2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Kidney Allocation Change on Low Volume Kidney Transplant Centers
*Purpose: Effective March 15, 2021, the OPTN launched a new policy for matching kidney and pancreas transplant candidates with organs from deceased donors. The new…2022 American Transplant Congress
Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Antibody in Pediatric Abdominal Organ Transplant: Survey of Clinical Practice in the United States
University Health Transplant Institute, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: Some studies correlate Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor (AT1R) antibodies (Ab) with the development of rejection, vascular complications, and allograft dysfunction in pediatric solid…2022 American Transplant Congress
Low-Quality Kidney Allograft Use in Kidney Transplantation is Associated with a Prolonged Post-Transplant Length of Stay
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of low-quality kidney allografts on recipient hospital length of stay following transplant using five…2022 American Transplant Congress
Inferior Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Young Adults Transplanted as Children
UAB School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Adolescence (age 13-17 years) has been identified as a high-risk age interval for pediatric kidney transplant recipients, with accelerated rates of late acute rejection…2022 American Transplant Congress
Invasive Fungal Infections Associated with COVID-19 Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Invasive fungal infection (IFI) complicating Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has been increasingly recognized. IFI is a common opportunistic infection in solid organ transplant…2022 American Transplant Congress
Graft and Patient Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Tourism: A Single-Center Experience
*Purpose: The expanding supply-demand mismatch between organs available for transplantation and patients in need led to the growth of transplant tourism. In our study, we…2022 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Frailty Syndrome on Humoral Response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccines in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Advanced age is associated with impaired humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in kidney transplant recipients (KTR), however mechanisms are poorly understood. Frailty…2022 American Transplant Congress
A Successful Expansion of Donor Liver Supply is Feasible with the Selective Use of Older DCD Livers
Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: DCD are a key way to expand the donor pool, yet many centers are hesitant about using anything but the most favorable DCD allografts,…2022 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation in the United States
Baylor University Medical Center/Baylor Simmons Transplant Institute, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: With the shortage of organs for liver transplantation (LT), different solutions have been proposed to expand the donor pool: utilization of extended criteria organs,…2022 American Transplant Congress
Use of Belatacept in Non-Compliant Adolescent Patients
1Nemours Children's Health, Wilmington, DE, 2Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: Adolescents are at high risk for kidney transplant rejection due to non-compliance. While intravenous (IV) maintenance medications are FDA approved for adults, there is…
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