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Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program
Pancreas transplant rates, despite improving outcomes, have decreased over the past two decades. This is due, in part, to ageing, increasingly co-morbid pancreas transplant candidates. There is a paucity of published data regarding coronary artery disease (CAD) in this population. To inform peri-ope...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31627355 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mps2040082 |
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author | St. Michel, David Donnelly, Tracy Jackson, Towanda Taylor, Bradley Barth, Rolf N. Bromberg, Jonathan S. Scalea, Joseph R. |
author_facet | St. Michel, David Donnelly, Tracy Jackson, Towanda Taylor, Bradley Barth, Rolf N. Bromberg, Jonathan S. Scalea, Joseph R. |
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description | Pancreas transplant rates, despite improving outcomes, have decreased over the past two decades. This is due, in part, to ageing, increasingly co-morbid pancreas transplant candidates. There is a paucity of published data regarding coronary artery disease (CAD) in this population. To inform peri-operative management strategies, we sought to understand the frequency of CAD among recipients of pancreas transplants at our center. Informed by these data, we sought to develop a standard protocol for evaluation. A retrospective review of pancreas transplants (solitary pancreas and simultaneous pancreas-kidney) was undertaken at the University of Maryland. Transplant outcomes and frequency of cardiac disease were analyzed. Current data were compared with historic controls. Over the study period, 59 patients underwent pancreas transplantation. Coronary architecture was assessed in 38 patients (64.4%). Discrete evidence of CAD was present in 28 of 39 patients (71.7%). All pancreas candidates (n = 21) who underwent left heart catheterization (LHC) demonstrated CAD (100%). No patients experienced myocardial infarction (MI) and no deaths resulted from cardiac disease in the early post-transplant period. Pancreas transplant candidates are at high risk for CAD. At a center in which pancreas transplant rates are increasing, a rigorous cardiac work up revealed that 71.7% of assessed recipients had CAD. Although asymptomatic, 6.8% required coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). Despite increasing age and co-morbid status, pancreas transplant recipients can enjoy excellent results if protocolized preoperative testing is used. |
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spelling | pubmed-69606082020-01-23 Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program St. Michel, David Donnelly, Tracy Jackson, Towanda Taylor, Bradley Barth, Rolf N. Bromberg, Jonathan S. Scalea, Joseph R. Methods Protoc Article Pancreas transplant rates, despite improving outcomes, have decreased over the past two decades. This is due, in part, to ageing, increasingly co-morbid pancreas transplant candidates. There is a paucity of published data regarding coronary artery disease (CAD) in this population. To inform peri-operative management strategies, we sought to understand the frequency of CAD among recipients of pancreas transplants at our center. Informed by these data, we sought to develop a standard protocol for evaluation. A retrospective review of pancreas transplants (solitary pancreas and simultaneous pancreas-kidney) was undertaken at the University of Maryland. Transplant outcomes and frequency of cardiac disease were analyzed. Current data were compared with historic controls. Over the study period, 59 patients underwent pancreas transplantation. Coronary architecture was assessed in 38 patients (64.4%). Discrete evidence of CAD was present in 28 of 39 patients (71.7%). All pancreas candidates (n = 21) who underwent left heart catheterization (LHC) demonstrated CAD (100%). No patients experienced myocardial infarction (MI) and no deaths resulted from cardiac disease in the early post-transplant period. Pancreas transplant candidates are at high risk for CAD. At a center in which pancreas transplant rates are increasing, a rigorous cardiac work up revealed that 71.7% of assessed recipients had CAD. Although asymptomatic, 6.8% required coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). Despite increasing age and co-morbid status, pancreas transplant recipients can enjoy excellent results if protocolized preoperative testing is used. MDPI 2019-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6960608/ /pubmed/31627355 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mps2040082 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article St. Michel, David Donnelly, Tracy Jackson, Towanda Taylor, Bradley Barth, Rolf N. Bromberg, Jonathan S. Scalea, Joseph R. Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program |
title | Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program |
title_full | Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program |
title_fullStr | Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program |
title_short | Assessing Pancreas Transplant Candidate Cardiac Disease: Preoperative Protocol Development at a Rapidly Growing Transplant Program |
title_sort | assessing pancreas transplant candidate cardiac disease: preoperative protocol development at a rapidly growing transplant program |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31627355 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mps2040082 |
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