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2022 American Transplant Congress
CoVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy in Heart Transplant Recipients, a Single Center Experience
M. Yu¹, S. B. Sharmin², C. Joyce³, Z. Pieters¹, S. DeSirkar¹, M. Thomas¹, S. Kim¹, E. Bruno¹, M. Liebo¹, A. Heroux⁴, N. Clark¹, G. Reid¹, S. Uprichard²
¹Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, ²Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁴Loyola Univ Medical Ctr, Maywood, IL
*Purpose: Transplant recipients have worse CoVID-19 survival compared to the general population, and thus are recommended to be vaccinated and boosted. Determinants of vaccination efficacy…
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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…
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Regulatory Gene Pathways Are Upregulated in Heart Transplant Biopsies with Quilty Lesions
Q. Cai, L. De Las Casas, J. Torrealba
Pathology, UTSW Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Quilty lesions (QL) are commonly sub-endocardial lymphoid aggregates found in biopsies from heart transplants. Their appearance and presence in the cardiac tissue is still…
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Transitional-1 B Cell IL-10/TNFα Ratio Risk-Stratifies Renal Transplant Patients with Early Borderline Change
A. Cherukuri, P. Randhawa, S. Hariharan, D. Rothstein
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Recent studies have shown that Banff borderline change (BLC) on allograft biopsies (Bx) is associated with decreased graft survival. However, many patients with BLC…
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High Case Fatality Rate Among Fully Vaccinated Kidney Transplant Recipients with Breakthrough Covid-19 During the Delta Surge
K. Vieira, E. Klein, A. Lerner, D. Farmakioits
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University, Providence, RI
*Purpose: Organ transplant recipients (OTR) have worse outcomes from COVID-19 and weaker antibody responses to vaccination than do immunocompetent individuals. Data on clinical outcomes among…
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Early Tacrolimus Exposure is Associated with BK-Viremia in Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Meziyerh, A. L. van Rijn, D. van der Helm, P. J. van der Boog, T. van Gelder, A. C. Kroes, J. W. de Fijter, D. J. Moes, J. I. Rotmans, M. C. Feltkamp, A. P. de Vries
LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands
*Purpose: There is scant evidence to what extent maintenance immunosuppression is quantitatively associated with BK viremia. We investigated the association between tacrolimus (tac) whole blood…
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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…
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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;…
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Antibody Response and Cellular Phenotyping in Kidney Transplant Recipients Following Sars-CoV-2 Vaccination
N. M. Ali¹, J. Miles², S. Mehta¹, V. Tatapudi¹, B. Lonze¹, E. Weldon¹, Z. Stewart¹, C. DiMaggio¹, J. Allen³, S. Gray-Gaillard³, S. Solis³, M. Tuen³, J. Leonard¹, R. Montgomery¹, R. Herati³
¹Transplant Institute, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ²CareDx, Brisbane, NY, ³NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*Purpose: Correlates of protection for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are not well-established in kidney transplant recipients(KTRs). Studies have highlighted the importance of neutralizing antibodies(Abs), however data suggests…
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Comparative Analysis of Liver Organ Offers Pre- and Post- Acuity Circle Policy Change in the US
V. Reddy¹, R. Ruiz², H. Fernandez³, J. Bayer³, E. Martinez³, A. Gupta³, G. McKenna⁴, N. Onaca³, S. Lee³, T. Ma³, G. Testa³, A. Wall³
¹Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Allen, TX, ²Baylor University Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX, ³Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴Baylor Simmons Transplant Inst, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: With the intended goal of reducing geographic inequities, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) transitioned to…