2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Quality Dramatically Influences Patient and Death Censored Graft Survival in SLK Recipients.
Department of Transplant Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Introduction: Renal grafts used in simultaneous kidney liver (SLK) transplants are allocated on “center based” arbitrary clinical criteria without entering the kidney allocation algorithm. The…2017 American Transplant Congress
No Gains in Long-Term Survival Following Liver Transplantation Over the Past Three Decades.
1Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; 2Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
It is widely reported that outcomes have steadily improved in liver transplantation over the past 3 decades. The national benchmark of 1-year survival is now…2017 American Transplant Congress
Complications Requiring Reoperation After Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Context: Reoperative complications after liver transplantation have been shown to decrease patient and graft survival in adults; this effect, however, has not been studied in…2017 American Transplant Congress
WHO Group II Pulmonary Hypertension Is Associated with Decreased Survival in Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation.
Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
End stage liver disease (ESLD) patients with cirrhotic cardiomyopathy often have WHO Group II pulmonary hypertension (PH), characterized by pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) >15…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Benefits of Pancreas After Kidney (PAK) Transplantation.
Background: PAK transplantation has been perceived as inferior to Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney (SPK) transplantation with respect to patient and pancreas (PA) allograft survival. However,…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of a B-Cell Targeting Agent on Antibody Mediated Rejection and Graft' Survival in Liver Transplantation with Preformed DSAs.
Introduction The negative impact of preformed anti-HLA donor specific antibodies (DSAs) in liver transplantation is clearly established. However, the potential interest of a B-cell depleting…2017 American Transplant Congress
Third Liver Transplantation, Outcomes, and the Impact of Previous Graft Survival.
Introduction: Retransplantation with a third liver allograft is controversial with significant technical and medical challenges. National outcomes have not been described. We hypothesize that prior…2017 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of Kidney and/or Pancreas Transplantation for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes in the United States.
Study Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the survival benefit of pancreas and/or kidney transplants as reported over a 28-year time period…2017 American Transplant Congress
Is the Current Heart Allocation System Just and Fair for Blood Type O Recipients? – A Propensity-Matched Analysis of 34353 Patients in the UNOS Registry.
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
Purpose: There is a known disparity between the waiting time on heart transplant (HTx) between blood type O and non-O recipients. This difference is mainly…2017 American Transplant Congress
Glucocorticoid Receptor – Relaxin Signaling in Liver Transplant Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (IRI): From Bench-to-Bedside.
Background: Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) serves as a receptor for relaxin (RLX), a pregnancy hormone, with novel vasoactive and tissue remodeling properties. A phase III clinical…
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