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2022 American Transplant Congress
Decellularized Human Pancreatic Extracellular Matrix-Based Physiomimetic Microenvironment for Human Islet Culture
A. Asthana¹, D. Chaimov¹, R. Tamburrini², S. J. Walker³, G. Orlando¹
¹Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ²University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, ³Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Maintenance of human islet viability and function ex vivo can be a significant bottleneck for both regenerative medicine as well as tissue engineering applications.…
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Superoxide in Cardiac Allografts from Donors After Circulatory Death
M. Urban¹, T. Bruett², K. F. Duncan¹, N. W. Markin³, M. M. Chacon³, M. C. Zimmerman⁴
¹Department of Surgery. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²College of Medicine. Department of Cellular and Integtrative Physiology., University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁴Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: Quality of cardiac allografts from donors after circulatory death (DCD) is adversely impacted by warm ischemia and subsequent reperfusion during organ resuscitation. Post-transplant myocardial…
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Immunosuppressant Medications Use in Patients with Transplant Failure: A Canadian Multi-Centre Prospective Study
G. Knoll¹, M. Chassé², D. Fergusson³, A. A. House⁴, O. Johnston⁵, R. Mainra⁶, D. Baran⁷, D. Treleaven⁸, l. senecal⁹, L. Tibbles¹⁰, M. Hebert¹¹, M. Karpinski¹², T. Campbell¹³, T. Ramsay¹⁴, J. Kim¹⁵, I. Houde¹⁶, C. White¹⁷, J. Perl¹⁵, P. Karnabi¹⁸, J. Gill⁵
¹Nephrology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ²University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴Nephrology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ⁵Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶Nephrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁷Nephrology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁸Nephrology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁹Nephrology, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰Nephrology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ¹¹Nephrology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹²Nephrology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ¹³University of Alberta, Alberta, AB, Canada, ¹⁴Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ¹⁵University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁶Laval University, Que´bec, QC, Canada, ¹⁷Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, ¹⁸Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
*Purpose: This prospective study determined the association of immunosuppressant medication use with the outcomes of death, hospitalized infection, rejection of the failed allograft, and panel…
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Six-Month Outcomes Among Lung Transplant Patients with COVID-19
L. D. Mahan, J. Rose, M. Mohanka, A. Banga
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: There is limited data on the outcomes beyond the acute illness among lung transplant (LT) patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The current study…
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Infection Impacts dd-cfDNA in Lung Transplant Recipients
D. Levine¹, C. Giner¹, C. Pham², R. Woodward², A. Roux³
¹University of Texas Health System San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ²CareDX, South San Francisco, CA, ³Pneumology, Adult CF Center and Lung Transplantation Department, Foch Hospital, Suresnes, France
*Purpose: Infection is the leading cause of death within 1 year post lung transplant. Graft injury secondary to infection is affected by both source and…
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Degree of Pre-Liver Transplant Immune Dysfunction Correlates with Post-Transplant Cancer Recurrence
G. S. Prakash¹, G. G. Panayotova¹, S. Simonishvili¹, Y. Qin¹, L. Jin¹, T. Ayorinde¹, L. J. Minze², F. Paterno¹, L. Brown¹, A. Amin¹, D. Liu¹, R. Ghobrial², J. V. Guarrera¹, K. E. Lunsford¹
¹Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Despite stringent selection criteria for liver transplant (LT) in patients with liver-limited malignancy, post-transplant cancer recurrence remains problematic. We have previously identified a pre-LT…
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“ABO-Adjusted CPRA”: A Unified Metric for Immunologic Compatibility in Kidney Transplantation
L. Gragert¹, M. Kadatz², J. Alcorn³, D. Stewart³, D. Chang², J. Gill², R. Liwski⁴, H. Gebel⁵, E. Kransdorf⁶, J. Gill², J. Lan²
¹Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³UNOS, Richmond, VA, ⁴Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁵Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁶Cedars-Sinai, Beverly Hills, CA
*Purpose: Implementation of the kidney allocation system in 2014 greatly reduced access disparity due to HLA sensitization. To address persistent disparities among both candidate cPRA…
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Development and Validation of a Kidney Transplant-Specific Measure of Treatment Burden
E. Lorenz¹, T. Petterson¹, I. Zaniletti¹, K. Lackore¹, B. Johnson¹, M. Mai², S. Nair³, A. Bentall¹, K. Yost¹, D. Eton¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
*Purpose: Treatment burden refers to the work involved in managing one’s health and its impact on well-being. Treatment burden has been associated with nonadherence and…
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Perfusate Il-6 Levels During Liver Nmp Are Predictive For Hemodynamic Response And Catecholamine Demand After Reperfusion In The Recipient
A. Weissenbacher¹, S. Mathis², B. Cardini¹, C. Bogensperger¹, G. Putzer², L. Gasteiger², T. Resch¹, R. Oberhuber¹, D. Öfner¹, T. Hell³, J. Martini², S. Schneeberger¹
¹Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ²Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ³Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
*Purpose: Normothermic liver preservation (NMP) has become a clinical routine at several transplant centres. Reperfusion-syndrome occurs less often in recipients of NMP-livers compared to cold…
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Lung Transplant Recipients with Sars-cov2 Infection and Bnt162b2 Vaccination Induce Circulating Exosomes with Spike Protein S2 Capable of Inducing Immune Responses to Sars0-cov2 in Mice
S. Bansal¹, B. Tiffany¹, T. Fleming¹, S. Perincheri², M. Smith¹, R. Bremner¹, T. Mohanakumar¹
¹St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Exosomes are small vesicles which are released by cells into body fluids. We have demonstrated the presence of circulating exosomes with viral antigens in…