Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Outcomes in Deceased Donors with Elevated Bilirubin: A Large Database Analysis
P. J. Altshuler, A. Rios Diaz, O. Shaheen, A. P. Shah, W. R. Maley, A. Frank, J. Glorioso, C. Ramirez, H. Dang, A. S. Bodzin
Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Significant hepatic injury and impairments in biliary excretion manifest serologically in elevated bilirubin levels. Despite a direct linkage between hyperbilirubinemia and hepatobiliary dysfunction, significance…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Non-Self-Advocacy is Associated with Improved Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
A. C. Kale, A. S. Elston, R. D. Reed, V. Kumar, B. Berry, D. Hendricks, A. Carter, B. A. Shelton, M. N. Mustian, H. Qu, P. A. MacLennan, B. J. Orandi, R. M. Cannon, M. J. Hanaway, J. E. Locke
University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Our Living Donor Navigator (LDN) program aims to help potential transplant recipients (PTRs) identify live donors with the help of an advocate. These advocates…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function Predicts High Risk of Allograft Loss Following Living and Deceased Donor Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
M. MacConmara¹, J. Gattineni¹, D. Desai¹, J. Parekh², P. Vagefi¹, C. S. Hwang¹
¹UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ²UC San Diego, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Pediatric kidney recipients receive high quality living and deceased donor kidneys for transplantation, and as such, these kidneys have a low rate of delayed…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Organ Offer Behavioral Research Enhances Transplant Surgeon Training
T. S. Diwan¹, D. Stewart², K. Lindblad², A. Dick³, R. Hirose⁴, L. Ratner⁵
¹Univ of Cincinnati Med Ctr, Cincinnati, OH, ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ³Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ⁴UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Columbia Univ/NY Pres Hosp, New York, NY
*Purpose: Due to the complexities of fielding organ offers, the 2019 ASTS 2nd Year Surgical Fellows Symposium’s agenda included multiple sessions devoted to training on…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Attenuates the Gender Gap in Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates: A Multi-Center Study with 1,240 Patients with Cirrhosis
J. C. Lai¹, D. R. Ganger², M. L. Volk³, J. L. Dodge¹, M. A. Dunn⁴, A. Duarte-Rojo⁵, M. R. Kappus⁶, R. S. Rahimi⁷, D. Ladner², B. Boyarsky⁸, M. McAdams-DeMarco⁸, D. L. Segev⁸, C. E. McCulloch¹, E. Verna⁹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²NW, Chicago, IL, ³Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA, ⁴UPMC, Pittsburgh, CA, ⁵UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Duke, Durham, NC, ⁷Baylor, Dallas, TX, ⁸JHMI, Baltimore, MD, ⁹Columbia, New York, NY
*Purpose: Women LT candidates experience higher rates of waitlist mortality than men. Frailty is a critical determinant of mortality in patients with cirrhosis but it…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease after Liver Transplantation Using Measured GFR
N. R. Mazumder¹, J. Levitsky¹, G. Saracino², G. Klintmalm³, J. Trotter², S. Asrani²
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Transplant Hepatology, Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX, ³Transplant Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Historical rates of ESRD after LT are 8% (1 year) and 18% (5 years) (Ojo NEJM 2003). However, these rates were based older estimates…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Rate of Change in Body Mass Index Prior to Liver Transplantation is Independently Associated with Post-Transplant Survival
N. Mahmud¹, Y. Saiman¹, M. Serper¹, E. Weinberg¹, K. Rothstein¹, D. Goldberg²
¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Patients at the extremes of body mass index (BMI) have poorer outcomes after liver transplantation (LT). Current national guidelines regard BMI ≥40 to be…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Kidney Transplant Evaluation Attendance
C. G. Ford¹, Y. Leyva¹, Y. Zhu², E. J. Croswell³, C. Puttarajappa⁴, M. A. Dew³, M. L. Unruh², Y. Ng², L. Myaskovsky¹
¹Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, ²University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Given that clinic non-attendance is associated with worse health outcomes for patients and increased burden for providers, we examined whether patient worry about harm…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The 1st Year Posttransplant Course Reliably Predicts Kidney Graft Survival up to 15 Years Using a Machine Learning-Based Modeling Approach
W. Gwinner, M. Gietzelt, R. Hanna, A. A. Khalifa, M. Hallensleben, M. Marschollek, H. Haller, J. H. Braesen, I. Scheffner
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
*Purpose: Identification of patients at risk for graft failure can improve individual surveillance and early therapeutic interventions. We used a well-documented patient cohort to establish…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Renal Transplant Recipients with Different Pre-Transplant Cardiovascular Risk
G. Hsu¹, T. M. Sparkes¹, B. N. Reed², S. E. Gale¹, B. R. Ravichandran¹
¹University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Renal transplant patients have higher cardiovascular (CV) risk compared to their peers. Pre-transplant CV risk factors may be amplified post-transplant, but little is known…