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Pulmonary Function Tests and Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Liver transplant recipients have a high risk of developing postoperative pulmonary complications. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are expensive and often incapable of predicting patients…2022 American Transplant Congress
Evolving Trends In The Management And Outcome Of Duodenal Complications After Pancreas Transplantation: A 20-year Single Institution Experience
*Purpose: Duodenal leaks have been a sinister complication in any major gastro-intestinal operation. With an incidence ranging from 4-10%, these have been one of the…2022 American Transplant Congress
Reduction in Opioid Discharge Prescribing for Kidney Transplant Recipients Through Implementation of a Standardized Opioid Prescribing Policy
*Purpose: Diversion of unused opioid medications has contributed to the opioid epidemic, and opioid use after kidney transplantation has been shown to be a risk…2022 American Transplant Congress
Graft and Patient Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Tourism: A Single-Center Experience
*Purpose: The expanding supply-demand mismatch between organs available for transplantation and patients in need led to the growth of transplant tourism. In our study, we…2022 American Transplant Congress
Of the Individual Components of a Modified Freid Frailty Score, Pre-Transplant Walk Time and Grip Strength Are the Strongest Predictors of Post Kidney Transplant Outcomes
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Frailty assessment has become common during evaluation for kidney transplantation; however, a variety of different tools are used for frailty assessment. The Freid frailty…2022 American Transplant Congress
Older Donor Age is Associated with Worse Living Donor Liver Transplantation Outcomes in a National US Cohort
*Purpose: To evaluate the impact of increasing living donor (LD) age on living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) outcomes in the U.S.*Methods: A retrospective cohort of…2022 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Blood Pressure and Risk of Delayed Graft Function in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Evaluate association between preoperative blood pressure and delayed graft function (DGF) in deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT)*Methods: In this single center study of adult…2022 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Self-Reported Physical Function to In-Person Frailty Assessments for the Prediction of Rehospitalizations After Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Rehospitalizations are common after kidney transplantation (KT) and associated with increased cost, allograft failure, and death. Physical frailty as defined by Fried criteria has…2022 American Transplant Congress
Cost-Effectiveness of an Intra-Operative Renal Allograft Cooling Device
1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Stanford, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Existing literature shows intra-operative cooling of a renal allograft during anastomosis reduces the incidence of delayed graft function in deceased donor kidney transplant recipients…2022 American Transplant Congress
En-Bloc Kidney Transplantation in Children Over a 33-year Period in USA – A Comparative Study
*Purpose: En-bloc kidney transplantation is not commonly performed due to scarcity of such organs as well as due to potential technical and thrombotic problems. We…
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