Articles tagged "Pediatric"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Longer Ischemic Time Is Associated with Late Graft Dysfunction in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.
L. Schroeder,¹ S. Chowdhury,¹ A. Burnette,¹ H. Baker,¹ A. Savage,¹ A. Atz,¹ R. Butts.²
¹Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; ²UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between clinical factors and cardiac function as measured by pressure-volume loops (PVL) in a pediatric…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Recipients of Deceased Adult Donor Kidneys Have Equivalent Outcomes Compared with Pediatric Donors.
D. Mikhail,¹ H. Sharma,^3,4 J. Chen,² M. Cooper,⁴ A. Sener,^1,3 P. Luke.^1,3
¹Urology, Western University, London, ON, Canada; ²Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada; ³Multi-Organ Transplant Surgery, Western University, London, ON, Canada; ⁴Transplant Surgery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
INTRODUCTION:Efforts are made to transplant paediatric deceased donor kidneys into pediatric recipients. To our knowledge, data does not support better graft outcomes with matched pediatric…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Life-Years Saved After Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
R. Gruessner, A. Gruessner.
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Introduction: Transplantation has provided tremendous progress for pediatric patients with liver failure.We determined the survival benefit for pediatric patients as reported to UNOS.Methods: In this…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Reported Barriers to Immunosuppression Adherence Among a Cohort of Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients from the United States and Canada.
O. Bignall II,^1,2 A. Pai,² S. Amaral,³ S. Furth,³ N. Bergman,² J. Goebel,⁴ The TAKE-IT Study Investigators, B. Foster.⁵
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; ²Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; ³Nephrology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, CO; ⁵Nephrology, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine differences in reported barriers to immunosuppressant adherence (IA) between a cohort of pediatric renal transplant recipients…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Portal Venous Flow Volume Measurements May Aid Intraoperative Management of Large Portosystemic Shunts During Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
T. Pshak,¹ J. Roach,² F. Karrer,² M. Wachs.²
¹Transplant Surgery, Univ of Colorado, Aurora, CO; ²Transplant Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO.
PURPOSE: In pediatric patients undergoing liver transplantation, portal hypoperfusion can result in irreversible portal vein thrombosis and early graft loss. Intraoperative hepatic hemodynamic studies have…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes After Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Malignant Liver Tumors: Effects of Era and Age.
R. Patel,¹ I. Feurer,¹ S. Karp,¹ L. Gillis,¹ H. Katzenstein,¹ H. Lovvorn III,¹ J. Pietsch,¹ D. Chung, G. Tiao,² D. Hanto.¹
¹Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN; ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Background: Hepatoblastoma (HB), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), along with hemangioendothelioma, hemangiosarcoma, and angiosarcoma (HHA) are rare tumors in children that are treated with orthotopic liver transplantation…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Paediatric Non-Kidney Transplant Recipients.
C. Williams,^1,2 K. Borges,² T. Banh,² J. Vasilevska-Ristovska,² R. Chanchlani,^1,2 V. Ng,^1,2 A. Dipchand,^1,2 M. Solomon,^1,2 D. Hebert,^1,2 S. Kim,^1,3 B. Astor,⁴ R. Parekh.^1,2,3
¹University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ²Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; ³University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; ⁴University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Background: Kidney dysfunction is common after solid organ transplantation; however, rates of post-transplant AKI and CKD in children are unknown.Objective: Determine rates of AKI and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes with the Use of Pediatric Donor Livers in Adult Recipients: Review of the UNOS Database.
K. Croome, D. Lee, J. Burns, J. Nguyen, D. Perry, C. Taner.
Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL.
Background: While there is an agreement that pediatric donor (PD) livers should ideally be used for pediatric recipients, there remain some situations where these livers…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Specific Antibodies in a Single-Center Pediatric Kidney Transplant Population – Incidence and Risk Factors.
M. Bock,¹ L. Starkey,¹ C. Buchanan,² E. Steinberg,² A. Sikora,² K. McKinnon,² M. Wachs,² J. Goebel.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO; ²Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO.
In mid-2015, we implemented donor-specific antibody (DSA) monitoring in our pediatric kidney transplant recipient (pKTR) population as recommended (Transplantation 2013;95:19-). We now cross-sectionally analyzed our…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Children With Biliary Atresia in the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease Era: The Role of Age and Insurance Status.
J. Chu,^1,2 R. Annunziato,³ R. Aviles,³ R. Arnon.^1,2
¹Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY; ²Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY; ³Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.
Lower socioeconomic status has been linked to inferior health outcomes. We have previously shown that children with biliary atresia (BA) who have public insurance (PU)…