Liver Transplant
This is the coring system is used to prioritize patients from liver transplant listing based on lab values.
What is the MELD score?
This is a surgical procedure that replaces one or both diseased lungs with donor lungs to improve survival and quality of life.
What is a lung transplant?
This nutritional condition is associated with delayed wound healing, infections, longer length of stay, and increased post-transplant complications.
What is malnutrition?
This is the vascular complication that can occur as early as postoperative day 1 after live transplantation and may lead to biliary strictures, abscesses, graft loss, or death.
What is hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT)?
These are two of the several conditions that lead to a need for lung transplantation.
Advanced or end-stage lung disease, such as:
- COPD
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Cystic fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension.
(any two)
Patients outside of this BMI range of 18.5-35 are at risk for this kind of outcome after transplant.
What are adverse outcomes?
This is the biliary reconstruction that is used when the native bile duct is unusable and prevents standard ERCP access post-transplant.
What is a roux-en-y anastamosis?
This score, from 0-100, helps prioritize lung transplant candidates based on illness severity and expected benefit.
Oral or enteral nutrition should ideally begin within this timeframe after transplant, if clinically safe.
what is 24 hours?
This life-threatening complication presents with poor bile production, rising bilirubin, and severe graft dysfunction, often requiring urgent re-transplantation.
What is primary nonfunction (PNF)?
What are two of several key nursing post op care priorities in lung transplantation?
What are: Immunosuppression, infection prevention, hemodynamic stability, ventilator weaning, and pain control.
What is supplemental parenteral nutrition?
This is the donor perfusion technique which restores warm, oxygenated blood to abdominal organs after circulatory death to reduce ischemic injury.
What is normothermic regional perfusion (NRP)?
This is a condition where the immune system attacks the donor lung, requiring close monitoring and immunosuppressive therapy.
What is transplant rejection?
This is the dietary pattern that has the strongest observational evidence for improving glycemic control and cardioembolic risk.
What is the Mediterranean diet?