2018 American Transplant Congress
Pragmatic Surgical Risk Assessment Criteria in Critically Ill Patients Prior to Liver Transplantation
Liver Transplant Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Futility rules in critically ill patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) are lacking in this era of severe organ shortage of organs. We aim to identify…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcome Implications of Benzodiazepines and Opioid Co-Prescriptions before Kidney Transplantation
Recent studies have identified co-prescription of benzodiazepines and opioids as a risk factor for adverse outcomes in the general population. We previously described associations of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improving Prediction of Post-Transplant Death and Graft Loss with Expanded Clinical Data Collection
US transplant centers are graded for patient and graft survival of their recipients based on comparison to risk-adjusted expectations using elements captured in the national…2018 American Transplant Congress
Association of Tacrolimus Adherence and Discontinuation with Sepsis Risk among Kidney Transplant Recipients
OBJECTIVE: The association between post-transplant tacrolimus exposure and sepsis risk is currently unknown. We examined the associations of tacrolimus adherence and discontinuation with sepsis risk…2018 American Transplant Congress
Obesity is Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality among Living Kidney Donors
Background: Living kidney donor (LKD) demographics have changed, and transplant centers have relaxed selection criteria to include LKDs with obesity. Recently, it has been shown…2018 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Categorization Improve Outcomes and Organ Utilization in Liver Transplant
Background: Liver transplant (LT) varies greatly in technical complexity due to factors such as prior surgery, obesity, and portal vein thrombosis (PVT). This must be…2018 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use after Kidney Transplantation
Opioid use is associated with increased complications, graft loss, and mortality in the kidney transplant (KTX) population. The aim of our study was to identify…2018 American Transplant Congress
Familial Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in Healthy Live Kidney Donors
1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
Kidney donor candidates are rigorously evaluated so that only the lowest risk are cleared for donation; however, it is not standard practice to exclude candidates…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Implications of Impaired Glucose Tolerance after Kidney Transplantation
Background: Post-transplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is highly prevalent after kidney transplantation and associated with significant morbidity. Routine utilization of screening oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT)…2018 American Transplant Congress
High Prevalence of Kidney Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy after ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation: Risk Factors, Rapid Clinical Diagnosis, and Prompt Successful Treatment
BackgroundKidney transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (KTA-TMA) is a multifactorial inflammatory disorder and thrombotic disease of the microvasculature. It is characterized by hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute…
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