2016 American Transplant Congress
Planning Genitourinary Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: A Pre-Operative Imaging Protocol.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Study purpose: To define the ideal pre-operative imaging protocol necessary for proper planning of a genitourinary vascularised composite allotransplantation (GUVCA) procedure.Methods: The multidisciplinary GUVCA team…2016 American Transplant Congress
Elevated Lung Shunt Fraction as an Independent Predictor of Local Disease Progression and Metastasis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Purpose: To establish a relationship between lung shunt fraction (LSF) and local disease progression as well as the development of metastatic disease.Materials and Methods: A…2016 American Transplant Congress
Portal Vein Complication After Living Donor Right Hepatectomy.
BackgroundLiving donor hepatectomy may carry a significant risk of morbidity and mortality for the otherwise healthy donor. Portal vein (PV) complication after donor hepatectomy is…2016 American Transplant Congress
Fractional Excretion of NGAL Instead of 99mTcMAG3 Renography to Monitor Resolution of Delayed Graft Function.
Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Introduction: Kidneys transplanted from extended criteria donors have a higher prevalence of delayed graft function (DGF). Early identification of factors that prolong duration of DGF…2016 American Transplant Congress
Muscle Function, Mass, and Quality in Obese Liver Transplant Candidates: Results from the Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study.
Background: Sarcopenia, or severe loss of muscle mass, is common in cirrhotics and adversely affects quality of life and transplant outcomes. Obese liver transplant(LT) candidates…2015 American Transplant Congress
Refinement of Non-Invasive Diagnostic Criteria to Differentiate Tumor from Bland Portal Vein Thrombosis Before Liver Transplant in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Differentiating tumor vs bland portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is essential in determining liver transplant (LT) candidacy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The primary aim…2015 American Transplant Congress
Morphometric Age as a Predictor of Survival Following Kidney Transplantation
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
INTRODUCTION: Better measures of pre-operative risk stratification are needed in kidney transplantation. Analytic morphomics, which utilizes pre-operative imaging, has been shown to objectively assess mortality…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Operative Assessment of Body Composition in Adult Multivisceral Transplant Candidates
Department of Surgery, Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Body Mass Index is commonly used, but is likely to be an inexact measurement of nutritional status. For this reason, we examined whether body composition…2015 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Significance of Multidetector Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography to Evaluate the Prevalence and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease in Asymptomatic Kidney Transplantation Recipients
Introduction: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the leading causes of mortality in kidney transplant (KT) recipients. Noninvasive coronary angiography using multidetector computed tomography…2015 American Transplant Congress
Unrecognized Synchronous Hepatocellcular Carcinoma Lesions in Explanted Liver Transplant Specimens
Introduction: Liver resection for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is limited by high surgical risk in cirrhotics and high rates of intrahepatic recurrence. We postulated that…
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