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2019 American Transplant Congress
EBV+ PTLD in the Modern Immunosuppression Era: Role of EBV Serology and DNAemia-Preliminary Data from CTOT-C06
O. M. Martinez¹, S. M. Krams¹, M. A. Robien², M. Lapasaran¹, S. D. Boyd¹, B. Armstrong³, C. Twist⁴, K. Weinberg¹, D. Gratzinger¹, B. Tan¹, M. Sever³, D. Ikle³, M. Brown², D. Bernstein¹, C. O. Esquivel¹
¹Stanford University Sch of Med, Stanford, CA, ²NIAID/NIH, Rockville, MD, ³Rho, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Roswell Park, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) remains a serious problem in the pediatric transplant population. The Clinical Trials of Organ Transplantation in Children (CTOT-C)-06 is an…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Specific Donor/Recipient HLA Disparities are Associated with Better Long-Term Kidney Allograft Survival among 4-, 5-, and 6-HLA (A/B/DR)-Mismatched Pairs
D. Bekbolsynov, H. Zhang, B. Mierzejewska, M. Rees, K. Xu, S. Stepkowski
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: The vast majority of deceased donor kidneys are allocated without any consideration for the HLA disparities, which may improve or worsen the survival the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Influential Yet Highly Variable Role of Biopsy Findings on Kidney Offer Acceptance Decisions: An Organ Offer Simulation Study
D. Stewart¹, J. Rosendale¹, H. McGehee¹, I. Hall², G. Gupta³, K. Reddy⁴, B. Kasiske⁵, K. Andreoni⁶, D. Klassen¹
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ³VCU, Richmond, VA, ⁴Mayo, Phoenix, AZ, ⁵HCMC, Minneapolis, MN, ⁶Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: The use of procurement biopsies (Bx) to assess kidney quality is controversial. ‘Biopsy findings’ is an often cited discard reason, yet the association between…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Rapidly Aging Population of Liver Transplant Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
J. B. Rubin, G. Cullaro, N. Mehta, J. C. Lai
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fastest rising cause of cancer-related mortality in the US and a leading indication for liver transplant (LT). Direct acting…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Simultaneous Pancreas kidney Transplantation to Kidney Transplantation Alone for Type 2 Diabetes with End Stage Renal Disease
Y. Fu, Z. Shen
Kidney&Pancreas Transplant, Tianjin First Center Hospital, Tianjin, China
*Purpose: To compare the clinic outcomes of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) with kidney transplantation alone (KTA) in Type 2 Diabetes patients with ESRD.*Methods: 97 type…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Targeting Syk Signaling in Myeloid Cells Protects against Liver Fibrosis and Hepatocarcinogenesis
A. Torres-Hernandez, W. Wang, G. Miller
Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: The purpose of our study was to evaluate the mechanistic role of Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (SYK) signaling on the fibrosis - hepatocarcinogenesis axis and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Willingness to Acquire Donor-Derived Hepatitis C Infection May Reduce Waitlist Mortality for Heart Transplant Candidates
B. E. Lonze, A. Reyentovich, N. Moazami, D. E. Smith, C. Gidea, R. A. Montgomery
NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: Hearts from deceased donors with hepatitis C infection (HCV+) are disproportionately discarded because most waitlist registrants are HCV negative (HCV-). For some with end-organ…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The First Human Organ Transported by Drone and Steps Forward to Large Scale Organ Drone Use in the USA
J. R. Scalea¹, M. Scassero², N. Wereley³
¹Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ²UAS Test Site, University of Maryland, California, MD, ³Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
*Purpose: Organ transportation has yet to be substantially innovated. Cold ischemia times (CIT) for kidneys are too long, and prolongation of CIT leads to delayed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Step-Wise Desensitization Using Rituximab&Bortezomib Combined with Antithymocyte Globulin for Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Candidates
H. Ohdan, K. Ide, M. Ohira, H. Tahara, Y. Tanaka
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
*Purpose: In highly HLA sensitized patients, both memory B and T cells responding to donor-specific HLA in addition to plasma cells secreting anti-HLA Abs are…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Trial of Allogeneic Islet Transplantation in the Treatment of Diabetes after Renal Transplantation
W. liang, M. Hu, G. Peng, D. Zhou, C. Zeng, W. Zhou, q. Ye, Z. Wang
Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases, Wuhan, China
*Purpose: Diabetes after renal transplantation is one of the most serious complications after renal transplantation. It has a serious impact to the survival of kidney…