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2020 American Transplant Congress
Community Affluence Impacts Patient Survival Post Liver Transplantation
D. Jorgensen, A. Humar, C. Hughes, M. Molinari, A. Ganoza, S. Ganesh, A. Duarte-Rojo, A. Tevar
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Liver transplantation is an effective treatment for patients with end stage liver disease with excellent patients and grafts long term outcomes. Many recipient disease…
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Supporting “The Decision Project:” Understanding Perceptions of Organ, Eye, and Tissue Donation among Baltimore City Community Members
M. Johnson¹, A. Saha¹, M. Waldram¹, I. Johnson², L. Price², A. Coleman², C. Alexander², D. Segev¹, M. Henderson¹
¹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ²The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, Halethorpe, MD
*Purpose: Using information provided by the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), it was found that the zip code 21205 in Baltimore City had one of…
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Using Personal Contact with Donors and Recipients to Bridge Disparities in Native American Organ Donation and Transplantation
Y. Kelly¹, J. Trompeta¹, J. Rawlings², T. Bongiovanni¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Yale, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Native Americans (NAs) are 3.5 times more likely to suffer from end-stage renal disease than White Americans, yet are 34% less likely to receive…
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Report of Organ Offers Linked with Instant Messaging Data Provides a Basis for Quality Improvement
E. Pahl
Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Thousands of viable organs are discarded every year with incorrect or inappropriate reasons for declination. One limitation on the accessibility of organ transplantation is…
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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…
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The Level of Plasm Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Kidney Transplant Patients with Severe Pneumonia
L. Liu¹, H. Liu², F. Liu², L. Shu², L. Peng¹
¹Xiangyang Hospital No. 2 of Central South University, Changsha, China, ²AlloDx, Shanghai; Suzhou, China
*Purpose: Pulmonary infection is one of the common complications after kidney transplantation. Donor-derived cell-free DNA (ddcfDNA) is a new biomarker to diagnose allograft injury. Currently,…
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Barriers for Kidney Transplant Evaluation among People Living with HIV and End-Stage Renal Disease in Mississippi
L. A. Shimose¹, M. X. Bueno Rios¹, J. Clark¹, A. Torres², D. Garcia-Anton², W. Cheungpasitporn², P. Vaitla², F. Cabeza-Rivera²
¹Infectious Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ²Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: The number of Kidney transplants (KTx) among people living with HIV (PLWH) who develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has been increasing in many transplant…
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The Importance of Annual Medicare Part D Plan Evaluation in Heart Transplantation
L. M. Lourenco
Pharmacy Services, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Medicare open enrollment period is from Oct 15 to Dec 7, annually. The purpose of this project was to objectively measure the benefit…
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Assessment of HEALTh LIteracy on MEdication ADheREnce and Graft Outcomes in KIdney Transplant Recipients (Hallmark)
M. Leung¹, A. Dhanda², S. Kwan³, A. Zienkiewicz³, E. Waters³, N. Wood³, L. Young³, C. Bannon³
¹Pharmacy, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Nephrology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: Upon successful kidney transplantation, many patients have difficulty adhering to their new immunosuppression medication regimens. Previous studies have established low health literacy to be…
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Empowering Patients to Self-Care Dialysis Previous to Kidney Transplantation Does Not Warrant Adherence to Immunosuppression
F. Ortiz¹, I. Helanterä²
¹Nephrology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ²Kidney and Liver Transplantation, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
*Purpose: Nonadherence to immunosuppression increases the risk of kidney graft loss. We hypothesized that patient education to self-care dialysis has a positive impact on adherence…