Articles tagged "Post-operative complications"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Bladder Drainage of Pancreas Transplants Alone: Friend or Foe?
M. Bellini,¹ G. Spoletini,² S. Reddy,¹ J. Gilbert,¹ I. Quiroga,¹ R. Ploeg,¹ E. Sharples,³ S. Sinha,¹ A. Vaidya,¹ P. Friend.¹
¹Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Royal Free London NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; ³Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Immunological monitoring of Pancreas Transplants Alone (PTA) remains a challenge and bladder drainage is thought to facilitate early detection of rejection but may lead…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Factors and Early Hospital Readmission After Kidney Transplant at a Single Center
J. Lin, E. King, R. Craig-Shapiro, C. Wickliffe, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Early hospital readmission (EHR) is a key negative outcome in kidney transplantation (KT). Socioeconomic (SE) factors are associated with EHR in other contexts, but have…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of the Effects of N-Acetylcysteine Treatment in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients
E. Aldag, S. Farrell, R. Pedersen, A. Sahajpal, J. Clendenon, V. Gunabushanam, D. Kramer.
Aurora St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
Background: N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been used in post-orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) patients for the proposed mechanism of preventing tissue damage of the newly transplanted organ…