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2021 American Transplant Congress
One-Year Monitoring of Changes to Kidney-Pancreas Waiting Time Criteria: An OPTN Analysis
R. C. Forbes¹, B. Plucinski², J. White², N. T. Kyaw², R. Kandaswamy³, S. V. Niederhaus⁴
¹Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 2018, the OPTN board approved changes to kidney-pancreas (KP) waiting time criteria. KP candidates accrued waiting time if they were (1) on insulin…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Systematic Evaluation of Immunosuppressant Drug Tolerability in Lung Transplant Recipients with Short Telomere Syndrome
R. Patolia¹, R. Guzy², L. Potter¹
¹Department of Pharmacy, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Lung transplant recipients with short telomere syndrome are at high risk of hematologic complications. Consequently, patients with short telomere syndrome may require more frequent…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Endocrine Cell Identity and HOMA-B In Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis Undergoing Islet Auto-transplantation
C. A. Beamish¹, O. Gaber², O. M. Sabek²
¹Surgery, Houston Mehodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Surgery, Houston Mehodist, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Islet identity loss is an emergent factor in dysglycemia in diabetes, islet transplantation, and chronic pancreatitis (CP). Pancreatectomy and islet auto-transplantation (PIAT) for CP…
2021 American Transplant Congress
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…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Gray on the Border: A Closer Look at the Gap in Access to Kidney Transplantation for Hispanic Americans
A. Padilla, M. Mujtaba, R. Samper-Ternent, S. Al Snih, N. Perez, J. Fair, R. Kulkarni, E. Polychronopoulou, M. Kueht
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: Hispanic Americans have disproportionately reduced access to kidney transplantation that is significantly affected by longstanding cultural and geographical disparities. These disparities are multifactorial and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Paired Surveillance Biopsies Over >4 Years from a Multi-Center Cohort of 78 Long-Term Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
E. R. Perito¹, E. Persyn², J. Bucuvalas³, J. E. Squires⁴, M. Martinez⁵, S. Mohammad⁶, A. J. Demetris⁴, S. Feng¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²King's College, London, United Kingdom, ³Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NY, ⁴U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵Columbia U, NY, NY, ⁶Northwestern U, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Progressive liver fibrosis threatens graft and patient longevity for children after liver transplantation (LT). Previous studies are limited to single-center, cross-sectional analyses. To address…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Insulin Therapy in Pancreas Transplantation Donors on Graft Outcomes: An Analysis of the Optn/unos Database
E. Montagud-Marrahi¹, F. Ausania², Y. Fundora², A. Amor³, E. Esmatjes³, J. Ferrer², I. Revuelta¹, D. Cucchiari¹, J. Rovira⁴, M. Musquera⁵, C. Fondevila², F. Diekmann¹, P. Ventura-Aguiar¹
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Department, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Hepatobiliopancreatic and Liver Transplant Department, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Endocrinology Department, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Laboratori Experimental de Nefrologia I Trasplantament (LENIT), CRB CELLEX, Fundació Clínic, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Urology Department, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Hyperglycemia requiring insulin treatment is frequent in critically ill patients and potential pancreas donors. Information on the impact of donor insulin use on pancreas…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Changes in Renal Function Predict Waitlist Death or Deterioration in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
N. Thalji, L. Thalji, S. Ibrahim, T. Diwan, P. Kamath, J. Heimbach
Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Renal dysfunction at the time of listing predicts inferior waitlist outcomes in pediatric liver transplant candidates, independent of the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD)…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Renal Outcomes in Lung Transplant Recipients- A Single-Center Five-Year Experience
M. Doraiswamy, E. Obole, P. Singh, T. Pesavento
Comprehensive Transplant Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: The increased longevity in Lung transplant (LTx) has led to an upsurge in chronic medical comorbidities, including Acute kidney injury (AKI), Chronic kidney disease…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Genetic versus Self-reported African Ancestry and Kidney Allograft Outcome: Analysis of Two Large Multiethnic Urban Transplant Cohorts
F. Zanoni¹, D. Neugut¹, S. Mohan¹, A. Gharavi¹, B. Keating², K. Kiryluk¹
¹Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ²Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: African-American (AA) kidney transplant recipients (KTx) have higher risk of rejection and failure. However, it is unknown to what extent the inferior outcomes in…