Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Risk Factors for Progression of Low Level CMV Viremia in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
Y. Natori, A. Humar, A. Alghamdi, D. Kumar.
Multi Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Low level CMV viremia is common, and may either progress to higher viral loads that require therapy, or may spontaneously resolve. The clinical predictors…
2018 American Transplant Congress
De Novo DSA against Third Party Extension Vessels Used in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
N. Garg, T. Ellis, R. Redfield, S. Parajuli, B. Astor, A. Djamali, D. Mandelbrot.
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Third party ABO-compatible vessel allografts (VA) are sometimes used as extension vessels for kidney and pancreas transplants (TX). The frequency and implications of de novo…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use after Liver Transplantation
J. Fleming, D. Taber, B. O'Brien, N. Patel, N. Pilch, R. Gilbert, L. Wilson, Z. Elmaasarani, S. Ball, P. Mauldin, P. Baliga.
MUSC, Charleston, SC.
Opioid use is associated with increased readmissions and mortality in the liver transplant (OLTx) population. The aim of our study was to identify risk factors…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Preoperative CT to Guide Perioperative Management for Kidney Transplantation
E. Werlin,¹ J. Walker,² J. Freise,¹ P. Stock,¹ J. Hiramoto.²
¹Department of Transplant Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Background: CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis (CT A/P) are performed for pre-transplant (tx) evaluation in patients (pts) at high risk for post-operative cardiovascular…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Development of an Expert Consensus Guideline for Skin Cancer Screening in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
L. Crow,¹ S. Arron,¹ C. Chung,² A. Jambusaria-Pahlajani,³ S. Lowenstein,¹ On behalf of the Transplant Skin Cancer Network.
¹Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ²Dermatology, Drexel Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; ³Dermatology, Baylor, Scott & White Health, Round Rock, TX.
Importance Skin cancer is the most common malignancy affecting solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR). Transplant recipients have a significantly increased risk for developing both melanoma…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Biliary pH, Bicarbonate and Glucose Are Suitable Biomarkers of Bile Duct Viability during Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Human Donor Livers
A. Matton,^1,2 Y. de Vries,^1,2 L. Burlage,^1,2 R. van Rijn,^1,2 A. Gouw,³ V. de Meijer,¹ T. Lisman,² R. Porte.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Section Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery & Liver Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Surgical Research Laboratory, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ³Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Background: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) is rapidly making its way into the clinic and can be used for viability assessment of human donor livers prior…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Solid Organ Transplantation and Data Mining: Risk Factors for Invasive Fungal Disease in Heart Transplant Recipients
N. Barros, D. Xie, C. Yek, T. Liu, X. Li, B. Adams-Huet, J. Martinez, S. Garg, J. Grodin, R. Morelend, A. Amin, F. Aras, J. Thibodeau, P. Mammen, M. Peltz, M. Drazner, W. Ring, R. Haley, R. La Hoz.
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX.
We created a database of solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients using innovative data mining tools. This study describing the epidemiology of invasive fungal disease (IFD)…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Liver Donor Follow-Up: Fewer Than Half of Centers Meet Follow-Up Requirements in the US
A. Thomas, C. Holscher, A. Shaffer, J. Garonzik-Wang, A. Massie, D. Segev, M. Henderson.
JHU, Baltimore.
OPTN/UNOS began requiring 1-year living donor follow-up (LDF) for living liver donors (LLDs) in 2014. Compliance with a similar policy for living kidney donors was…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Increased BMI is a Predictor of Early Post-Transplant Cardiac Events and Mortality
A. Mahgoub, S. Jackson, J. Lake, N. Lim.
Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Transplant Information Services/ISR2, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN.
Background: Cardiac events (CVE) remain a significant source of morbidity in the early post-transplant(post-tx) period despite extensive evaluation prior to liver transplant(LT). It is important…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Measles and Varicella Vaccination Status and Evidence of Immunity during Solid Organ Pre-Transplantation Evaluation
H. Daniels, C. Saracusa, S. Worley, B. Gonzalez.
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Ensuring complete vaccination is important during a pre-transplant evaluation (PTE), especially for live viral vaccines which are generally contraindicated after transplant. After one dose…