Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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Risk Factors for Cardiac Events and Early Mortality after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Experience

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Ilan Weisberg, Mamta Mehta, Farid Razavi, Samantha Nazareth, Robert Brown

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Annual Meeting, October 29 - November 2, 2010

Attending AASLD's annual Liver Meeting in Boston this year was a great experience as this was my first national conference. I was fortunate enough to work on a year-long project with a talented team of two other Department of Medicine residents under the direction of our third-year GI fellow who is now an attending. At the conference I had the opportunity to share our project with hepatologists and scientists and exchange our findings with other residents and researchers who conducted projects in the same area. A common complication of liver transplant, after graft rejection and sepsis, is a cardiac event. However, current cardiac risk stratifying tools have not been shown to accurately predict cardiac events post-transplant in liver transplant candidates. It was interesting to discuss with other researchers what they thought about this problem and how they proposed to come up with a cardiac risk stratification model for this population. Our GI fellow (now attending) gave an oral presentation on our findings that was well received by the audience.

Mamta Mehta, MD, PGY2, Gastroenterology