Department of Visceral Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
*Purpose: Due to the MELD based allocation system the number of patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) with severely impaired renal function has markedly increased.…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor, Recipient Indices and Frailty Predict Outcomes after Heart-Kidney Transplantation
C. Beifeld¹, V. Dio Guardi¹, K. Lau¹, A. Di Carlo¹, S. Karhadkar²
¹Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ²Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Simultaneous heart kidney transplantation (SHKT) is increasing in frequency; however there is a lack of consensus regarding patient selection criteria for this life saving…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Correlates of Surgical Difficulty and Post-Operative Complications in Living Donor Kidney Procurement
B. I. Shaw¹, F. R. Schwartz², F. Vernucci², F. Rigiroli², F. Gonzalez², R. Lerebours³, A. S. Rege¹, D. Vikraman¹, D. Marin², K. V. Ravindra¹
¹Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Radiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, ³Biostatistics, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Living donor kidney donation is essential for decreasing waitlists for kidney transplantation. Though donor nephrectomy is a standard operation, there is a paucity of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Postoperative Telemonitoring Following Kidney Transplantation: Effects on Early Hospital Readmissions and Graft Outcomes
N. Elfadawy, V. Humphreville, A. Padiyar, E. Sanchez, N. Sarabu
University hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Telemonitoring has been recently shown to improve outcomes and reduce hospital admission rate in cardiac patients. We sought to study the effect of telemonitoring…