2022 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Porcine Kidneys in Transplantation Model for Training General Surgery Residents
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
*Purpose: We sought to increase the opportunities for general surgery residents to hone their vascular anastomosis skills. Accordingly, we created a kidney transplant model using…2022 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Implication of Kidney Injury Prior to Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure
*Purpose: Acute liver failure (ALF) is a heterogeneous disease process that often includes acute kidney injury. Long-term sequelae of kidney impairment in patients with ALF…2022 American Transplant Congress
Four Separate Frailty Metrics Lack Concordance and Are Non-Reflective of the Kidney Transplant Listing Outcome: A Large Single Center Review
Transplant Surgery, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: It is well known that functional status has prognostic value for post-surgical outcomes, however pre-transplant patients are not required to undergo objective frailty testing.…2022 American Transplant Congress
Low T Cell Responsiveness in the Early Phase Of COVID-19 Associates with Progression to Severe Pneumonia in Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Kidney transplant (KT) recipients are more prone to developing life-threatening forms of COVID-19 than the general population. Little is known about the immunological mechanisms…2022 American Transplant Congress
Achievement of Persistent Mixed Chimerism in Recipients of Matched and Mismatched Living Donor Kidney Transplants in a Tolerance Induction Protocol
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: The induction of tolerance to kidney transplants after development of specific unresponsiveness of recipient immune cells to donor alloantigens allows elimination of maintenance immunosuppressive…2022 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Race Modifies the Association Between Obesity and Long Term Graft Outcomes After Renal Transplantation
*Purpose: Both donor and recipient obesity are associated with adverse outcomes after transplant. Whether obesity, defined using body mass index (BMI), has different implications on…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pegloticase Use in Renal Transplant Recipients with Gout: Findings from an Insurance Claims Database Study
1Iowa Kidney Physicians, Des Moines, IA, 2Horizon Therapeutics plc, Deerfield, IL
*Purpose: Kidney transplant (KT) recipients have high gout incidence due to reduced eGFR and medication use associated with hyperuricemia.1 Oral urate-lowering therapies in KT patients…2022 American Transplant Congress
Novel Immune Checkpoint Molecule TIGIT Mediates Experimental Kidney Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: T cells play both pathogenic and reparative roles in kidney ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) but the molecular mechanisms regulating kidney T cell functions are…2022 American Transplant Congress
Adjustment for Race and Ethnicity Does Not Change Transplant Center Outcome Metrics for Liver Recipients
1Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Concerns have been raised about whether transplant center metrics should be adjusted for race and ethnicity given long-standing disparities in outcomes. Proponents of adjustment…2022 American Transplant Congress
PTLD Suspected by Visualization of Atypical Urinary Lymphocytes
*Purpose: Urinalysis has been used for the detection of acute rejection but visualization of atypical lymphocytes in the urine sediment as an early sign of…
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