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Kidney Transplantation Unit
Kidney Transplantation Unit
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William Kitchens, MD, PhD, FACS, FAST
Learning Objectives
1) Discuss the causes of long-term allograft failure
2) Investigate the pathophysiologic mechanisms of kidney allograft chronic fibrosis
3) Identify the different kinds of chronic kidney rejection (including chronic active T-cell mediated rejection and chronic active antibody-mediated rejection), and how they are diagnosed
4) Evaluate different treatment modalities of chronic kidney rejectionAuthor: William Kitchens, MD, PhD, FACS, FAST
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Medical Complications of Transplantation Unit
Medical Complications of Transplantation Unit
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Kevin Gregg, MD
Learning Objectives:
1. Demonstrate ability to interpret hepatitis B virus serologies and molecular testing to inform post-transplant clinical care
2. Understand the risks of hepatitis B virus transmission from seropositive donors and strategies for prevention of disease transmission
3. Understand the preventive and treatment strategies for hepatitis B infection in liver transplant recipients with known infectionAuthor: Kevin Gregg, MD
Co-Author: Zoe Raglow, MD
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Resident Curriculum Section 2: Organ Procurement
Unit Objectives
I. Outline the basic principles of liver transplantation, donor and recipient selection and donor allocation.
II. Describe the types of immunosuppressive therapy utilized in liver transplantation.
III. List the different disease processes which may require liver transplantation; understand the management of complications of liver disease including end stage liver disease and the care of patients with fulminant hepatic failure.
IV. Describe the workup needed to diagnose liver transplant rejection.
V. Describe the operative steps necessary involved in performing liver allograft recovery from deceased donors and deceased donor liver transplant.
VI. Diagnose and implement treatment approaches for both short and long term medical and surgical complications following liver transplantation-
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Richa Jain, MD
Richa Jain, MD
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Recording of December 18 webinar on NSQIP Transplant featuring Ryutaro Hirose, MD
Speaker: Ryutaro Hirose, MD
Discover the potential of NSQIP Transplant to improve your center's performance by joining this enlightening webinar featuring speaker Ryutaro Hirose, MD. You have an exclusive opportunity to explore the benefits of this innovative tool, discuss how you can use NSQIP Transplant to drive quality improvement at your center, and get your questions answered!
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Title: From the Author’s Desk: MELD 3.0, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Updated for the Modern Era Speakers: W. Ray Kim, MD and James Pomposelli MD, PhD, FACS
Title: From the Author’s Desk: MELD 3.0, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Updated for the Modern Era
Speakers: W. Ray Kim, MD and James Pomposelli, MD, PhD, FACS
Moderators: Kris Croome, MD and Mustafa Nazzal, MD
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Mark Hobeika, MD
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the growth of donation after circulatory death in the U.S. and increasing opportunities for extra-renal organ utilization.
2. Explain the principles of organ donation after circulatory death.
3. Describe the recovery factors impacting the outcomes of organs recovered from donation after circulatory death donors
Author: Mark Hobeika, MD
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Resident Curriculum Section 2: Organ Procurement
Unit Objectives
I. Understand the moral, ethical and legal issues and steps involved in determining brain death.
II. Understand the moral, ethical and legal issues and steps involved in live organ donation.
III. Describe the basic assessment of the medical, laboratory, and anatomic characteristics of a potential organ donor (live or deceased), the quality of a donor organ, and its suitability for a given recipient.
IV. Outline in detail the procedure to safely recover abdominal organs from deceased donors, including those for donation after cardiac death (DCD).
V. Understand the recovery processes for living donor organs and describe the steps necessary to perform relevant organ specific recovery (liver, kidney, or pancreas).
VI. Outline the basic principles and limits of organ preservation and be familiar with organ preservation techniques, including pulsatile perfusion.-
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