Articles tagged "Outcome"

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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function, Albuminuria, and the Risk of Hemorrhage and Thrombosis after Kidney Transplantation
N. N. Lam¹, P. Ravani², R. R. Quinn², M. Tonelli², F. Ye¹, B. R. Hemmelgarn², M. M. Sood³
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Compared to the general population, kidney transplant recipients are at increased risk of hemorrhage and thrombosis. Whether this risk is affected by kidney function…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Lung Transplantation in the Elderly Patients with Multi-Comorbidities
N. Shigemura, Y. Toyoda
Temple University Health System / Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Recently there is an outstanding steadily increase in elderly patients above 70 years old who are referred to our center as potential candidates for…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation after Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Morbidly Obese Candidate: Results of a Five-Year Experience
Y. Kim, A. J. Bailey, M. C. Morris, J. Hlavaty, M. C. Cuffy, E. S. Woodle, S. A. Shah, T. S. Diwan
Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Morbid obesity serves as a barrier to kidney transplantation (KT) due to potential suboptimal post-transplant outcomes. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has previously been shown…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Life After Islet/Pancreas Transplantation in Insulin Dependent Diabetic Patients: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
I. Mosca¹, S. Knight², S. Mittal³, P. J. Friend¹
¹Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Simon Knight, Oxford, United Kingdom, ³Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Shruti Mittal, Oxford, United Kingdom
*Purpose: To investigate the current literature on Quality of Life after Islet and Pancreas Transplantation in Insulin Dependent Diabetic Patients with or without renal failure.*Methods:…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Outcomes Following Transplantation Of Allografts From Older Live Kidney Donors With Hypertension
F. Al Ammary¹, S. Yu², A. D. Muzaale³, D. C. Brennan⁴, A. C. Wiseman⁵, D. L. Segev³, A. B. Massie³
¹Johns Hopkins Medicine, Greenbelt, MD, ²Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁵Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Healthy older live kidney donor candidates with hypertension may provide an opportunity to increase live kidney donation. However, the impact of this practice on…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Letermovir For The Treatment And Secondary Prophylaxis Of Drug Resistant CMV In Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
M. R. Pereira¹, J. G. Aaron¹, C. J. Kubin²
¹Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Medicine - Infectious Diseases, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: Although only approved for primary prophylaxis of CMV among allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients, there is great interest in the use of letermovir (LET)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
5,000 Living Donor Liver Transplantations
G. Song, S. Lee, S. Hwang, K. Kim, C. Ahn, D. Moon, T. Ha, D. Jung, G. Park, Y. Yoon, J. Kwon, H. Cho, Y. Jung, S. Kang, I. Jeong, J. Choi
Division of LT and HBB Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: To review single center's experiences in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and analyze risk factors affecting short and long-term outcomes.*Methods: Retrospective analysis of 5,000…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Innsbruck Handtransplant Program: Eighteen Years of Experience
F. Messner, T. Hautz, A. Weissenbacher, S. Schneeberger
Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
*Purpose: Reconstructive transplantation represents a therapeutic option for severe tissue defects which are not amendable to conventional reconstructive attempts. We herein report long-term follow-up data…