Articles tagged "Surgical complications"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Following Hysterectomy in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
S. DiBrito, I. Olorundare, C. Haugen, C. Holscher, L. Kucirka, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang.
Surgery, JHU, Baltimore
Nearly 1/3 of American women, including kidney transplant recipients (KTR), undergo hysterectomy in their lifetime, making it one of the most common female-specific surgeries performed.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Initial Experince with Total Pancreatectomy-Islet Auto-Transplantation (TP-IAT) for Chronic Pancreatitis at the University of Louisville.
M. Hughes,¹ E. Davis,¹ S. Mokshagundam,² W. Tucker,¹ G. Logananthan,¹ S. Williams,³ B. Appakalai.¹
¹Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; ²Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; ³Physiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) represents a highly significant healthcare challenge in Kentucky. To address this need, we created a TP-IAT program to cure patients of this…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Following Colectomy in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
S. DiBrito, Y. Alimi, C. Holscher, I. Olorundare, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang.
Surgery, JHU, Baltimore
Kidney transplant recipients (KTR), like the general population, often require surgical procedures for non-transplant related issues. Given the need for lifelong immunosuppression and the physiologic…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplantation After Combined Split Liver Transplantation and Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Case Report.
R. Horneland,¹ S. Guvåg,¹ O. Korsgren,² E. Aandahl.¹
¹Oslo Univ. Hospital, Oslo, Norway; ²Rudbeck Laboratory Uppsala Univ. Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
IntroductionLiver cirrhosis (LC) and common bile duct (CBD) malignancy often require combined liver transplant (LT) and pancreatectomy (PE). Total pancreatectomy (TP) often results in unstable…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Emergency Department Utilization Among Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States.
B. Lovasik, R. Zhang, J. Schrager, S. Pastan, A. Adams, R. Patzer.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Background:Single center studies suggest that kidney transplant (KTx) recipients have a high rate of emergency department (ED) utilization, and ED visits are associated with graft…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Analysis of Four Surgical Techniques in More Than 700 Pancreas Transplantes in a Single Center.
M. Perosa, J. Branez, L. Mota, B. Zeballos, H. Noujaim, L. Ianhez, D. Machado, L. Alvim, M. Paredes, T. Genzini.
Organ Transplantation, Bandeirantes Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil
There are several operative techniques in pancreas transplantation (PT) and controversy over the superiority of some of them. This study presents experience with 4 different…
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Retrospective Analysis of Multiple Hemodialysis Access Modalities.
V. Bowers,¹ H. Pearson,¹ J. Huang,¹ J. Leone,¹ A. Tanious,¹ K. Dawley,¹ E. Rogers,¹ V. Camba,² C. Albertson,² D. Lahiff,² T. Rashid,² J. Buggs.¹
¹Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; ²University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
The use of native arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) for hemodialysis (HD) is the gold standard, however, for many patients, this is not an option. We hypothesize…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Transplantation to the Extraperitoneal Cavity in Children Weighing Less Than 15 kg Can Be Performed Safely.
K. Hata,¹ M. Okumi,¹ K. Ishizuka,² K. Unagami,³ T. Hirai,¹ T. Shimizu,¹ K. Omoto,¹ H. Ishida,¹ M. Hattori,² K. Tanabe.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Pediatric Nephrology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ³Nephrology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Pediatric kidney transplantation is associated with various surgical complications due to the complexity of technique and often fragile condition of end-stage renal…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Following Cholecystectomy in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
S. DiBrito, C. Holscher, I. Olorundare, C. Haugen, Y. Alimi, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang.
JHU, Baltimore
Cholecystectomy is one of the most common general surgical procedures. Given the need for lifelong immunosuppression and the physiologic impact of years of renal replacement,…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Inferior 10-Year Graft and Patient Survival After End-to-Side Reconstruction for Two Renal Arteries in Living Donor Renal Transplantation.
S. Yamanaga,^1,2,3 A. Posselt,¹ C. Freise,¹ C. Niemann,¹ A. Rosario,¹ D. Fernandez,¹ T. Kobayashi,³ A. Ahearn,⁴ M. Tavakol,¹ S.-M. Kang.¹
¹Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²Department of General Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan; ³Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan; ⁴Department of Transplant Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Purpose: Living donor kidneys with two arteries can be revascularized using various techniques depending on anatomy and surgeon preference. We hypothesized that the revascularization technique…