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2022 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Recipient Social Support Network: Impact on Clinical Outcomes
M. M. French¹, R. S. Mangus², R. Holmes³, A. Krause³, J. Sumner³, C. Kubal⁴, B. Ekser⁵, P. Mihaylov⁶, J. Fridell⁷, A. Lutz⁸
¹Social Work, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ³Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Department of Surgery, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, ⁵Surgery, Indiana University - Transplant Surgery, Indianapolis, IN, ⁶Department of Surgery, Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁷Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁸Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Fishers, IN
*Purpose: Health disparities are present in transplantation, just as in other areas of medicine. This is a retrospective review of liver transplant (LT) recipients to…
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Reducing Financial Burden for Living Donors: A Single Center Experience of Increased National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) Support
T. Klair, K. Throgmorton, D. Oviedo, E. Cepeda
Transplant Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) offers assistance to overcome some of the financial barriers associated with Living Donation. From 2015 to 2020, an…
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Gsk3beta Regulates the Resolution of Liver Ischemia Reperfusion Injury via MerTK
H. Zhang¹, M. Ni², J. Zhang¹, R. Busuttil¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski¹, W. Li³, X. Wang², Y. E. Zhai¹
¹Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, ³China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, JiLing, China
*Purpose: We have shown previously that glycogen synthase kinase β (Gsk3β) regulates liver inflammatory activation against ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). The question of whether it also…
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Dietary Sodium Intake And Blood Pressure In Living Kidney Donors (SPLID): Rationale And Design Of A Pilot Single-center Crossover Single-blind Randomized Controlled Trial
E. Tantisattamo¹, U. G. Reddy¹, A. J. Ferrey¹, H. Ichii², D. C. Dafoe², H. Moradi¹, C. M. Rhee¹, K. Kalantar-Zadeh¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA, ²Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA
*Purpose: Since living kidney donors(LKD) are generally healthy and non-hypertensive individuals, non-pharmacologic interventions are likely to be an acceptable and practical approach to preventing hypertension(HTN).…
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Single Center Experience with Acute Kidney Injury Deceased Donor Kidneys from Marginal Donors
B. K. Sharda, M. Garner, A. Farney, G. Orlando, C. Jay, J. Rogers, A. Daniel, A. Gutierrez, N. Sakhovskaya, R. Stratta
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC
*Purpose: Many centers will selectively transplant kidneys from standard criteria donors (SCD) with terminal acute kidney injury (AKI). However, there is limited experience with transplanting…
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Dual Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants: Maximizing Utilization of Suboptimal Kidneys
S. Nagaraju, S. Vaishnav, K. Boggs, T. Cook, A. Jones, J. B. Africa
Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV
*Purpose: To demonstrate that dual transplant of marginal kidneys is an underutilized strategy to minimize discard rates and mitigate organ shortage.*Methods: We compared dual kidney…
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A Model for Medical Device Innovation in Transplantation: Using the Biodesign Process to Address the Impact of Warm Ischemic Injury
K. Hansen¹, J. Wall²
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: The impact of warming during second warm-ischemia (anastomosis) of kidney transplantation has been increasingly recognized in the literature. The outsized effect on delayed graft…
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Cold Ischemia Time is More Critical for Older Donor Kidney Survival: A Machine Learning Approach
J. Kim, J. Ahn, A. Massie, D. Segev, S. Bae
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Increasing utilization of kidneys from older donors is a potential solution to mitigate the organ shortage. However, older donor age is a risk factor…
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Risk Factors Associated with ICU Admission and Death in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 Differ Between Solid Organ Transplant and Non-Solid Organ Transplant Patients
J. Schaenman, H. Byford, T. R. Grogan, Y. Motwani, O. Beaird, M. Kamath, E. Lum, K. Meneses, D. Sayah, D. Vucicevic, S. Saab
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Despite the large numbers of reports on patient risk factors for poor clinical outcomes with COVID-19, little is known about how these risks may…
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Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Testing in Kidney Transplantation: Do One-Month Values Have Any Prognostic Significance?
B. K. Sharda¹, M. Garner¹, A. Farney¹, G. Orlando², J. Rogers², C. Jay³, A. Daniel¹, A. Guiterrez¹, N. Sakhovskaya¹, R. Stratta¹
¹ATRIUM HEALTH Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, ²Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, ³Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Plasma-based donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) assays have been proposed as an alternative to percutaneous renal allograft biopsy which is the current gold standard for…