Articles tagged "Outcome"

2018 American Transplant Congress
EVLP on Donor Lungs: National Trends and Outcomes
R. Lehman,¹ R. Carrico,¹ K. Uccellini,¹ K. Chan,² T. Whelan.³
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ³Medical Univ of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Purpose: The OPTN/UNOS added fields to the deceased donor registration form on 3/31/2015 to capture the intent to utilize ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) on…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Effects of a Multimodal Pain Control Regimen in Living Donor Laparoscopic Nephrectomies
E. Thomas, J. Nelson, E. Diaz.
Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Purpose: Evaluate the effects of a multimodal pain control regimen on length of stay (LOS), opioid consumption, pain control, and opioid/NSAID related adverse events in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Development of an Individualized Online Shared Decision Making Tool for Kidney Transplant Candidates
A. Hart,^1,2,3 M. Bruin,¹ S. Chu,¹ M. Partin,¹ A. Matas,¹ C. John,¹ A. Israni.^1,2,3
¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; ²Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ³Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis.
Background: Inadequate knowledge hinders informed decision making in kidney transplant candidates. We conducted qualitative interviews and focus groups with patients and providers to inform development…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Offspring Living Kidney Donors Should Not Be Ruled Out
X. Luo, A. Massie, C. Holscher, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
A recent study (AJT, January 2018) suggested that kidneys from offspring live donors conferred worse post-transplant outcomes than non-offspring live donors, and advocated selecting non-offspring…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Functional Assessment of Kidney Transplant Candidates with the 6 Minute Walk Test and Hand Grip Strength
S. Anand,¹ S. Gilligan,² D. Morris,¹ T. Srinivas.
¹Transplant Nephrology, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray; ²University of Utah, Murray, UT.
Background: The 6 minute walk test distance (6MWT) and Isometric hand grand grip strength (HGS) have been studied in various settings as objective measures of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Graft and Patient Outcomes after Kidney Transplant for American Indians
R. Seipp, N. Zhang, H. Khamash, S. Leischow, A. Sharma, R. Heilman, M. Keddis.
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix.
Introduction: American Indian (AI) patients experience significant disparity in access to kidney transplant (KTx) with reported similar graft outcomes after KTx. Our objective is to…
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Early Predictors of Metabolic Outcomes in TPIAT
M. Kanak,¹ Y. Shindo,¹ M. Levy.^1,2
¹Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ²Hume-Lee Transplant Center, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA.
BackgroundTotal Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto-transplantation (TPIAT) has been actively performed on patients with severe, debilitating pain of chronic pancreatitis or recurrent acute pancreatitis. It is…
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Obesity is Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality among Living Kidney Donors
R. Reed,¹ A. Massie,² D. Sawinski,³ P. MacLennan,¹ B. Shelton,¹ M. Mustian,¹ D. McWilliams,¹ V. Kumar,¹ R. Mannon,¹ R. Gaston,¹ D. Segev,² C. Lewis,¹ J. Locke.¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Background: Living kidney donor (LKD) demographics have changed, and transplant centers have relaxed selection criteria to include LKDs with obesity. Recently, it has been shown…
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Liver Transplantation for Locally Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Treated with Neoadjuvant Therapy: A Pilot Cohort Study
K. Lunsford,¹ M. Javle,² K. Heyne,¹ R. Shroff,² R. Hassan Ali,² C. Mobley,¹ D. Victor,¹ A. Kaseb,² T. Aloia,² C. Conrad,² X. Li,¹ H. Monsour,¹ A. Gaber,¹ J-.N. Vauthey,² R. Ghobrial.¹
¹Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; ²MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
INTRODUCTIONIntrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is a well-recognized contraindication for liver transplantation (LT). Recent reports indicate favorable LT outcomes for early iCCA (<2cm), but, poor survival persists…
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Chronic Changes on Time Zero Living Donor Allograft Biopsy Portraits Worse Donor Renal Function
A. Nishio-Lucar,¹ J. Murphy,² A. Sites,³ H. Cathro,² A. Doyle,¹ K. Warburton,¹ A. Agarwal.⁴
¹Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ²Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ³Transplant Services, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ⁴Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
The prognostic ability of zero hour biopsy (ZHB) in renal allografts has not been fully elucidated. ZHB utility predicting living kidney donor (LKD) renal recovery…