Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Sarcopenia is Associated with Increased Post-Transplant Mortality
A. Gupta¹, T. Norris², R. Montgomery¹, S. Chakraborty¹, T. Thomas¹, D. Cibrik¹, J. Klein¹, M. Gupta¹, N. Herrera¹, T. Schmitt¹, A. Nawabi¹, J. Mahnken¹
¹University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ²University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS
*Purpose: Muscle wasting and sarcopenia in kidney disease is associated with increased cardiovascular events, morbidity and mortality. Psoas muscle cross-sectional area measured on a CT…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Surgery Continuing Professional Development Courses Increase Knowledge and Procedural Confidence
M. J. Hobeika¹, T. Menser², A. Kassam³, T. C. Rice⁴, T. S. Diwan³
¹Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ³University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Washington University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Continuing professional development (CPD) workshops are emerging to fill critical knowledge and skill gaps in both surgical trainees and practicing surgeons. The ASTS has…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Cross-Validation of Performance-Based Frailty against Daily Step Count from Personal Activity Trackers – Refining Prehabilitation Tools in Liver Transplant Candidates
M. A. Hassan¹, M. A. Dunn¹, P. M. Bloomer¹, A. H. Gougol¹, M. Serper², D. R. Jorgensen¹, A. Duarte-Rojo¹
¹Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: The AST proposed a toolkit to identify frailty in liver transplant (LT) candidates, including the liver frailty index (LFI) and 6-min walk test (6MWT).…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ambient Air Pollution and Post-Transplant Mortality among US Kidney Transplant Recipients
M. R. Jones¹, Y. Feng², N. Chu², D. Segev², M. McAdams-DeMarco¹
¹Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has been associated with increased mortality in the general US population and has been shown to negatively…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Baseline Anti-A/B IgG Titer on the Clinical Outcome in ABO-Incompatible Liver Transplantation
J. Lee¹, E. Kim¹, S. Yang¹, D. Kim², M. Ju³, J. Lee¹, M. Kim¹, S. Kim¹, D. Joo¹
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Surgery, Gangam Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The use of ABO incompatible (ABOi) living donors is an attractive solution for expanding the liver donor pool. We investigated the impact of the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improvement of Renal Function Prior to Liver Transplantation is Not Associated with Better Long-Term Renal Outcome or Mortality
M. Sterneck¹, T. Horvatits², M. Touma², U. Herden³, A. Lohse², L. Fischer³
¹University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ²Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, ³Transplant Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
*Purpose: Since introduction of the MELD score in the liver allocation system, renal impairment in OLT recipients has become a topic of increasing importance. This…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Selective Screening Imaging of the Aortoiliac Arterial System in Kidney Transplant Candidates Using Non Contrast Pevic Computed Tomography
N. Onaca, A. Wall, J. Bayer, H. Fernandez, E. Martinez, R. Ruiz, R. Goldstein, G. McKenna, A. Gupta, G. Testa
Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Noncontrast pelvic CT imaging can detect severe iliac artery calcifications (SAC) with technical contraindication to transplantation, avoiding morbidity from unnecessary surgical exploration.*Methods: We devised…
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…