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2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor-specific Anti-HLA Alloantibody in Kidney Transplant Recipients with COVID-19 Exhibit a Different Immunoglobulin Class and Subclass Profile When Compared to Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies
A. Girnita¹, L. Wang¹, M. Fernandez-Vina¹, E. Woodle², P. Ahearn¹, T. Yalamarti¹, M. Menon³, Y. Azzi⁴, M. Melcher¹, R. Bray⁵, H. Gebel⁵, E. Akalin⁴, P. Cravedi³, J. S. Maltzman¹
¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ²University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ³Icahn School of Medicine, NYC, NY, ⁴Einstein School of Medicine, NYC, NY, ⁵Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Both anti-HLA and anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies target protein antigens. The aim of the present study was to compare the class and subclass profile of such…
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Feasibility of a Virtual Renal Transplant Simulation Model for Surgical Trainees in the Covid Era
O. Eletta¹, S. Iacono¹, D. Walls¹, S. Puri², B. Perry¹, C. Anderson¹, M. J. Nguyen³, A. Bongu²
¹General Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Transplant, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ³Transplant Institute, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA
*Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing requirements has affected our resident education curriculum. We developed a virtual renal transplant simulation session to simulate renal…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Unclear Implications of Tacrolimus Time in Therapeutic Range as a Predictor of Acute Rejection in Renal Transplant Recipients Undergoing Early Corticosteroid Withdrawal
D. Pierce, P. West-Thielke, Z. Hajjiri, S. Gaitonde, I. Tzvetanov, E. Benedetti, A. Lichvar
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Tacrolimus (TAC) demonstrates a wide intra- and inter-patient variability (IPV) necessitating therapeutic drug monitoring. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact…
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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Is Low Systemic Fibrinolytic Activity During the Anhepatic Phase Liver Transplant Surgery Associate with the Dreaded Post-Operative Complication of Hepatic Artery Thrombosis?
H. B. Moore¹, Y. Bababekov¹, J. Pomposelli¹, T. Ferrell¹, F. Azam¹, M. Adams², D. Yoeli¹, R. Choudhury¹, M. Wachs², E. Pomfret¹, T. Nydam¹
¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Removal of the native liver during transplantation results in impaired clearance of clot degrading proteins and activation of fibrinolysis as appreciated by Starzl in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Allocation Changes and Covid Effect on Waiting Time for Liver Transplantation
L. Dageforde¹, Q. Yuan², N. Elias¹
¹Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Organ Transplant Institute, 8th Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
*Purpose: On April 30, 2019 the National Liver Review Board (NLRB) was implemented and patients meeting criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma exception points received a score…
2021 American Transplant Congress
hlaR,” a Simplified Interface for the HLA Matchmaker Tool
A. Johnson¹, J. Zhang¹, H. Gebel², C. Larsen¹
¹Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Functional epitopes, or eplets, represent a set of amino acids within three angstroms of one another that may not be sequentially contiguous but are…
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Impact of Liver Acuity Circles on Timing of Donor Procurements
R. Radhakrishnan, D. Goldberg
University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: The Acuity Circles (AC) policy in liver transplantation led to broader organ sharing, whereby many organ procurement organization (OPOs) had to coordinate organ offers…
2021 American Transplant Congress
SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Retrospective Cohort Study
A. Adeel
Infectious Diseases, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
*Purpose: Initial studies of COVID-19 in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients demonstrated high mortality rates, but more recent comparative data shows contradictory results.*Methods: We evaluated…
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Quality Improvement Surveillance by Machine Learning
J. D. Perkins¹, E. Clemens², M. Granich³, J. Yeung³, J. Reyes¹
¹Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Center of Clinical Excellence, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: The purpose of this quality study was to compare our newly developed natural language processing (NLP) machine learning surveillance algorithm in detecting the rate…