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2020 American Transplant Congress
Pancreas Transplants in Asian Recipients
A. Gruessner, C. Gruessner, S. Saggi, J. Renz
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Over the years, a change in patients receiving a pancreas transplant could be observed. While in the beginning the standard pancreas transplant recipient was…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Pregnancy in Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney (SPK) Transplant Recipients
S. Punjala¹, B. L. Phillips¹, P. Chowdhury¹, T. Pile¹, K. Harding², C. J. Callaghan¹, C. Nelson-Piercy², M. Drage¹
¹Department of Nephrology, Renal Transplant and Urology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: The chance of successful pregnancy is low in women with end stage renal disease. In women with type-1 DM, not only are the fertility…
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Single Center Experience with Allograft Pancreatectomy
V. Gurram, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, C. Jay, R. Stratta, D. Harriman
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, NC
*Purpose: Limited data on indications for and outcomes following allograft pancreatectomy (AP) exist. The purpose of this study was to analyze our single center experience…
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Induction of Delayed Immune Tolerance after Reconstructive Transplantation by Combining Donor Bone Marrow Transplantation and High-Dose Cyclophosphamide Treatment
Y. Guo¹, F. Messner¹, B. Oh¹, G. Furtmüller¹, W. Lee¹, D. Cooney¹, L. Luznik², G. Brandacher¹
¹Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Hematology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Immunosuppression avoidance by induction of immune tolerance represents a primary goal in the field of transplantation. Yet, success of this concept relies on extensive…
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A Single Center Experience of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Post Solid Organ Transplantation – “Benign Genetic Variants: Perhaps No More”
M. Khan, M. Anand, T. Kaur, S. Bumb, S. Shah, A. Govil, B. G. Abu Jawdeh
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a genetic-based thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) that is mediated by the activation of the alternative complement pathway. Heterozygous deletion…
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Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA is Not Influenced by Steroid Dosing in Heart Transplant Recipients
J. Teuteberg¹, S. Krim², M. Shullo³, S. Jimenez¹, H. Eisen⁴
¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, ³West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, ⁴Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA
*Purpose: Gene expression profiling (GEP) was recognized as an alternative to biopsy for rejection surveillance in the 2010 International society for Heart and Lung Transplantation…
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Effect of Increased Recipient Age on Solid-Organ Pancreas Transplantation Outcomes: A Systematic Review
J. E. Ling
Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Australia
*Purpose: Increased recipient age has been associated with poorer solid organ pancreas transplant (SOPTx) outcomes. We hypothesized that recipient age cut-offs in Australia and New…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Non-HLA Antibodies in Severe Post-Operative Thrombotic Microangiopathy among Kidney Transplant Recipients
R. Bonakdar, P. Serrano Rodriguez
University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: From August 2018 until July 2019, an alarming 6% of kidney transplant recipients at this transplant center had biopsy-proven thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) within 1…
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T Cell Dysfunction as Measured by Impaired Antigen Response is Associated with Infection and Frailty in Kidney Transplant Recipients
J. Schaenman, M. Rossetti, V. Groysberg, G. Sunga, E. Liang, S. Bunnapradist, E. Reed
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients are at risk for infection, especially the growing numbers of older patients. Our previous studies demonstrated that senescent and exhausted T…
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Evaluation of Pretransplant Serologies and Vaccination Rates in Kidney Transplant Candidates
S. Schneider, C. Truax, A. Carlson, B. Clark, B. Sirandas, L. Smith
Department of Pharmacy Services, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
*Purpose: Assessing serologic status presents opportunities to provide live vaccinations to solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates. This is especially important given the increased risk of…