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  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Paired Exchanges in LDLT- A Good Option for Patients with Incompatible Donors

    A. Humar, C. Hughes, G. Mazariegos, S. Kyle, A. Gallatin, K. Emmett, A. Tevar, M. Molinari, A. Ganoza, V. Gunabushanam, S. Ganesh

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: In the US, paired exchanges are common for LD kidney transplant but not for LDLT. We present our series of paired exchanges for LDLT,…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    The Association Between Environmental Determinants and High KDRI Organ Offer Acceptance Ratios

    A. M. Placona, C. Martinez, M. Stuart

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Henrico, VA

    *Purpose: Increasing the number of transplants could be realized by increasing high KDRI organ utilization. While the impact of transplant center (TXC) aggressiveness and competition…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Trends in Liver Donors for Liver Transplantation Over Twenty Years: Donor Changes in Gender, Relationships, and Education, but Racial Disparities Remain

    A. Kaplan, B. Fortune, R. Brown, MD, MPH, B. Samstein, K. Halazun, R. Rosenblatt

    Gastroenterology and Hepatology, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) has grown over the past several decades as a response to critical organ shortages. Racial and ethnic disparities exist…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Community- Targeted Educational Campaign on Living Donor Transplants

    S. Ganesh, A. Humar

    Transplant, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: There is an urgent need to expand access to living donor liver transplants due to a wide gap in the availability of deceased donor…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Advanced Renal Dysfunction on Post-Transplant Outcomes After Living Donor Liver Transplantation in the United States

    T. Bittermann1, N. Kaur2, P. L. Abt1, K. M. Olthoff1, J. K. Heimbach3, J. Emamaullee2

    1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 3Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: Survival after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in the U.S. is excellent. However, the significance of pre-transplant kidney disease on outcomes after LDLT is…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    T-cell-Mediated Immunity to Sars-cov-2 Defines Covid-19 Risk and Severity in Transplanted and Non-Transplanted Individuals and Associates with Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells

    C. Ashokkumar1, V. Rohan2, A. H. Kroemer3, S. Rao4, G. Mazariegos5, B. W. Higgs5, S. Nadig2, M. Ningappa5, T. Fishbein3, S. Subramaniam6, R. Sindhi7

    1Plexision, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 3MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown, DC, 4DHR Health Institute for Research and Development, Texas, TX, 5University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 6University of California, San Diego, CA, 7University of Pittsburgh, pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: We assessed whether COVID-19-risk is enhanced by chronic immunosuppression, and is associated with suppressor cells.*Methods: We tested 66 COVID-19 patients, including 26 with solid…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Live Donor Champion: Advocacy Training to Facilitate Identification of Living Liver Donors

    L. R. Herbst, Y. Yu, A. Love, K. Lee, A. Wells, K. Mohr, A. Massie, A. Gurakar, B. King, D. L. Segev, A. M. Cameron, J. Garonzik Wang

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Liver transplant candidates face several barriers to finding a potential live donor (PLD), such as lack of education or knowledge, or discomfort approaching others…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Steroid-free Immunosuppression in Heart-Kidney Transplant Patients: Is It Safe?

    R. Skorka, J. Patel, M. Kittleson, N. Patel, T. Singer-Englar, A. Velleca, B. Azarbal, D. Chang, E. Kransdorf, L. Czer, D. Megna, J. A. Kobashigawa

    Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation (sHKTx) has increased in numbers over the past 10 years. There are reports that the kidney protects the heart…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Allograft Discard Risk Index for Heart Transplantation

    R. M. Reul1, A. A. Saleem1, C. N. Keller1, T. H. Malik1, J. A. Goss2, A. A. Rana2

    1Office of Student Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: The number of patients awaiting heart transplantation (HTx) substantially exceeds the number of donor hearts transplanted each year, yet nearly 70% of consented donor…
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