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2020 American Transplant Congress
Value of dd-cfDNA When Considering Recipient Ethnicity to Further to Help Risk Stratify Transplant Recipients
A. Langone¹, B. Fischbach², D. Cohen³
¹Vanderbilt Health, Nashville, TN, ²Baylor Scott & White Health, Fort Worth, TX, ³Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Within the modern era of kidney transplantation, African American (AA) transplant recipients continue to experience disproportionately higher rates of allograft loss. A combination of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Use of dd-cfDNA as a Predictive Tool for Future Proteinuria
S. Jordan¹, P. Sood², J. Bromberg³, D. Brennan⁴
¹Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ⁴The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Most allografts with proteinuria >1500 mg/dL have new glomerular pathology. In contrast, lower levels of proteinuria are generally associated with non-glomerular, nonspecific histologic changes.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ion AmpliSeq RNA Expression Panel Evaluated by Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Can Detect Genes in Human Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Kidney Biopsies to Predict T Cell and Antibody Mediated Rejection in Renal Allografts
P. Ruiz¹, E. Margolles-Clark¹, G. Guerra², A. Mattiazzi², M. Ortigosa-Goggins², G. Ciancio¹, L. Chen¹, G. Burke¹
¹Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL, ²University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Optimization of effective anti-rejection therapies to prevent allograft rejection and to minimize drug toxicity may be aided by utilizing in situ biomarkers for detection…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Organ Donor Infections on Kidney Transplant Recipient Outcomes
M. Santarossa¹, C. Muran², S. Sanchez², L. Heinrich², J. Yoo³, F. Albarillo¹, S. Akkina³, N. Clark¹, G. Reid¹
¹Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, ²Department of Pharmacy, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, ³Department of Medicine, Division of Transplant Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
*Purpose: Donor-derived infections can lead to significant morbidity and mortality in organ transplant recipients. There is variability by center on treatment of positive donor cultures…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Green Channel of Human Organ Transport (GCHOT) Improved the Utilization Rate of Chinese Citizens’ Donated Lungs: A Single-Center Data Analysis
J. Chen, X. Li, C. Hu, F. Liu
Wuxi Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi, China
*Purpose: Lung transplantation in China has been developing for over forty years. Wuxi lung transplant center has the largest lung transplant (LT) volume nationwide. It…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Remote Steroid Wean is Safe When Compared to Early Wean in Heart Transplant Recipients
B. C. Salgado, J. Krisl, E. A. Graviss, D. T. Nguyen, A. Bhimaraj, A. Guha
Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure and Transplant, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The risks and benefits of remote steroid wean in heart transplant recipients is unknown. We compared outcomes in patients undergoing early and remote steroid…
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…
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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
Post Heart Transplant Outcomes for Patients with Cardiac Sarcoidosis
G. S. Liu¹, E. C. DePasquale¹, A. M. Wolfson², R. R. Chand³, P. Banankhah¹, J. Nattiv¹, A. D. Salimbangon⁴, P. A. Genyk¹, P. A. Kingsford¹, J. P. Li¹, D. Vucicevic⁵, K. Pandya¹, J. Rahman¹, M. Fong¹, A. S. Vaidya¹
¹Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ, ³Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ
*Purpose: Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is a known etiology of end-stage dilated, hypertrophic, or arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies requiring heart transplantation (HT). We sought to evaluate the long-term…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Importance of Caveolin-1 Immunohistochemical Staining for BK Nephropathy Seen after Kidney Transplantation
E. Arpali¹, E. Sunnetcioglu², Y. Özlük², A. Turkmen³, F. S. Oğuz¹
¹Medical Biology, Istanbul University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Pathology, Istanbul University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Nephrology, Istanbul University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
*Purpose: To understand the importance of molecular expression of Caveolin-1 in BKV nephropathy seen after kidney transplantion.*Methods: The kidney transplant patients who had a graft…