Articles tagged "Survival"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Justified at Any Meld Score?
H. Oden-Brunson, E. Godfrey, H. Flores, A. Rana
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Assessing the survival benefit of transplantation in patients with chronic liver failure is critical in guiding the decision-making process for liver allocation. Current protocols…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Survival After Heart Transplant vs. Simultaneous Heart Kidney Transplant by Degrees of Renal Dysfunction at Engraftment in the United States: A Multivariable Analysis
S. M. Riad¹, M. Aljuhani¹, S. Jackson², T. Alexy¹, H. Wadie³, C. Martin¹, R. Kandaswamy⁴
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Eden Prairie, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁴Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: There has been a rising trend for utilizing kidneys in heart transplant candidates with different renal dysfunction degrees without established criteria to address this…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Days of Delayed Graft Function and Its Impact on Graft Outcomes in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant
P. Budhiraja¹, R. J. Butterfield², S. S. Misra¹, K. S. Reddy³, L. Kodali¹, H. A. Khamash¹, S. Nair¹, G. K. Mour¹, H. A. Chakkera¹, C. C. Jadlowiec³, H. Janna¹, R. L. Heilman¹
¹Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ²Department of Statistics, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ³Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: There has been controversy regarding impact of delayed graft function (DGF) on risk of acute rejection and graft survival. This is likely due to…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Survival Adult Liver Transplantation: Experience in a Latinoamerican High Complexity Center. 15 Years with More Than 500 Transplants
C. A. Murcia, N. Ramirez, M. E. Ramos, C. Benavides, J. Rivera, G. Mejia
Transplant Unit, Fundación Cardioinfantil, Bogotá, Colombia
*Purpose: Liver disease is one of the main causes of chronic disease morbidity and mortality in the world and liver transplantation is the only curative…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Graft Quality on Patient Survival in Sick Patients
G. Handing¹, S. Keeling¹, C. Christmann¹, N. Galvan², C. O’Mahony², J. Goss², R. Cotton², A. Rana²
¹School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplant, Houston, TX
*Purpose: It is widely accepted in the literature that patients who have a Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) Score greater than 30 incur…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Proxies of Ischemia Time Do Not Predict 1-Year Posttransplant Survival
M. Skeans¹, A. Wey¹, E. Lease², C. Lehr³, J. Alcorn⁴, R. Goff⁴, D. Stewart⁴, M. Valapour³
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: A barrier to broader distribution of donor organs is a concern that increased donor-to-recipient (DtR) distances could increase ischemia times and compromise posttransplant (PT)…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Between Donors After Controlled Circulatory Death and Brain Death Donors in Catalonia, Spain
J. Juega¹, M. Pérez-Sáez², J. Comas³, A. Zapatero⁴, M. Crespo², J. Tort³, R. Lauzurica¹, J. Pascual²
¹Nephrology, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ³Departament de Salut, Organització Catalana de Trasplantaments (OCATT), Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Intensive care unit, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: The number of kidney transplants (KT) from controlled cardiac death donors (cDCD) has exponentially increased in Spain during the last years. Results from cDCD…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Improved Patient Survival in DCD Liver Transplantation
O. Bushara¹, J. Alhalel¹, H. Azad¹, T. Cerri², S. Zafer², J. C. Caicedo¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Rosalind Franklin Medical School, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: We aim to investigate longitudinal outcomes in DCD liver transplantation over a 10-year period and elucidate trends in patient survival, biliary complication rates, and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism within the FCGR3A 158 F/V Gene is Associated with Decreased Survival of Renal Allografts with Chronic Active Antibody-Mediated Rejection
N. H. Litjens, A. M. Peeters, J. A. Kal-van Gestel, M. Klepper, M. G. Betjes
Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Long-term allograft survival has shown little improvement over the last decades. An important factor compromising long-term allograft survival in kidney transplantation is chronic active…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Combined Warm and Cold Ischemia Times on Post Transplant Outcomes
M. E. Foley¹, A. J. Vinson², K. K. Tennankore²
¹Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Division of Nephrology, Medicine, Dalhousie University/ Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: Both prolonged warm ischemia time (WIT) and cold ischemia time (CIT) have been associated with an increased risk of graft failure following kidney transplantation,…