Articles tagged "Risk factors"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induced Thrombocytopenia and Bleeding After Kidney Transplantation.
M. Dokus,¹ A. Patel,¹ J. Iuppa,² E. Venniro,³ A. Danzig,¹ J. Cooley,² J. Taylor,³ R. Kashyap,¹ M. Orloff.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; ²Department of Pharmacy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; ³Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
Background: Bleeding is a significant challenge after renal transplantation. Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) induced thrombocytopenia may increase bleeding after kidney transplantation (KTx), but this association has…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Early Readmission After Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto Transplantation.
R. Shahbazov,¹ N. Bashoo,² G. Yoshimatsu,² G. Saracino,² F. Azari,¹ N. Onaca,² P. Kim,² M. Levy.³
¹Charles O.Strikler Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ²Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX; ³Transplant Division, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Introduction: Readmission after Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto Transplantation (TPIAT) is common, but no data is available on reasons for readmission and islet graft function.Aims:…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Air Pollution – An Additional Risk Factor for Developing Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy.
C. Bara, D. Böthig, Y. Scheibner, D. Bobylev, B. Przybylek, A. Haverich.
Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Purpose:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) remains one of the primary causes of death in long-term follow-up after heart transplantation (HTx) and is the most limiting factor…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery and Increased Risk of Death After Listing for Liver Transplantation.
S. Asrani, F. Khan, G. Saracino, G. McKenna, J. Hasse, G. Klintmalm, J. Trotter.
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Background:Prior bariatric surgery in cirrhotics is increasingly common, and the metabolic derangements and altered anatomy from this surgery may impact outcomes. We hypothesize that cirrhotic…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Social Support Does Not Predict Medication Adherence Post-Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
K. Ladin,¹ A. Daniels,¹ R. Bannuru,² M. Osani.²
¹Occupational Therapy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; ²Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; ³Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Background: Although social support is used to determine eligibility, the relationship between social support and nonadherence remains unclear. We examined the predictive value of social…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Candidate Mismatch in Age, Sex, HLA, and Body Size Inform a Calculator for Kidney Graft Survival.
J. Kalbfleisch,¹ V. Ashby,¹ A. Leichtman,² M. Rees,³ P. X.-L. Song,¹ A. Sakhuja,¹ M. Bray,¹ R. Eikstadt,¹ A. Goulding,¹ W. Wang.¹
¹Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ²Arbor Research, Ann Arbor, MI; ³Univ of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
Using Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data, we analyzed 232,705 kidney transplant recipients that received a transplant from 1998-2012. Graft failure rates were estimated using…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Risk Index and Acute Kidney Injury in Liver Transplant Patients.
J. Neal, Y. Sun, J. Erley, J. Shen, C. Sonnenday, P. Sharma, J. Park.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Purpose: Renal risk index (RRI) has been validated in liver transplant (LT) to predict post-transplant ESRD. We examined the clinical utility of RRI as a…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Does Pre-Operative Transarterial Chemoembolization(TACE) Increase the Risk of Early Post-Operative Pancreatitis After Liver Transplantation(LT)?
V. Kirchner, L. Zhang, T. Dunn, E. Finger, M. Hassan, R. Kandaswamy, J. Lake, P. Liu, E. Minja, O. Serrano, A. Pugalenthi, J. Thompson, K. Yadav, W. Payne, T. Pruett, S. Chinnakotla.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Background: Post-TACE pancreatitis in HCC patients is well documented complications. We sought to determine if prior h/o TACE in addition to other risk factors(RF) contributes…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Hematopoietic Cell Transplant and Solid Organ Transplantation: A First Report of the U.S. Experience.
M. Gupta, M. Levine, P. Abt.
Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
The prevalence of patients who receive both a hematopoetic cell(HCT) and solid organ transplantation(SOT) is rising. There have been no large scale studies of HCT…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Age and KDPI Are Potent Predictors of Early Acute Rejection in the Modern Era of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation.
D. Keith, G. Vranic, A. Nishio Lucar.
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
The rate of acute rejection in the first six months after deceased donor (DD) kidney transplant is about 10% in the modern era of immunosuppression.…