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Articles tagged "Surgical complications"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Correlation of Intraoperative Donor Duodenal Segment Swab Cultures with the Subsequent Occurrence of Surgical Site Infections in Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients

    C. M. Rotstein1, M. Alabdulla1, S. Al Rehily1, Y. Natori2, K. Van1, M. Cattral1, T. Reichman1

    1University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Division of ID, University of Miami, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Pancreas transplantation (PT) is commonly employed for the treatment of type I diabetes mellitus. It has been postulated that surgical site infections (SSIs), particularly…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Simultaneous Robotic Kidney Transplantation and Sleeve Gastrectomy versus Transplant Alone for Morbidly Obese Patients with End-Stage Renal Failure: A Prospective Randomized Trial

    K. A. Tulla, P. West-Thielke, P. DiCocco, O. Okoye, K. Bruno, J. Almario Alvarez, M. Spaggiari, I. G. Tzvetanov, E. Benedetti

    University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that simultaneous robotic assisted kidney transplant and robotic assisted sleeve gastrectomy results in fewer surgical complications…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Higher Body Mass Index Before Living Kidney Donation Can Increase Wound Infection after Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomies

    X. Benavides, M. Merzkani, R. T. Rogers, E. K. Tan, S. Thirunavukkarasu, B. H. Smith, A. D. Rule, M. Prieto, J. K. Heimbach, T. Taner, G. K. Chow, P. G. Dean, M. D. Stegall

    Kidney Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: According to the CDC (2015-2016), 71.6% of the adult population in the United States has a BMI equal or higher than 25kg/m2, and the…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Pregnancy in Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney (SPK) Transplant Recipients

    S. Punjala1, B. L. Phillips1, P. Chowdhury1, T. Pile1, K. Harding2, C. J. Callaghan1, C. Nelson-Piercy2, M. Drage1

    1Department of Nephrology, Renal Transplant and Urology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, 2Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: The chance of successful pregnancy is low in women with end stage renal disease. In women with type-1 DM, not only are the fertility…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Perfect Outcome of Ureteral Stenosis after Small Incision Surgical Treatment Under Magnetic Resonance Urography Localization in Kidney Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study

    G. Liu, X. Wang, W. Peng, R. Wang, H. Huang, J. Wu, J. Chen

    Kidney Disease Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    *Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the outcome of ureteral stenosis after treatment with small incision open surgery under Magnetic Resonance Urography (MRU) localization in…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Different Strategies to Decrease Post-Operative Opioid Use Following Living Donor Nephrectomy

    D. Quan1, J. Lazo2, J. Lee3, A. Barnes4, S. Kang5

    1UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 2Pharmaceutical Services, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 3School of Pharmacy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 4Department of Pharmaceutical Services, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, 5Transplant Surgery, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Living donor transplant programs are essential in decreasing the number of kidney wait-list candidates, however, of utmost importance should be ensuring our donors are…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Assessment of Deceased Donor Kidney and Liver Surgical Recovery Error Rates

    R. D. Hasz, S. M. West, H. M. Nathan

    Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: There is no nationally available data related to the incidence of surgical errors in deceased donor organ recoveries or its impact on organ discard…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    To Fix or Not to Fix: Kidney Outcomes Requiring Renal Artery Reconstruction Due to Surgical Damage

    J. Figueiro, R. Vianna, W. De Faria, S. Elizabeth, G. Ciancio, G. Guerra

    Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Deceased donor kidneys damaged surgically during procurement are often discarded. Because of the critical shortage of available kidneys for waitlisted ESRD patients, our center…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Comparing Surgical and Urological Complications Over Time in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation

    A. Mekhaimar, H. Maple, N. Mamode, R. H. Zakri, N. Kessaris

    King's College London/Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: Despite advances in perioperative and post-transplant management over time, complications still occur following deceased donor (DD) kidney transplantation. This study aimed to determine the…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Optimal Recipient Selection and Surgical Complications in Dual Kidney Transplantation

    S. Patel1, S. Chang2, R. Sussman3, R. Plews1, R. Lopez-Soler4, D. Conti1

    1Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, 2Nephrology and Transplantation, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 3Center for Donation and Transplantation, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, 4Renal Transplant Program, Hines VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Kidney allocation has recently been modified to allow enhanced utilization of dual kidney transplants (DKT) to reduce organ discards. This study evaluates surgical complications…
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