Articles tagged "Post-operative complications"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Graft and Patient Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Tourism: A Single-Center Experience
A. Altheaby¹, R. Algain², R. Salem², A. Alotaibi², K. Owaidah², M. Tawahri¹, M. Shaheen³, Z. Arabi⁴
¹Nephrology, King Abdulaziz Medical City-NGHA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Internal Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City-NGHA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ³King Saud Bin Abdulaziz for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Renal Transplant, King Abdulaziz Medical City-NGHA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
*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
S. Parajuli, F. Aziz, H. L. Lorden, K. A. O'Toole, R. E. Wallschlaeger, I. C. Breyer, B. Dodin, J. Goronzik Wang, D. A. Mandelbrot
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
M. Kanneganti¹, K. M. Olthoff², T. Bittermann³
¹Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*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
S. Wazir, M. Abbas, P. Ratanasreemehta, C. Zhang, C. M. Puttarajappa
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
E. Lorenz¹, C. Kennedy¹, C. Schinstock¹, A. Kukla¹, D. Eton¹, H. Wadei², G. Mour³, P. Dean⁴, A. Rule¹, N. LeBrasseur¹, A. Cheville¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
*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
K. Hansen¹, C. Yock², J. Pietzsch²
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
P. Gogalniceanu¹, I. D. Kostakis², P. Chandak³, G. Papadakis⁴, J. Stojanovic⁵, F. Calder⁴, I. Loukopoulos⁴, N. Kessaris⁴
¹Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Guy's Hospital, London, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas Hospitals NHS Trust and King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁴Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
*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…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Factor V Leiden Heterozygosity and Live Donor Liver Donation – A Single Center Analysis
D. Reddy, S. Ganesh, A. M. Thompson, V. Gunabushanam, A. Ganoza, M. Molinari, A. Tevar, C. Hughes, A. Humar
Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) accounts for only a small percentage (< 6%) of all liver transplants performed for adult recipients in the western…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy and Safety of Angiotensin II Compared to Catecholamine Vasopressors as a First-Line Vasopressor for Perioperative Hypotension in Kidney Transplant Recipients
G. Urias¹, J. Benken¹, A. Lichvar², D. Pierce¹, L. Andrews¹, K. Dalton³, A. Datta¹, H. Nishioka¹, E. Benedetti¹, S. Benken¹
¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA, ³St. David's Healthcare, Austin, TX
*Purpose: Perioperative use of catecholamine vasopressors (CV) in kidney transplantation (KT) have been associated with negative renal outcomes and the development of arrhythmias. A more…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Disulfide HMGB1 Reprograms Macrophages to Induce Alloimmunity via TLR4 and TLR9 Pathways Following Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Human Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
A. Q. Terry¹, R. A. Sosa¹, F. Kaldas², R. Busuttil³, D. Gjertson¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski¹, E. Reed¹
¹Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California Los Angeles (Multi-organ), Los Angeles, CA, ³Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Human hepatocellular damage caused by ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) generates the disulfide form of HMGB1 (diS HMGB1), eliciting myeloid cell activation and proinflammatory cytokine…