Articles tagged "Outcome"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Outcomes, Care Needs and Adherence in Long Term Intestine Transplant Survivors ≥10 yrs
B. Kosmach-Park,¹ G. Mazariegos.²
¹Transplant Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.
Background: Although survival has increased significantly for pediatric ITx recipients, continued graft surveillance and monitoring of clinical and psychosocial outcomes are essential. Purpose: Describe clinical…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Donor and Recipient Obesity in Kidney Transplantation
J. Buggs,¹ R. Mehta,² M. Adesunkanmi,² J. Boone,² E. Rogers,³ A. Kumar,⁴ V. Bowers.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Medical Group, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; ²Pre-Med Undergraduate, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; ³Transplant Research, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; ⁴Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Introduction: Obesity (BMI >30) is a world health epidemic projected to increase the incidence of diabetes, the leading cause of kidney failure. The shortage of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Assesment of a Novel Chronic Kidney Disease Educational and Goal Setting Tool among Liver Transplant Recipients
R. Leek,¹ J. Park,¹ C. Koerschner,² J. Mawby,³ J. Wright Nunes,⁴ C. Sonnenday,³ P. Sharma.²
¹College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ³Transplantation Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁴Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Background: Stage 4-5 chronic kidney disease(CKD) among liver transplant(LT) recipients is common and associated with diminished patient and graft outcomes. Our previous study showed that…
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Outcome Implications of Benzodiazepines and Opioid Co-Prescriptions before Kidney Transplantation
N. Lam,¹ M. Schnitzler,² D. Axelrod,³ V. Dharnidharka,⁴ D. Segev,⁵ A. Naik,⁶ H. Xiao,² R. Ouseph,² H. Randall,² G. Hess,⁷ B. Kasiske,⁸ D. Brennan,⁵ T. Alhamad,⁴ K. Lentine.²
¹Univ Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ²Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis; ³Lahey Clinic, Burlington; ⁴Washington Univ, St. Louis; ⁵Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; ⁶Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁷Hennepin, Minneapolis; ⁸Symphony Health, Conshohocken.
Recent studies have identified co-prescription of benzodiazepines and opioids as a risk factor for adverse outcomes in the general population. We previously described associations of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Morbidity Outcomes in Live Kidney Donors in the UK: 15 Year Compartive Cohort Study
N. Krishnan,¹ L. Mumford,³ G. Lipkin,⁴ S. Fletcher,¹ I. Dasgupta,⁵ P. Gill,⁶ R. Ryan,⁷ N. Raymond.⁸
¹Renal Unit, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom; ²Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom; ³Statistics and Clinical Studies, Organ Donation and Transplant, National Health Services Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom; ⁴Renal Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁵Renal Unit, Heart of England Hospitals, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁶Academic Unit of Primary Care, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom; ⁷Primary Care, West Midlands, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ⁸Statistics, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Understanding risks and long-term outcomes of live kidney donation is essential.To investigate longer-term morbidity outcomes of live kidney donors (LD) compared to healthy controls.Ethics approval…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Improved Long-Term Outcomes of Pancreas Transplantation: Analysis of Allograft Half-Lives and Predictive Demographic Factors
A. Adamusiak, R. Kandaswamy, T. Dunn, S. Riad, E. Finger.
Department of Surgery Division of Transplantation, University of Minessota, Minneapolis, MN.
In contrast to other solid organ transplants, the characteristics of long term surviving pancreas transplants have not been well described. Our objective was to measure…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Unique Recipient Benefits with Paired Kidney Donation
J. Buggs,¹ E. Rogers,² V. Bowers.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Medical Group, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; ²Transplant Research, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL.
Introduction: Kidney transplantation is the treatment choice for ESRD with improved survival and cost benefit compared with dialysis. The imbalance of supply over demand along…
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Non-US Citizen Liver Transplant Recipients (LTR) Have Superior Outcomes Compared to US Citizen LTR: A Retrospective Study of 50,422 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015
T. Butler,¹ A. Rana,² M. Garfinkel.¹
¹Department of Transplantation, Southern Illniois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL; ²Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor, Houston, TX.
The US performs over 7,000 liver transplants per year and a substantial subset of Non-US citizen recipients exist. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policy…
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Outcomes of ABO Non-Identical Pancreas Transplant
S. Nagaraju, R. Mangus, J. Fridell.
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis.
A data review of all pancreas transplants since 2003 (n=606) at our institution revealed 41 recipients of a non-identical ABO donor pancreas. They were matched…
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Outcomes after Cardiac Transplantation for Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the Modern Era
X. Zeng,¹ R. Vela,² J. Pruszynski,² J. Martinez,² S. Ring,² M. Peltz.²
¹Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; ²Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallss, TX.
Background: More patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are surviving into adulthood and require heart transplantation. These patients historically experienced worse survival early after transplantation.…