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2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 Infections Post-liver and Kidney Transplantation in a Southern Ca Program
M. E. de Vera¹, J. Woloszyn², S. Regmi², R. Rattanavich², M. Rakoski², M. Lin², P. Mehta², A. Kore², J. Weissman², C. Martens², T. Phan², B. Jerez-Aguilar², M. Robinson², E. Wells², R. Villicana², M. Nguyen²
¹Loma Linda University Health, San Bernardino, CA, ²Transplant Institute, Loma Linda University Health, San Bernardino, CA
*Purpose: Southern CA is at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. We reviewed outcomes of our center's liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant patients stricken with…
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Creating a Culturally Sensitive Report Card for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates: Preliminary Results from Pilot Interviews and Focus Groups
W. T. McKinney¹, M. Bruin², B. Kasiske³, A. Matas⁴, A. K. Israni³
¹Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation continue to negatively impact African American (AA) patients despite changes to deceased donor allocation practices. AA patients are overrepresented…
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Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Scoping Review
A. G. Anderson, M. Eubank, K. Murray
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
*Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are an emerging treatment for numerous advanced diseases, but their safety and efficacy in immunosuppressed transplant patients is not known.…
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Combined Liver and Lung Transplantation with Extended Normothermic Liver Preservation Using Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS)^TM Liver: A Single Center Experience
J. Konel¹, M. Shamaa², O. Shamaa², A. Elsabbagh², T. Kitajima², T. Ivanics², K. Delvecchio², A. Mohamed², S. Yeddula², K. Collins², A. Yoshida², M. Abouljoud², S. Nagai², M. Rizzari²
¹Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, ²Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Combined liver-lung transplantation (CLLT) is indicated in patients who cannot survive single-organ transplantation alone. Ex-situ normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has been used to increase…
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Association of Obesity and Early Post Kidney Transplantation Complications
V. Sandra, N. Sanichar, D. Tsapepas, K. L. King, J. Van Bever, K. Toma, A. Hussain, S. Mohan
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Although the prevalence of obesity among kidney transplant recipients is rising, there continues to be reluctance to waitlist obese candidates. We sought to determine…
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Black Transplant Recipients Reside in the Most Socially Vulnerable Communities
A. C. Killian¹, M. C. McLeod¹, B. Shelton¹, R. D. Reed¹, P. MacLennan¹, H. Qu¹, B. J. Orandi¹, D. Sawinski², J. E. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL, ²Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Racial and socioeconomic disparities in post-transplant outcomes have been described for all solid organ recipients. While the importance of the social determinants of health…
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Improving Well-being for Heart Transplant Recipients: Implementation of a Patient Navigator Program
K. Ramonas, K. Ramonas
Health Navigator Foundation, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: When surveyed, heart transplant recipients cited managing all their healthcare needs as a primary concern 83% of the time (n=23). To respond to this…
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Outcomes of Patients Referred for Liver Transplant Evaluation
E. Solomon¹, M. Waykar², K. Robichaux³, J. Buggs⁴, A. Kumar¹, N. Kemmer⁵
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Honors College, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ³Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁵Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: National demand for liver transplants is increasing steadily, with 8,896 liver transplants performed in the USA in 2019, a 7.8% increase from 2018. The…
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Combined CD11b/CD40 Blockade is Superior to CD40 Blockade Alone in Prolonging Survival in Pig-to-Nonhuman Primate Renal Xenotransplantation
D. A. Faber¹, B. Lovasik¹, A. Matar¹, C. Breeden¹, S. Kim¹, A. Adams²
¹Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Blockade of the CD40/CD154 pathway is highly effective in preventing rejection in pig-to-nonhuman primate (NHP) xenotransplantation models. Clinical translation of anti-CD154 mAbs, however, has…
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Patient Perspective of the Implementation of Virtual Medicine in a Post-kidney Transplant Clinic
S. Mann¹, M. Kadatz¹, J. Lan¹, O. Johnston¹, C. Luo²
¹Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: COVID-19 dramatically altered the model of health care delivery for transplant recipients, necessitating the routine use of virtual medicine. This resulted in consequences for…