Articles tagged "Risk factors"

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…
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…