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2022 American Transplant Congress
Humoral Response After a Third Dose of Sars-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine in Transplant Recipients
A. E. Woolley, N. Sharma, G. Zhou, A. Kim, E. Ryan, M. Joyce, H. Goldberg, M. Givertz, M. Mehra, E. Woodcome, V. Durney, S. Marshall, K. Townsend, A. Coppolino, S. Tullius, S. Malek, H. Mallidi, L. Baden, A. Chandraker
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Prior studies demonstrated an increased immune response post-3rd COVID-19 vaccine dose when given 1-month post-2nd dose in solid organ transplant recipients (SOT). This study…
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Changes in Cold Ischemia Time and Transplantation Practices with the Concentric Model of Kidney Allocation
C. M. Puttarajappa¹, P. Sood¹, A. Tevar¹, V. Gunabushanam¹, S. Hariharan¹, S. Mohan²
¹University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Evaluate impact of the new concentric kidney allocation system (KAS250) on kidney utilization, allocation practices and cold ischemia time (CIT).*Methods: Using data from the…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Organs from Donors with Positive SARS-CoV-2 NAT+ Testing: A Report from the Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee
L. Danziger-Isakov¹, J. D. Goldman¹, A. Wooley¹, S. Pouch¹, A. Agarwal¹, G. Berry¹, K. Dunn¹, S. Ho¹, M. Kittleson¹, D. H. Lee¹, D. Levine¹, C. Marboe¹, G. Marklin¹, R. Razonable¹, S. Taimur¹, H. Te¹, C. Fox², C. Jett², S. Booker², D. Klassen², R. LaHoz¹
¹OPTN, Richmond, VA, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Decision to transplant organs from SARS-CoV-2 NAT+ donors(N+D) balances risk of donor-derived infection with the scarcity of available organs to meet the needs of…
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Barriers and Facilitators to Care for Patients with Failed Kidney Transplants
A. Huml¹, K. Berg², A. Perzynski², C. Sullivan², A. Sehgal²
¹Department of Kidney Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Population Health Research Institute, The MetroHealth System, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: To understand the barriers and facilitators to care for patients with failed kidney transplants from the perspective of providers.*Methods: Qualitative study employed focus groups…
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Rapid Formalin-Fixed Deceased Donor Kidney Biopsy Protocol – A Proof Of Concept
M. R. Marvin¹, G. Chen², A. Kotru¹, C. Koo¹, P. Sanghi³, M. Moritz⁴, J. Clarke⁴, R. Hasz⁴
¹Transplant, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, ²Pathology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, ³Transplant Nephrology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, ⁴Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Reducing kidney discard is a major priority for the transplant community. While frozen section biopsies are the current standard, they are fraught with technical…
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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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Incidence of Delayed Graft Function in Kidneys Recovered After Normothermic Regional Perfusion
L. James¹, M. D'Angelo¹, J. Carillo¹, J. C. Berger¹, D. E. Smith¹, N. Moazami¹, B. Lonze²
¹NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ²NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: The use of normothermic reperfusion (NRP) following donation after circulatory death (DCD) is an emerging strategy for organ procurement. NRP technique reestablishes circulatory blood…
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Patient Preferences for Waiting Time and Kidney Quality: A Discrete Choice Experiment
S. Mehrotra
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to elicit patient preferences involving tradeoffs between a lower quality kidney offered today and a higher quality, future…
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Implications of Accumulated Cold Time for US Kidney Transplantation Offer Acceptance
M. Barah¹, V. Kilambi², J. Friedewald¹, S. Mehrotra¹
¹Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, ²Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA
*Purpose: Reducing discard is a current focus in US transplantation of deceased donor kidneys. One cause for the discards is the avoidance of protracted cold…
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Site-Directed Mutagenesis as a Tool to Investigate Immunogenicity of HLA Epitopes for Humoral Alloreactivity
C. H. Maguire¹, P. Crivello², A. Tambur¹
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
*Purpose: Molecular mismatch load (MML) analysis has been a proposed approach to assess donor/recipient compatibility in support of organ allocation algorithms. While conceptually appealing, MML…