Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for COVID-19-associated Cholangiopathy
J. Blondeel¹, P. Meersseman², N. Gilbo¹, I. Jochmans¹, M. Sainz-Barriga¹, J. Pirenne¹, D. Monbaliu¹
¹Abdominal Transplantation Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: The hallmark viral pneumonia of coronavirus-19-disease (COVID-19) is often accompanied by important extra-pulmonary manifestations. Liver dysfunction occurs in up to 45% of COVID-19 patients,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Experience with Broad Renal Genetic Testing in an Academic Transplant Center
E. Tantisattamo¹, K. Brossart², N. Ioannou², S. McCormick², P. R. Billings², H. Tabriziani²
¹Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA, ²Natera, Inc., San Carlos, CA
*Purpose: Genetic testing is an emerging tool in kidney transplantation (KT), particularly to assess risk of recurrent disease in patients with KT and for selection…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors Predicting Outcomes in Long-Term Pediatric Kidney Transplant Graft Survival
A. Anand, T. H. Malik, J. Dunson, M. F. McDonald, C. R. Christmann, N. Nguyen Galvan, C. O'Mahony, J. A. Goss, P. R. Srivaths, E. D. Brewer, A. Rana
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Pediatric kidney transplant recipients generally have good outcomes post-transplantation; however, the younger age and longer lifespan after transplantation in the pediatric population make understanding…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Australian and New Zealand Living Kidney Donor Profile Index
G. L. Irish¹, S. Chadban¹, N. Boudville², S. B. Campbell³, J. Kanellis⁴, P. A. Clayton¹
¹Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia, ²Medical School, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, ³Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia
*Purpose: Risk scores may aid risk quantification and decision-making in kidney transplantation. The Living Kidney Donor Profile Index (LKDPI) was developed to choose between living…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Transplant-free Survival in Alcohol-related Liver Disease (ALD) Patients Presenting with First Evidence of Ascites
K. Fahoum¹, N. T. Shen², E. Basu¹, J. Lee³, A. Kaplan², A. Salajegheh⁴, R. Rosenblatt², A. Jesudian², C. Lucero², B. Fortune², M. M. Safford⁵, R. S. Brown²
¹Medical College, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵General Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: The development of ascites is a poor prognostic sign for patients with cirrhosis. The factors associated with transplant-free survival at initial presentation with ascites…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Introducing the Smartphone App, EL-FIT (Exercise & Liver FITness), to Help Monitor and Prehabilitate Liver Transplant Candidates
A. Duarte-Rojo¹, P. M. Bloomer¹, R. J. Rogers², M. A. Dunn¹, E. B. Tapper³, R. Bataller¹, C. B. Hughes¹, A. A. Ferrando¹, W. R. Kim⁴, J. M. Jakicic²
¹University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Physical activity is key to liver transplant (LT) prehabilitation, and leveraging technologies to monitor physical performance and to generalize training may be advantageous. EL-FIT…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Analysis of Risks Factors for Kidney Allograft Loss Due to Bk Nephropathy and Graft Loss Due to Other Causes: UNOS Data Set
H. Patel¹, L. Kruger¹, K. Agarwal¹, A. Pawar¹, N. Leeaphorn², F. Cardarelli¹, N. Agrawal¹
¹Transplant Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Transplant Nephrology, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine/Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, MO
*Purpose: 1-10% of the kidney transplant recipients develop BK virus nephropathy (BKVN). The risk factors associated with BKVN are not clearly understood. Here, we evaluate…
2020 American Transplant Congress
dd-cfDNA as a Risk Factor for Initiating De-Novo Donor Specific Antibodies in Heart Transplantation
E. DePasquale¹, J. Kobashigawa², S. Pinney³, K. Khush⁴
¹Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Hills, CA, ³Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, ⁴Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: We hypothesize that subclinical inflammation, resulting in molecular injury of the cardiac allograft, may contribute to sensitization of the recipients’ immune system. Antigenic presentation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Early Recurrence Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following Transplantation: Risk Score From A Multi-institutional Study Of > 3000 Patients
P. Tabrizian¹, M. Holzner², V. Agopian³, R. Busuttil³, G. Sapisochin⁴, N. Mehta⁵, F. Yao⁵, J. Roberts⁶, S. Florman¹, M. E. Schwartz¹, T. Ivanics⁷, J. Emond⁸, B. Samstein⁹, R. Brown, MD, MPH⁹, M. Najjar¹⁰, W. Chapman¹¹, M. Doyle¹¹, K. Halazun⁹
¹Transplant, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC, MD, ³Transplant, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Transplant, Univeristy of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Transplant, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Transplantation, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁷Transplant, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Transplant, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁹Transplant, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹⁰Transplant, Columbia Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹¹Transplant, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: Early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation (LT) carries a poor prognosis. We aimed to develop a risk score for early HCC…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Predictors of Acute Kidney Injury among Liver Transplant Recipients
R. Berkowitz¹, N. Douville², G. Mentz², P. Sharma³, C. Sonnenday¹
¹Surgery, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Anesthesiology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Gastroenterology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: We examined the perioperative and intraoperative risk factors associated with post-operative acute kidney injury (AKI) at post-op 7 days and 30-day estimated glomerular filtration…

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