2020 American Transplant Congress
Report of Organ Offers Linked with Instant Messaging Data Provides a Basis for Quality Improvement
Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Thousands of viable organs are discarded every year with incorrect or inappropriate reasons for declination. One limitation on the accessibility of organ transplantation is…2020 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Transplant Center Responses to the Minimum Acceptance Criteria Across UNOS Regions, 2007-2019
1Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The objective of this study was to examine trends in transplant center willingness to accept organs from Public Health Service increased-risk donors for infectious…2020 American Transplant Congress
Defining the Psychological Profile of Living Organ Donors Using Personality Assessment Inventory
*Purpose: We aim to assess the psychological profile of living organ donors using normative referenced psychological assessment of personality and pathology.*Methods: Evaluation for living kidney…2020 American Transplant Congress
Change in the Willingness of Transplant Candidates to Accept Hepatitis C Virus Positive Deceased Donor Organs in the Era of Direct-Acting Antivirals
Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications’ advent in 2014 very effectively changed the hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment landscape and allowed post-transplant HCV therapy. We aimed…2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplanting Livers from Hepatitis C Virus Positive Donors; Is it Worth the Risk?
*Purpose: Before the introduction of Direct-Acting Antivirals (DAAs), only selected organs from Hepatitis C virus (HCV) positive donors were successfully transplanted into HCV positive recipients.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Survey of Clinician Opinions on Use of Organ Transplants from Hepatitis C Virus Positive Donors: Identifying & Overcoming Barriers
*Purpose: Increasing the use of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) viremic (Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT)+) donor organs for HCV uninfected (HCV-) patients is a potential approach…2020 American Transplant Congress
Mechanisms by Which Donor Bone-Marrow CXCR4+ Foxp3+ Tregs Promote Long-Term Survival of Murine Limb Allografts
*Purpose: Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) allows tissue replacement after devastating loss but is currently limited in application and may be more widely performed if maintenance…2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of DSA-Free Heart Allocation
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 3UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Currently, donation service area (DSA) is the first geographic unit for heart allocation, which creates discrepancies in access for high-urgency candidates. We studied the…2020 American Transplant Congress
Building Kidneys from Stem Cells for Transplantation
*Purpose: Our vision is to build a human kidney by combining human stem cells with porcine kidney extracellular matrix.*Methods: Kidneys were decellularized followed by repopulation…2020 American Transplant Congress
Suppressing Laminin Alpha5 Creates Tolerogenic Niches for Allograft Survival
1UMB, Baltimore, MD, 2Harvard University, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Laminin α5 (Lama5) regulates CD4 T cell migration and function. We hypothesized that stromal Lama5 regulates the structure of the lymph node (LN) microenvironment…
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