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2021 American Transplant Congress
Incidentally Detected Malignancies in Lung Explants: Single Center Case Series
D. Razia, A. Arjuna, L. Schaheen, J. Huang, M. Smith, R. Bremner, R. Walia
Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Thoracic malignancies are difficult to prospectively diagnose in patients with end-stage lung disease due to complex radiologic features. We present a series of lung…
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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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Monoclonal Antibodies for Covid-19 in Patients with Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
L. Hasan¹, H. Hardgrave², T. Osborn³, R. Dare¹, L. Burdine⁴, E. Giorgakis⁴, J. Rico¹
¹Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ²University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ³Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ⁴Transplant surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
*Purpose: The FDA has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in patients at risk for…
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Dialysis Staff-Reported Impact of the Early Covid-19 Pandemic on Kidney Transplant Referrals and Evaluations
A. Perez¹, S. Retzloff¹, T. Browne², A. Cruz³, S. Wright³, S. Pastan⁴, R. Patzer¹
¹Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, ³IPRO ESRD Network of the South Atlantic, Morrisville, NC, ⁴Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: COVID-19 has drastically impacted healthcare systems since its declaration as a pandemic in March 2020. Evidence of this impact persists among solid organ transplant…
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Wound Infection After Kidney Transplantation: A Single Center Study
A. Demirag, J. Oberholzer, A. Agarwal, B. Rawashdeh, E. McCraken, K. Brayman
Transplantation, University of Virginia Medical Cener, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Wound complications (WC) following kidney transplantation (KTx) consume valuable resources and may be associated with inferior short and long term graft outcomes. Known risk…
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Segmental Susceptibility of Intestinal Stem Cells to Cold Storage Preservation Injury in a Porcine Model
E. K. Ludwig¹, N. Abraham², D. Sudan², A. Barbas², C. Schaaf¹, J. Freund¹, A. S. Stewart¹, B. Veerasammy¹, L. M. Gonzalez¹
¹North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, ²Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Cold storage (CS) is the current gold standard preservation method for small bowel (SB) prior to transplantation. However, CS can cause epithelial detachment, sloughing,…
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A Multi-institutional Study of Renal Outcomes in Uterus Transplantation
D. Sawinski¹, L. Johannesson², J. Kristen³, J. Fronek³, P. Porrett⁴
¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Pregnancy and calcineurin inhibitor-based immunosuppression represent potential renal stressors for uterus transplant (UTx) recipients, many of whom have Mayer-Rokitanksy-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome and associated renal…
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Outcomes of Liver Transplantation for Combined Hepatocellular Cholangiocarcinoma: A Single-center Experience
Y. Liu¹, C. Hanlon¹, S. Zhou¹, D. Toy¹, K. King², K. Zhou³, J. Kahn³, L. Yuan³
¹Internal Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Radiology, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Internal Medicine - Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma (cHCC-CCA) is a hepatic tumor that exhibits histological features of both hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). cHCC-CCA is often diagnosed…
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Assessing the Accuracy of the Lung Allocation Score
N. Dussault¹, W. Parker¹, R. Jablonski¹, E. Garrity¹, M. Churpek²
¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The Lung Allocation Score (LAS) relies on the performance of two cox proportional hazards models that estimate waitlist and post-transplant survival. These models were…
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NASH-Related HCC is Associated with Lower Rates of Post-Transplant HCC Recurrence: A Large Database Analysis
P. J. Altshuler, R. Lamm, K. Patel, H. Dang, O. Shaheen, A. P. Shah, J. Glorioso, C. G. Ramirez, A. M. Frank, W. R. Maley, A. S. Bodzin
Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: As incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) increase, NASH-related HCC is an increasingly common transplant indication. Large-scale studies evaluating transplantation for…