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2022 American Transplant Congress
Of the Individual Components of a Modified Freid Frailty Score, Pre-Transplant Walk Time and Grip Strength Are the Strongest Predictors of Post Kidney Transplant Outcomes
S. Parajuli, F. Aziz, H. L. Lorden, K. A. O'Toole, R. E. Wallschlaeger, I. C. Breyer, B. Dodin, J. Goronzik Wang, D. A. Mandelbrot
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Frailty assessment has become common during evaluation for kidney transplantation; however, a variety of different tools are used for frailty assessment. The Freid frailty…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Cephalexin and Ciprofloxacin Prophylaxis for Urinary Tract Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients
N. A. Pauley, M. Fitzmaurice, A. Poparad-Stezar, B. Summers, A. Jantz
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Compare efficacy and safety outcomes of patients (pts) that received alternative agents as prophylaxis (ppx) for urinary tract infection (UTI) after kidney transplant (KT)…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Comparative Outcomes at a Single Center for 71 Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants from Donors with Sars-CoV-2 RNA Detection
C. E. Koval¹, E. Poggio², M. Eltemamy³, Y. Lin², M. Duck⁴, N. Shrestha⁵, A. Wee²
¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Nephrology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ⁵Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Extra-pulmonary organs from donors with SARS-CoV-2 detection during donor evaluation are not accepted by many centers due to theoretical concerns for productive infection and…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Outcome Predictors with Perioperative Kidney Transplant Midodrine Usage
R. Watson¹, S. Mullins², S. Williams³, F. Fakhre⁴, K. Robichaux⁴, S. Mohammed⁴, M. Gosselin³, A. Kumar⁵, J. Buggs¹, V. Bowers¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²Florida A &M University, Tallahassee, FL, ³University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ⁴University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁵Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Midodrine is an alpha-1 agonist drug commonly used to aid hypotension in kidney transplant patients. Little is described regarding outcomes with midodrine in kidney…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Lung Allograft-Resident Eosinophils Maintain Long-Term Graft Integrity by Restraining Humoral Alloimmunity
Z. Mei¹, Y. Guo¹, D. Li¹, M. Khalil¹, A. Banerjee¹, A. Gelman², D. Kreisel², A. Krupnick³
¹Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, ²Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, ³Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, baltimore, MD
*Purpose: The finding that eosinophils facilitate immunosuppression-mediated acceptance of murine lung allograft by downregulating alloreactive CD8+ T cells has been recently described by our group.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Self-Reported Physical Function to In-Person Frailty Assessments for the Prediction of Rehospitalizations After Kidney Transplantation
E. Lorenz¹, C. Kennedy¹, C. Schinstock¹, A. Kukla¹, D. Eton¹, H. Wadei², G. Mour³, P. Dean⁴, A. Rule¹, N. LeBrasseur¹, A. Cheville¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Rehospitalizations are common after kidney transplantation (KT) and associated with increased cost, allograft failure, and death. Physical frailty as defined by Fried criteria has…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Islet-Derived Exosomes Carry Self-Antigens and May Induce Autoimmunity After Transplantation
S. Vasu¹, C. Darden², J. Mattke², Y. Liu³, M. C. Lawrence³, B. Naziruddin¹
¹Baylor University Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX, ²Baylor University, Waco, TX, ³Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Our earlier observations revealed release of exosomes from human islets containing microRNAs (miRNA) specific to islet stress and damage in vitro and in vivo…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Real-Time Biometric Monitoring Using Wearable Devices for Pediatric Heart Transplant Rejection and Infection Surveillance
D. Gandla¹, J. B. Edelson², E. Mukhtar¹, J. Callanan¹, H. Lad¹, H. Gao¹, J. Cornetta¹, B. Keating¹
¹Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Monitoring for acute rejection (AR) after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHTx) is primarily achieved by evaluating histological endomyocardial biopsies (EMBx). However, this procedure is limited…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Cell-Free DNA Median and Distribution in Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients
J. N. Gray¹, J. Miles¹, K. Oreschak¹, L. Jenkins¹, B. Feingold²
¹CareDx, South San Francisco, CA, ²Children's Hosp of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: The utilization of endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) in the post-transplant surveillance of pediatric heart transplant (pHT) recipients can be challenging for a myriad of reasons;…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient and Graft Survival for Simultaneous Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients from Hepatitis C Viremic Donors: A Unos Database Analysis
Z. Haddadin, A. Parsikia, H. Kaul, N. Chandolias, R. Zaki, K. Khanmoradi
General Surgery, Einstein Medical Center-Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: We aimed to compare recipient and graft survival for simultaneous kidney and liver transplant (SLK) recipients from hepatitis C virus (HCV) nucleic acid test…