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Articles tagged "Risk factors"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Living Kidney Transplant: The Influence of Intraoperative Hemodynamics on Delayed Graft Function.

    R. Schutt,1 J. Case,1 B. Barrick,1 A. Toll,2 C. Marsh.1

    1Scripps Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation, Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA; 2Research Department and Analytics, UNOS, Richmond, VA

    Despite advantages of living donor kidneys, intraoperative insults may subject these kidneys to poor outcomes. Therefore, we investigated whether intraoperative fluid volumes and hemodynamics in…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension: An Iatrogenic Complication of Successful Pancreas Transplantation?

    S. Kuten,1 E. Simpson,1 A. Gaber,1 D. Nguyen,1 E. Graviss,1 S. Patel,2 R. Knight.1

    1Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 2Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Cary, NC

    Abrupt improvement in glycemic control is known to cause treatment-induced neuoropathies in poorly-controlled diabetes (DM).1 Similarly, neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a well-known complication of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Survival Outcomes from DCD Transplant Are Comparable to DBD Transplant from Kidneys Procured from Donors > 50 Years of Age. A UNOS/OPTN Propensity Score Matched Pair Analysis.

    H. Sharma, D. Mikhail, J. Chen, B. Al-Harbi, P. Luke, A. Sener.

    Multi-Organ Transplant Unit, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada

    Background:Caution is guarded in accepting offers from old donors due to risk of poor graft function. We aim to present the factors significantly determining the…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Obesity Predicts New-Onset Diabetes After Live Kidney Donation.

    K. Lentine,1 A. Naik,2 N. Lam,3 M. Schnitzler,1,6 H. Xiao,1 D. Axelrod,4 G. Hess,5 B. Kasiske,6 A. Garg,7 S. Gustafson,6 D. Brennan,8 D. Segev.9,6

    1St. Louis Univ, St. Louis; 2U Michigan, Ann Arbor; 3U Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 4E Carolina Univ, Greenville; 5Symphony Health, Philadelphia; 6Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; 7Western Univ, London, Canada; 8Washington Univ, St. Louis; 9Johns Hopkins, Baltimore

    End-stage renal disease is uncommon in living kidney donors (LKD), but recent data suggest that most kidney failure developing late after donation is due to…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Lipid Abnormalities and Cardiovascular Events After Early Conversion to Everolimus in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Pretransplant Diabetes: 24-Month Analysis from Elevate Study.

    M. van der Giet,1 J. de Fijter,1 F. Oppenheimer,1 G. Russ,1 P. Lopez,2 G. Bader,2 J. Cruzado,1 H. Holdaas.1

    1ELEVATE Study Group, Berlin, Germany; 2Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

    PURPOSE: Pretransplant (preTx) diabetes is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) events, and posttransplant (post-Tx) hyperlipidemia further increases CV risk. To analyze the influence…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Training for Transplant: Frailty Assessment and Optimization in Kidney Transplant Candidates.

    M. Mrdutt, D. Doherty, S. Tanner, J. Lappin.

    Surgery, Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, TX

    Purpose: To design and implement a frailty assessment and optimization program addressing potential modifiable risk factors that would ordinarily disqualify patients from kidney and/or pancreas…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Identifying Independent Risk Factors for Graft Loss After Primary Liver Transplantation: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis.

    J. Gwiasda, H. Schrem, A. Kaltenborn.

    Core Facility Quality Management Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

    This study aims to identify independent risk factors for graft loss after primary liver transplantation beyond the occurrence of hepatic artery thrombosis. Graft loss was…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes and Risk Factors for Graft Loss: Lessons Learned from More Than 1,056 Pediatric Kidney tx at a Single Center.

    S. Chinnakotla, P. Verghese, B. Chavers, V. Kirchner, J. Najarian.

    U of M, M

    Aim:To study outcomes and risk factors for graft loss in > 1056 pediatric renal tx.Methods:We studied outcomes by immunosuppression era: I) 1963-83 (ALG, AZA and…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Importance of Acquisition of Carbapenemase (KPC)-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Experience.

    S. Han,1 K. Lee,1 K.-A. Lee,1 H. Paik,2 J. Lee,2 M. Kim,3 D. Joo,3 J. Choi,3 S. Kim,3 Y. Kim.3

    1Divison of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3Department of Transplantation Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Background: Among multi-drug resistant bacteria, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is recently spreading in several countries. Carbapenemase-producing (CP) Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) has great clinical importance because it could…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Analysis of Patients with Proven Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Liver Transplant.

    J. Balogh, K. Lunsford, D. Nguyen, E. Gravis, O. Cercio, C. Mobley, A. Saharia, S. Gordon Burroughs, A. Gaber, R. Ghobrial.

    Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

    ObjectivesCoronary artery disease is increasing common in liver transplant (LT) candidates due to the aging population. We sought to longitudinally evaluate of outcomes of LT…
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