2021 American Transplant Congress
Comprehensive Intrahepatic Biliary Anatomy Underscores the Split-ability and the Origin of Biliary Leakage in Hemiliver Split Liver Transplant
*Purpose: Hemiliver splitting is an effective approach to optimize the number of liver allografts available for both adult and pediatric patients on liver transplant waitlist.…2021 American Transplant Congress
Intestinal Insufficiency May Affect Outcomes After Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine if pre-transplant feeding intolerance is associated with poorer post-OLT (orthotopic liver transplant) outcomes in pediatric liver…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Splenectomy on Living Donor Liver Transplantation Using Small Grafts
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Simultaneous splenectomy with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is widely used in Asian countries to decrease the risk of small-for-size syndrome (SFSS). However, the…2021 American Transplant Congress
Postoperative Tracheostomy as a Predictor of Poor Clinical Outcomes in Lung Transplantation
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Tracheostomies are commonly performed postoperatively in lung transplant recipients to provide ventilation for prolonged periods, and with relatively few studies detailing these patients’ outcomes…2021 American Transplant Congress
Re-Do Hepatic Artery Reconstruction for Thrombosis Can Save Grafts and Patients without Retransplantation: Lessons Learned from 1,355Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantations
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) after liver transplantation is associated with a marked increase in morbidity, being the main cause of graft loss and bile…2021 American Transplant Congress
AM PAC Scores and Liver Transplant Resource Utilization
*Purpose: Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) is a tool utilized to assess three functional domains: basic mobility, daily activities, and applied cognition. Previous studies…2021 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Blood Transfusion is Associated with the Development of New HLA Antibodies After Adult Lung Transplantation
*Purpose: Lung transplant (LT) recipients who develop new antibodies to human leukocyte antigen (HLA) have associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction and worsened outcomes. We…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Thromboelastography on Decreasing Blood Product Usage in Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Liver dysfunction results in derangement of hemostasis and thrombosis. Thromboelastography (TEG) has emerged as a tool to guide resuscitative efforts. However, its utilization and…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Utility of PET/ CT Testing in Cardiac Risk Stratification of Adult Liver Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Optimal cardiovascular (CV) risk stratification in liver transplant (LT) candidates remains unclear. The aim of this study was to assess concordance and utility of…2021 American Transplant Congress
Quality Improvement Surveillance by Machine Learning
*Purpose: The purpose of this quality study was to compare our newly developed natural language processing (NLP) machine learning surveillance algorithm in detecting the rate…
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