Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2022 American Transplant Congress
The High Acuity Index: A Posttransplant Prediction Score for High-MELD Patients
C. R. Christmann¹, A. Anand¹, G. Handing¹, A. Rana²
¹School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Patients with a very high Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score are at significant short-term risk for death without liver transplantation. While many…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) of Mycophenolate (MCP) Prescriptions in Post Kidney Transplant (KT) Recipients as a Predictor of Clinical Outcomes
K. Sandlin¹, T. Sam¹, N. Wilson¹, A. Yango², B. Fischbach³, A. Dao¹
¹Pharmacy, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Baylor All Saints Medical Center, Dallas Nephrology Associates, Fort Worth, TX, ³Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas Nephrology Associates, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Nonadherence to medications following KT is a risk factor for adverse outcomes. PDC is an objective measure of adherence obtained through retail prescription records…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Gender Imbalance in Kidney Transplantation in Japan
Y. Nakagawa¹, M. Mieno², H. Date³, H. Sasaki³, Y. Takada⁴, T. Ito³, Y. Tanaka³, S. Horie⁴, D. Ogasa⁴
¹Department of Urology, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, ³The Japan Society for Transplantation Gender Equality Committee, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Department of Urology,, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Japan has a chronic shortage of donors. Therefore, kidney transplantation between elderly couples has increased. We examined how differences in gender and donor age…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Place Based Risk for Early Rejection in Lung Transplant
W. M. Tsuang¹, X. Wang², J. Curtis³
¹Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Within 5 years after lung transplant (LT), half of recipients have lost 20% or more of lung function. Despite a consistent link between social…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Sarcopenia Using L3 and Thigh Skeletal Muscle Index on Clinical Outcomes in Liver Transplantation Recipient
M. Lim, J. Kim
Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Cener, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Sarcopenia is defined as loss of muscle mass and function. It has been reported as a significant risk factor for outcome after Liver transplantation…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Increased Risk for Allograft Loss in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients After Biopsy for Chronic Allograft Dysfunction
C. R. Dorr¹, B. Wu², B. Guo², W. Guan², D. Schladt¹, S. Elmer¹, G. Crary³, G. Onyeaghala¹, W. Oetting², G. Agarwal⁴, R. B. Mannon⁵, P. Jacobson², A. Matas², A. Israni³
¹Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: Chronic allograft dysfunction (CGD) is the first sign of a “troubled kidney”. CGD was defined as >25% increase in serum creatinine relative to a…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Impaired Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain: Clinical Presentation and Outcomes in Liver Transplantation Recipients without Arrhythmia or Structural Heart Disease
M. B. Hammami, J. Grossman, P. Xue, H. Allaham, K. Eagan, S. Gottlieb, C. Hong, L. Wang, C. Bhati, D. Maluf, K. Shetty, N. Urrunaga
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Assess the prevalence and characteristics of patients without arrhythmia or structural heart disease (SHD) but with impaired pre-transplant left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS)…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Does Dialysis Modality or Duration Influence Outcomes in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Recipients?
M. Garner¹, B. Sharda², A. Farney³, J. Rogers², G. Orlando³, C. Jay⁴, A. Reeves-Daniel⁵, A. Mena-Gutierrez³, N. Sakhovskaya³, R. Stratta⁶
¹Transplant Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ²Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, ³Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁵Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, ⁶Wake Forest Univ, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: The influence of dialysis modality and duration on outcomes following simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPKT) remains uncertain. The study purpose was to review our single…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Meld Score <31 Predicts Spontaneous Recovery in Patients Listed for Liver Transplantation for Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis: A UNOS Database Study
Y. Bekki, G. Im, T. Schiano, S. Florman
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, RMTI, New York, NY
*Purpose: Alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) is the fastest growing indication for liver transplantation (LT) in the U.S. While spontaneous recovery (SR) can occur in patients with…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Single Kidney Transplantation Using Pediatric Donor Kidneys: Satisfactory Outcomes but Specific Attentions Needed
M. Huang, W. Wu, X. Su, J. Li, C. Wu, H. Zhang, Q. Fu, J. Li, S. Wu, Y. Chen, Q. Zhang, L. Liu, C. Wang
The First Affiliated Hospital Of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: Utilization of pediatric donor in single kidney transplantation (SKT) are popular and can greatly expand the scarce donor pool, whereas potential risk factors remain…