2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Outperform Other Populations in the New Hepatitis C Era
Background: Long term results of HCC liver transplants (LTx) in the recent era of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) against hepatitis C (HCV) are not available. We…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Living Kidney Transplant Donor and Recipient Operations with Same vs. Different Surgeons
Introduction: Living Kidney Transplantation (LKT) has provided a means of increasing the organ pool for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Surgical practices vary regarding…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospitalization and Life Support before Liver Transplantation – Easily Available Predictors for Post-Transplant Patient Survival
IntroductionCurrently liver allocation -in contrast to allocation of other organs- is based on urgency in many countries and survival benefit is not included. Aim of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Immediate Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Outcomes
Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction Delayed graft function (DGF), defined as dialysis needed the first week after transplantation are related with poor graft outcomes. There are few information about…2018 American Transplant Congress
Subclinical Borderline Rejection: More Than Meets the Eye?
UAB School of Medicine, Birmingham.
Purpose: Surveillance biopsies can detect subclinical T cell mediated rejection (SC-TCMR) or subclinical borderline rejection (SC-B-TCMR) in patients with normal/stable creatinine, but the impact on…2018 American Transplant Congress
Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy – The BMI Effect
Aims: To evaluate the outcomes of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy (LDN) across 4 BMI groups.Methods : Using the SRTR database, all LDNs performed between 2006-2015 were…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Propensity Matched Survival Analysis: Do Simultaneous Liver-Lung Transplant Recipients Need a Liver?
1School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC; 2Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Objective: There is debate whether simultaneous lung-liver transplant (LLT) long-term outcomes warrant allocation of two organs to a single recipient. We hypothesized that LLT recipients…2018 American Transplant Congress
Are Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Kidneys Unsuitable for Pediatric Recipients?
Introduction: Despite the fact that the number of pediatric patients listed for kidney transplantation far exceeds the supply of deceased donor kidneys, there is a…2018 American Transplant Congress
Examples of the Observer Effect in Transplantation- Unintended Consequences of Regulation and Selected Outcome Metrics
Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Introduction: The influence of an observer on the phenomena being observed is designated as the observer effect. It is our aim to demonstrate that an…2018 American Transplant Congress
Significance of Antibody-Mediated Vascular Rejection (AMVR) on Graft Survival: Correlation with Pure Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR)
Introduction: The importance of the endarteritis on graft survival in recipients with AMR is controversial. Thus we aimed to understand the prognostic value of the…
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