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Shawn J. Pelletier
Researcher at University of Virginia
Publications - 114
Citations - 6328
Shawn J. Pelletier is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transplantation & Liver transplantation. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 109 publications receiving 5738 citations. Previous affiliations of Shawn J. Pelletier include Yonsei University & University of Michigan.
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Liver Transplantation in the United States, 1999–2008
Paul J. Thuluvath,Mary K. Guidinger,John J. Fung,L. B. Johnson,Stephen C. Rayhill,Shawn J. Pelletier +5 more
TL;DR: Despite increases in donor and recipient risk factors, there was a trend towards better 1‐year graft and patient survival between 1998 and 2007 and of major concern, however, were considerable regional variations in waiting time and posttransplant survival.
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Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the ICU: Society of Critical Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Consensus Statement
Robert M. Kotloff,Sandralee Blosser,Gerard J. Fulda,Darren Malinoski,Vivek N. Ahya,Luis F. Angel,Matthew C. Byrnes,Michael A. DeVita,Thomas E. Grissom,Scott D. Halpern,Thomas A. Nakagawa,Peter G. Stock,Debra L. Sudan,Kenneth E. Wood,Sergio Anillo,Thomas P. Bleck,Elling Eidbo,Richard A. Fowler,Alexandra K. Glazier,Cynthia J. Gries,Richard Hasz,Daniel Herr,Akhtar Khan,David Landsberg,Daniel J. Lebovitz,Deborah Levine,Mudit Mathur,Priyumvada M. Naik,Claus U. Niemann,David R. Nunley,Kevin J. O’Connor,Shawn J. Pelletier,Omar Rahman,Dinesh Ranjan,Ali Salim,Robert G. Sawyer,Teresa J. Shafer,David Sonneti,Peter Spiro,Maryam Valapour,Deepak Vikraman-Sushama,Timothy P.M. Whelan +41 more
TL;DR: The goal of this document is to provide critical care practitioners with essential information and practical recommendations related to management of the potential organ donor, based on the available literature and expert consensus.
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Impact of a rotating empiric antibiotic schedule on infectious mortality in an intensive care unit.
Daniel P. Raymond,Shawn J. Pelletier,Traves D. Crabtree,Thomas G. Gleason,Lori L. Hamm,Timothy L. Pruett,Robert G. Sawyer +6 more
TL;DR: Rotation of empirical antibiotic therapy seems to be a promising method to reduce infectious mortality in an ICU, and was an independent predictor of survival.
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Donation after cardiac death as a strategy to increase deceased donor liver availability.
Robert M. Merion,Shawn J. Pelletier,Nathan P. Goodrich,Michael J. Englesbe,Francis L. Delmonico +4 more
TL;DR: The annual number of DCD livers used for transplant has increased rapidly and are associated with a significantly increased risk of graft failure unrelated to modifiable donor or recipient factors, but Appropriate recipients for DCd livers have not been fully characterized.
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Portal vein thrombosis and survival in patients with cirrhosis
Michael J. Englesbe,James Kubus,Wajee Muhammad,Christopher J. Sonnenday,Theodore H. Welling,Jeffrey D. Punch,Raymond J. Lynch,Jorge A. Marrero,Shawn J. Pelletier +8 more
TL;DR: Patients with cirrhosis complicated by PVT have an increased risk of death, according to the main exposure variable, the presence of occlusive PVT at the time of liver transplantation.