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2020 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury And Chronic Kidney Disease After Lung Transplantation: Incidence And Risk Factors In A Large Single-center Cohort
D. Abdelwahab, R. Marron, Z. Choudhry, I. Lee, J. Wu, J. Brown
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common complication after lung transplant. The reported incidence in small studies varies ranges from10-90%. Furthermore, data on risk…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant: – The Effects of Early Steroid Withdrawal, Donor and Recipient Variables on Patient Survival
D. Kloda¹, M. McLeod², M. Romine¹, J. Ladowski², J. Locke¹, C. Young¹
¹Department of Surgery - Division of Transplantation, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ²Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) improves survival in type I diabetic patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Corticosteroids have traditionally been an integral component…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Results of Pancreas Transplantation in Diabetic Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease Older Than 50 Years
E. Montagud-Marrahi¹, A. Molina², A. Pané³, M. Ramirez-Bajo⁴, A. Amor³, E. Esmatjes³, J. Ferrer⁵, F. Diekmann¹, P. Ventura-Aguiar¹
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Servei de Nefrologia i Trasplantament Renal, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Endocrinology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Laboratori Experimental de Nefrologia I Trasplantament (LENIT), CRB CELLEX, Fundació Clínic, IDIBAP, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Hepatobiliopancreatic and Liver Transplant Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Improvement of care in type 1 diabetes mellitus, with the optimization of patient access to insulins of variable action, has led to macro- and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Vira-ome: A Tool for an Unbiased Plasma Virome Analysis of SOT Recipients from Cell-Free DNA Sequences
R. Sinha, E. Bixler, J. Grantham, M. Altrich, S. Kleiboeker
R&D, Viracor-Eurofins, Lee's Summit, MO
*Purpose: Blood virome of healthy individuals is frequently predominated by member of families such as Herpesvirus, Anellovirus and Polyomaviridae. The viral load of commensal species…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Amiodarone Use in Lung Transplant Recipients with New Onset Atrial Arrhythmias
E. Klipsch¹, R. Rachwan², I. KutKut³, D. Roe², C. Hage², T. Hathaway¹, R. S. Mangus²
¹Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ²IU Health, Indianapolis, IN, ³New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: Atrial arrhythmias occur in 16-46% of patients after lung transplant, and most of these are atrial fibrillation or flutter. Standard therapy is described as…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Social Needs, Transplant Readiness, and Wait List Awareness
A. Huml, J. Sedor, S. Jolly, J. Schold, H. Rincon-Choles, C. Modlin, E. Poggio, D. Reissner, D. Camino, K. Spates-Harden, D. Ranch, J. O'Toole
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Social support, transportation, finances, and adherence are often cited as barriers to kidney transplant. We sought to understand how self-reported social needs (SN) impacts…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of the Mitra Microsampling Device for TTV Measurement in Human Whole Blood of Lung Transplant Recipients
J. Mühlbacher¹, B. Lickefett¹, K. Doberer², B. Reiter³, S. Aberle⁴, G. Bond², P. Jaksch¹
¹Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ³Clinical Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁴Department of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*Purpose: The apathogenic Torque Teno Virus (TTV) is highly prevalent among solid organ transplant recipients and mirrors the immunocompetence of its host. qPCR based measurement…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transpulmonary Gradient as a Predictor for Outcomes after Single Lung Transplantation in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
A. Madde¹, E. Chan², J. Ryan², P. Reck Dos Santos², M. Morrell³, J. Luketich², P. Sanchez²
¹University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ²UPMC Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA, ³UPMC Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: End stage lung disease is commonly associated with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). In a donor restrictive environment, offering patients single over double lung transplants…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Alemtuzumab Induction on Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients
M. Plazak¹, X. Gao², S. Gale², B. Reed², R. Madathil¹, S. Hammad¹, B. Ravichandran¹
¹University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is impacted by acute rejection and ultimately limits long-term survival of orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) recipients, thus there is interest…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Cytomegalovirus Preemptive Monitoring Conversion and the Use of a Preemptive Threshold after Solid Organ Transplant
C. Wong, M. Jorgenson, J. Descourouez, C. Saddler, J. Smith, D. Mandelbrot
UWHC, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in solid organ transplant (SOT) is associated with negative graft and patient outcomes. Prophylactic agents of choice have substantial cytotoxicity, and patients…