2016 American Transplant Congress
A Nationwide Analysis of Reoperation After kidney Transplant.
Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
ObjectivesWe aim to report the rate and short-term outcomes of patients undergoing reoperation following kidney transplant in the United States.MethodsThe NIS database was used to…2016 American Transplant Congress
Experience Using a Discharge Calculator for Discharge Planning Post Liver Transplantation (OLT).
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
We previously developed and validated a nomogram to predict discharge disposition post OLT. The current study analyzes our experience using the discharge calculator.Patients &Methods:We retrospectively…2016 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Six-Minute-Walk Distance in Predicting Lung Transplant Benefit in the Lung Allocation Score Era.
Transplant physicians evaluate patients for lung transplant (LTx) who are on ventilators and ECMO with high lung allocation scores (LAS). Six-minute walk distance (6MWD) predicts…2016 American Transplant Congress
Three-Year Graft Loss Risk in Kidney Transplants: Dynamic Patient Level Data Improve Predictive Efficacy.
Background: Predictive models in kidney transplantation using national data (UNOS, SRTR) lack longitudinal patient level data, limiting accuracy. Adding patient level data capturing dynamic clinical…2016 American Transplant Congress
Composite Score to Define the Risk of Allograft Loss After Standard-of-Care Treatment of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation.
The development of a reliable surrogate endpoint for allograft survival after AMR treatment is a current unmet need in clinical transplantation (FDA AMR Workshop). We…2015 American Transplant Congress
Prediction of Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection in Antibody Incompatible Renal Transplantation Using Machine Learning for Wide Data
The dynamic field of renal transplantation is characterised by limited access to data, the high cost of equipment and underlying complexity of immunological responses to…2015 American Transplant Congress
MELD Velocity – An Early Predictor of Increased Mortality Risk
INTRODUCTION: MELD is a satisfactory predictor of 3-month mortality in patients with cirrhosis. However, sub-populations of patients at increased hazard of mortality, but not well…2015 American Transplant Congress
Multicenter Study to Develop a Novel Prediction Index for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Recurrence After Liver Transplant (LT)
1UCSF, San Francisco, CA; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Several factors have been associated with a high risk of recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation (LT), but no reliable risk score has…2015 American Transplant Congress
External Validation of Clinical Prediction Models of Patient and Graft Survival in a Canadian Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients
Background: Several clinical prediction models (CPM) of patient and graft survival in kidney transplant recipients have been developed as tools to assist physicians in identifying…2015 American Transplant Congress
Gender Differences in Kidney Transplant Delayed Graft Function Are Independent of Donor-Recpient Size Mismatch
Introduction: Superior female tolerance of ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) relative to males has been described in animal models, but little human data are available to…
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