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Articles tagged "Post-operative complications"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Living Kidney Donor Pharmaceutical Care Needs Identified Through Linked Transplant Registry and Pharmacy Claims Data.

    K. Lentine,1 S. Gustafson,2 M. Schnitzler,1 G. Hess,3 D. Segev,4 A. Garg,5 N. Lam,6 D. Axelrod,7 D. Brennan,8 H. Randall,1 B. Kasiske.9

    1St Louis Univ, St Louis, MO; 2SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; 3Symphony Health, Philadelphia, PA; 4Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; 5Western Univ, London, Canada; 6Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 7E Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC; 8Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO

    Limited data are available on pharmaceutical care needs of living kidney donors (LKD).We integrated 1) national US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data for LKD…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Are Drains Required After Donor Hepatectomy?

    S. Sharma, S. Kumar, K. Yadav, S. Sable, A. Chauhan, S. Kapoor, V. Varma, V. Kumaran.

    Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery Department, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Abdominal drainage after donor hepatectomy is a routine practice in most of the LDLT centres. But the routine abdominal drainage after donor hepatectomy is questioned…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Intraabdominal Infections (IAI) and Bloodstream Infections in Small Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplants (IMVTX).

    A. Spence,1 S. Fogleman,1 G. Raffaele,2 C. Matsumoto,2 P. Kumar,1 R. Biswas,1 T. Fishbein,2 J. Timpone.1

    1Division of Infectious Diseases, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; 2Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington

    BackgroundIMVTX is a treatment option for patients with intestinal failure. IMVTX is often complicated by infection in the post-transplant period with the abdomen and bloodstream…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Felodipine Diminishes Decline in Glomerular Filtration Rate in Lung Transplanted Patients Treated with Cyclosporine: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial.

    M. Hornum,1 M. Iversen,2 P. Oturai,3 M. Andersen,2 M. Zemtsovski,4 P. Bredahl,4 N. Bjarnason,2 K. Christiansen,5 J. Carlsen,2 C. Møller,6 B. Feldt-Rasmussen,1 M. Perch.2

    1Nephrology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2Cardiology, Section for Lung Transplantation, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 4Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 5Public Health, Section of Biostatics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 6Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Background. Calcium channel blockers may ameliorate the decline in renal function caused by calcineurin inhibitors in lung transplant (LTX) recipients. We previously demonstrated a 47…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Retrospective Analysis of Multiple Hemodialysis Access Modalities.

    V. Bowers,1 H. Pearson,1 J. Huang,1 J. Leone,1 A. Tanious,1 K. Dawley,1 E. Rogers,1 V. Camba,2 C. Albertson,2 D. Lahiff,2 T. Rashid,2 J. Buggs.1

    1Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; 2University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

    The use of native arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) for hemodialysis (HD) is the gold standard, however, for many patients, this is not an option. We hypothesize…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Risk of Venous Thromboembolism After Lung Transplant.

    R. Felkner,1 A. Condon,2 K. Rolling,3 M. Hayney.3

    1William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI; 2UW Health, Madison, WI; 3University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI

    PurposeVenous thromboembolism (VTE) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality following lung transplantation. The purpose of this study was to describe the incidence of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Utility of Weighted Composite Endpoints in Kidney Transplantation.

    J. Schold, D. Goldfarb, S. Flechner, L. Buccini, J. Augustine, E. Poggio.

    Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

    IntroductionAdvances in therapeutic development and innovation are stifled in transplantation based on difficulties demonstrating efficacy of novel interventions using standard endpoints. Current RCTs are constrained…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Biliary Complications in Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis: A Single-Center Experience with Choledochocholedochostomy.

    P. Rizk, J. Moffett, M. Vu, R. Ackah, R. Sigireddi, M. Finegold, C. O'Mahony, A. Rana, J. Goss.

    Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    BackgroundFor adult liver transplants, choledochocholedochostomy or “duct-to-duct” biliary reconstruction is the standard of care. In contrast to a Roux-en-Y reconstruction, it maintains physiologic bile flow,…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Improves Renal Transplant Candidacy and Posttransplant Outcomes in Morbidly Obese Patients.

    Y. Kim, A. Jung, V. Dhar, J. Tadros, R. Alloway, A. Shields, S. Woodle, T. Diwan.

    Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

    BACKGROUND: Morbid obesity remains a barrier to kidney transplantation (KT) and is associated with increased delayed graft function (DGF), graft loss, and wound complications. Laparoscopic…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Size Does Not Matter: Should the Decision to Split Pediatric En Bloc Donor Kidneys Be Based on Donor Weight Rather Than Kidney Length?

    A. Perry, J. Woloszyn, J. McVicar, J. Sageshima, R. Perez, C. Troppmann, C. Santhanakrishnan.

    Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA

    Background: Deceased donor kidneys from pediatric donors have been used with good results. However, there is little consensus on the criteria used to safely split…
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