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Articles tagged "Survival"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Living and Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Recipients According to the MELD Score

    J. Lee, J. Lee, D. Joo, D. Han, M. Ju, J. Choi, S. Kim, M. Kim.

    Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

    BackgroundLiving donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has developed as an alternative to decease donor liver transplantation (DDLT) to overcome the critical shortage of deceased organ donations.…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Long-term Patient and Graft Survival After Kidney Transplantation in Recipients With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

    N.-Y. Heo, P. Udompap, A. Mannalithara, W. Kim.

    Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford.

    Background: The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among kidney transplant (KTx) recipients is higher than that in the general population. With the advent…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of High-Risk Lung Donors on the Survival of Lung Recipients With Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis

    P. Sanchez,1 M. Mulligan,1 C. Evans,1 I. Timofte,2 J. Kim,2 K. Rajagopal,1 A. Iacono,2 J. Gammie,1 R. Pierson III,1 B. Griffith,1 S. Pham.1

    1Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

    Matching donors and recipients is largely based on experience. With the implementation of the LAS, IPF candidates have the highest provability of being transplanted after…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Morphometric Age as a Predictor of Survival Following Kidney Transplantation

    M. Terjimanian,1 D. Cron,1 D. Cote,2 J. Augustine,2 K. Noon,2 S. Wang,1 M. Englesbe,1 K. Woodside.2

    1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

    INTRODUCTION: Better measures of pre-operative risk stratification are needed in kidney transplantation. Analytic morphomics, which utilizes pre-operative imaging, has been shown to objectively assess mortality…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluating Outcomes in Multi-Organ Liver Transplant Recipients

    J. Snyder,1 N. Salkowski,1 D. Zaun,1 B. Thompson,1 J. Zeglin,1 D. Schladt,1 J. Lake,2 W. Kim,3 A. Israni,1 B. Kasiske.1

    1SRTR, MMRF, Minneapolis, MN; 2University of MN, Minneapolis, MN; 3Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

    Historically, transplant (Tx) program evaluations performed by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) in the US have included only single-organ Txs, except for simultaneous…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Hemodynamic Profile Presages Graft Survival in Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Transplantation

    M. Ertreo, C. Desai, R. Girlanda, T. Frias, T. Fishbein.

    Transplant Institute, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.

    IntroductionDonation after cardiac death (DCD) grafts are prone to periods of prolonged hypoxemia and hypotension prior to donor expiration, leading to an increased complication rate,…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Activated T Regulatory Cells Escape Death by Increasing Cytoplasmic Serine Protease Inhibitor 6 (SPI6)

    A. Radwan, M. Uehara, P. Lukyanchykov, L. Riella, A. Chandraker, R. Abdi, J. Azzi.

    Renal/ Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

    Regulatory T cells (Tregs) can employ a granzyme B (GrB)-dependent mechanism to mediate suppression of effector cells by inducing their apoptosis. In this study we…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Acute Rejection on Liver Transplant Survival in the New Millennium

    J. Levitsky,1 S. Forney,2 B. Gillespie,3 R. Merion,2,3 A. Lok,3 G. Levy,4 L. Kulik,1 M. Abecassis,1 A. Shaked.5

    1Northwestern U, Chicago, IL; 2Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI; 3U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 4U Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 5U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Background: Based on pre-2000 data, acute rejection (AR) has long been considered clinically less significant in liver transplant (LT) vs. other organ recipients (Charlton et…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Establishment of a Novel Model for Hypothermic Machine Perfusion In Vivo in Rabbits

    Z. Zhong,1 Z. Liu,1 R. Wang,1 Z. Fu,2 Y. Zhang,2 Q. Hu,1 K. Jin,1 D. Ko,3 Y. Wang,1 Q. Ye.1,2

    1Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases of Wuhan University, Transplant Center of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Laboratory of Medical Technology on Transplantation, Wuhan, Hubei, China; 2The 3rd Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Research Center of National Health Ministry on Transplantation Medicine Engineering and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China; 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Urology, Boston, MA.

    Background: Hypothermic machine perfusion (MP) could improve outcome after transplantation of DCD kidneys, but protective mechanisms of MP remain largely unknown. Therefore, this study aims…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Does BMI Affect Survival in Cadaveric Liver Transplantation for Benign Conditions?

    S. Ayloo, S. Hurton, M. Cwinn, R. Kavanagh, M. Molinari.

    Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.

    Obesity is a relative contraindication to liver transplantation (LT). Aim of this study was to analyze morbidity, mortality, long-term survival of cadaveric LTs stratified by…
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