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2022 American Transplant Congress
Dietary Sodium Intake And Blood Pressure In Living Kidney Donors (SPLID): Rationale And Design Of A Pilot Single-center Crossover Single-blind Randomized Controlled Trial
E. Tantisattamo¹, U. G. Reddy¹, A. J. Ferrey¹, H. Ichii², D. C. Dafoe², H. Moradi¹, C. M. Rhee¹, K. Kalantar-Zadeh¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA, ²Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA
*Purpose: Since living kidney donors(LKD) are generally healthy and non-hypertensive individuals, non-pharmacologic interventions are likely to be an acceptable and practical approach to preventing hypertension(HTN).…
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Enhancing Early Nerve Regeneration from Reconstruction of a Segmental Nerve Injury with Polyethylene Glycol
A. Bernal¹, C. Hinshaw¹, J. Hinshaw¹, C. Yang², S. Margaux¹, W. Zhang¹, J. Nuelle¹, C. Sabbag¹, G. Bittner², J. Shores³, E. Weitzel¹, J. Alderete¹
¹RESTOR FUSE Nerve Reconstruction Consortium, US Army Institute of Surgical Research/59th MDW, San Antonio, TX, ²University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, ³John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Despite advancements in understanding and treating peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs), restoration of lost motor and sensory functions remain poor using current methods of clinical…
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Liver Transplantation for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (psc): Experience from the Last Three Decades
J. Zhu¹, D. Lim¹, L. James¹, E. Yoshida², K. Peltekian¹
¹Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: In liver transplantation (LT) for PSC, pre-transplant colectomy may lower the risk of PSC recurrence (rPSC), and well-controlled or lack of IBD may protect…
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Stem Cell Donor-Derived CPRA Better Reflects Sensitization Than Current CPRA
K. Lindblad¹, C. Murphey², P. Lalli³, J. Lunz⁴, L. Gragert⁵
¹UNOS, Richmnd, VA, ²Southwest Immunodiagnostics, Inc., San Antonio, TX, ³Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, ⁴LifeLink Foundation Transplant Immunology Lab, Tampa, FL, ⁵Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: The OPTN Histocompatibility Committee proposes replacing the current calculated panel reactive antibody (CPRA), based on HLA haplotype frequencies from ~14,000 deceased kidney donors, with…
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Post-Kidney Transplant Body Mass Index Trajectories Are Associated with Graft Loss and Mortality
Y. Liu¹, V. Bendersky¹, X. Chen¹, M. Harhay², D. Segev¹, M. McAdams-DeMarco¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Early post-kidney transplantation (KT) changes in physiology, medications, and health stressors likely impact body mass index (BMI). Hence, we sought to estimate trajectories of…
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Novel Biopsy-Based Clinical Phenotype Clustering to Predict Kidney Transplant Outcomes
A. Ahmed¹, L. Allegretti², C. Rebello³, B. Kinsella³, K. Guo³, S. Park⁴, J. Friedewald³
¹Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL, ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ³Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Transplant Nephrology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to define novel clinical phenotypes based on biopsy results to enhance biomarker discovery.*Methods: Retrospective analysis of kidney biopsy…
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Impact of Delayed Graft Function in Donation After Circulatory Death Kidney Transplantation
J. Mello Offerni¹, H. Brar¹, D. Lee¹, M. Levine², M. Mandurah¹, S. Rim¹, A. Sener¹, P. Luke¹
¹Urology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ²Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) has been associated with higher rates of delayed graft function (DGF) when compared to donation after brain death (DBD).…
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Dual Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants: Maximizing Utilization of Suboptimal Kidneys
S. Nagaraju, S. Vaishnav, K. Boggs, T. Cook, A. Jones, J. B. Africa
Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV
*Purpose: To demonstrate that dual transplant of marginal kidneys is an underutilized strategy to minimize discard rates and mitigate organ shortage.*Methods: We compared dual kidney…
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Bioink Based on the DECM for 3D-Bioprinting of Bionic Pancreas – First Results of Animal
M. Klak¹, K. Kosowska¹, T. Bryniarski¹, I. Lojszczyk¹, T. Dobrzanski², G. Tymicki¹, A. Filip¹, A. A. Szczepankiewicz³, R. Olkowski⁴, A. Kosowska⁴, A. Berman¹, A. Kaminski⁴, M. Wszola¹
¹Foundation of Research and Science Development, Warsaw, Poland, ²Polbionica LTD, Warsaw, Poland, ³Institute of Experimental Biology M. Nencki PAN, Warsaw, Poland, ⁴Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
*Purpose: Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving activities based on two interrelated areas: developing new methods to repair, regenerate and replace damaged tissues and…
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Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Testing in Kidney Transplantation: Do One-Month Values Have Any Prognostic Significance?
B. K. Sharda¹, M. Garner¹, A. Farney¹, G. Orlando², J. Rogers², C. Jay³, A. Daniel¹, A. Guiterrez¹, N. Sakhovskaya¹, R. Stratta¹
¹ATRIUM HEALTH Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, ²Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, ³Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Plasma-based donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) assays have been proposed as an alternative to percutaneous renal allograft biopsy which is the current gold standard for…