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2018 American Transplant Congress
Closing Pandora's Box: An Evidence Based Approach to Opioid-Tolerant Patients Following Transplantation. The Case for IV Methadone
A. Aljassem, L. Hall, S. Cohn, D. Bedi, M. Alsibae, K. Putchakayala, S. Tasleem, D. Samarapungavan, C. Carpenter, A. Koffron.
Department of Surgery, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, MI.
The purpose of this study is to explore the use of parenteral methadone in opioid-tolerant patients who are status-post transplantation. As an alternative to traditional…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Anterior Rectus Sheath Approach Resulted in No Difference in Wound Complication Rates in Obese versus Non-Obese Renal Transplant Recipients
S. King,² S. Hill,² L. Lipscomb,² A. Jones,² R. Jeffries,² J. Africa.¹
¹Glickman Institute, Cleveland Clinic - Charleston Area Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; ²Urology and Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV.
The anterior rectus sheath (ARS) approach is a modification of the conventional Kuss procedure for kidney transplant (KT). We have previously described the ARS approach…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Noninvasive Quantization of Intra-Renal Allograft C4d Deposition with Targeted Ultrasound Imaging
T. Liao,¹ Y. Zhang,¹ J. Ren,² H. Zheng,¹ H. Zhang,² X. Liu,¹ T. Yin,² Q. Sun.¹
¹Organ Transplantation Research Institute, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; ²Department of Medical Ultrasound, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) has emerged as the major cause of renal allograft dysfunction. C4d, a specific marker of AMR diagnosis, was strongly recommended for routine…
2018 American Transplant Congress
An Open-Label Proof-of-Principle Phase 2a Study to Evaluate Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Allogeneic Organ Transplant Tolerance (ASCOTT)
A. Chruscinski,¹ H. Atkins,² M. Macarthur,¹ C. Anne Marie,² D. Grant,¹ C. Bredsen,² E. Renner,¹ L. Lilly,¹ N. Selzner,¹ O. Adeyi,¹ R. Smith,¹ S. Moshkelgosha,¹ A. Humar,¹ S. Juvet,¹ G. Levy.¹
¹Multi-Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Background: Long-term survival of recipients of solid organ transplants is hampered by chronic rejection, disease recurrence and immunosuppression-induced toxicity. Self-tolerance is re-established after autologous hematopoietic…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma beyond UCSF Criteria: Can We Achieve a Modest Long-Term Survival? A Single Center Retrospective Analysis of Using Extended Criteria
A. Thorat, L.-B. Jeng, S.-C. Hsu, C.-C. Yeh, T.-H. Chen, H.-R. Yang, K.-S. Poon, P.-C. Li.
Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Milan's criteria were universally validated for LT in HCC patients and, were accepted as allocation criteria of UNOS in 2001 & Eurotransplantation in 2006. However,…
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Outcomes of Donation after Cardiac Death Liver Grafts from Donors ≥ 50 Years of Age: A Multi-Center Analysis
K. P. Croome,¹ A. K. Mathur,³ D. D. Lee,¹ A. A. Moss,³ C. B. Rosen,² J. K. Heimbach,² C. B. Taner.¹
¹Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL; ²Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN; ³Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ.
Introduction:As the population in the United States continues to age, an increase in the number of potential DCD donors with advanced chronological age can be…
2018 American Transplant Congress
A High Abdominal Aortic Calcification Score by Dual X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) is Associated with Cardiovascular Events after Kidney Transplantation
S. Benjamens,^1,2 R. A. Pol,¹ A. W. Glaudemans,² I. Wieringa,³ S. P. Berger,³ S. J. Bakker,³ R. H. Slart.²
¹Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Medical Imaging Center, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands; ³Nephrology, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands.
Introduction: It is unknown whether aortic calcification is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular events in renal transplant recipients. Therefore, this study focused on the…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Patients with CPRA>99.95% Likely to Be Offered Deceased Donor Kidneys
R. Parsons, S. Bumb, H. Decker, R. Bray, H. Gebel.
Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA.
The implementation of the new kidney allocation system and priority of kidneys for cPRA=100% subjects revealed a hierarchy difference in allocation to patients with cPRA=99.45%-100%.…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Hypothermic Machine Perfusion Utilization and Clinical Outcomes for Deceased-Donor Kidneys
V. Krishnamoorthy,¹ S. Wunsch,² K. O'Connor,² M. Souter.³
¹Anesthesiology, Duke University, Durham, NC; ²LifeCenter Northwest, Bellevue, WA; ³Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Introduction:Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) has been shown to be an effective method for preserving kidney allografts from deceased donors (1), but data suggests that low-risk…
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Bone Marrow Derived Myeloid Suppressor Cell (BM-MDSCs) Prolongs the Graft Survival in Murine Heart Transplantation
K. Uchida, K. Fujimoto, K. Takeda, H. Bashuda, E. Yin, K. Okumura.
Atopy(Allergy) Research Center, Juntento University, Tokyo, Japan.
Purpose: To investigate the impact of BM-MDSCs on murine heart transplantationMaterial and Methods:Bone marrow cells were harvested and cultured with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and…