Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Increased Mortality After Kidney Transplantation in Mildly Frail Recipients: Need for Pretransplant Intervention
J. Pascual Santos¹, C. Arias-Cabrales¹, D. Redondo-Pachón¹, C. Burballa¹, A. Buxeda¹, A. Bach¹, A. Faura¹, E. Marco², L. Rodríguez-Mañas³, M. Crespo¹, M. J. Pérez-Sáez¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ²Rehabilitation, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ³Geriatrics, Hospital del Getafe, Getafe, Spain
*Purpose: Frailty is associated with a higher rate of complications and mortality after kidney transplantation (KT). Physical Frailty Phenotype (PFP) is the most used frailty…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Outcomes and Equity (LOEq) Index: Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health and Waitlist Disparities for Adult Liver Transplantation
K. Zhou, L. S. Kuo, L. K. Thompson, J. L. Dodge, M. G. Cockburn, N. Terrault
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Impact of neighborhood-level social determinants of health (SDOH) among adult liver transplant (LT) candidates is largely unknown. We constructed a novel index (LOEq) to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Recipient Gender and Race: Impact on Clinical Outcomes
M. M. French¹, R. Mangus¹, R. Holmes¹, A. Krause¹, J. Sumner¹, C. Kubal², B. Ekser³, P. Mihaylov⁴, J. Fridell⁵, A. Lutz⁶
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Department of Surgery, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, ³Surgery, Indiana University - Transplant Surgery, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Department of Surgery, Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁵Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁶Indiana University, Fishers, IN
*Purpose: Background. Health disparities are present in transplantation. This is a retrospective review of liver transplant (LT) recipients determining the impact of race/gender on early…
2022 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Frailty Assessment to Determine Fitness for Renal Transplant in a Veteran Dialysis Patient Population
M. Samra¹, A. Wadhwa¹, T. Markossian², R. Lopez-Soler³
¹Medicine, Edward Hine Jr., VA Medical Center, Hines, IL, ²Edward Hine Jr., VA Medical Center, Hines, IL, ³Surgery, Edward Hines VA Jr.,VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Frailty is a medical syndrome characterized by reduced physiologic function and strength. It is associated with an increased risk of mortality, hospital readmission and…
2022 American Transplant Congress
ROImax Score: A Novel Predictor for Adherent Perinephric Fat in Healthy Donor for Transplantation Underwent Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
T. Noda, Y. Miyauchi, K. Nishimura, T. Fukumoto, N. Miura, T. Kikugawa, T. Saika
Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon City, Japan
*Purpose: MAP (Mayo adhesive probability) score have been known as a predictor of adherent perinephric fat (APF) in partial nephrectomy. This study is aimed to…
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…