Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 111 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Innate Lymphoid Cells Play a Key Role in Controlling Antimicrobial Defense in Intestinal Transplant Recipients.
J. Kaiser, C. Cosentino, A. Shukla, C. Desai, R. Girlanda, J. Hawksworth, C. Matsumoto, M. Zasloff, T. Fishbein, A. Kroemer.
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington DC.
A. Infectious complications are the leading cause of death early after intestinal transplantation (ITx). Etiologies underlying this remain unclear. Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) have very…
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Delays in the Live Kidney Donor Evaluation Process.
J. Leanza, K. Kumar, J. Tonascia, E. King, A. Massie, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
One of the barriers to live kidney donation (LKD) is successful completion of the evaluation process. While it is known that many potential donors (PDs)…
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Hepatic Hemodynamics (HD) and Portal Flow Modulation (PM): Tactical Use in Small for Size (SFS) Live Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT).
T. Mansour,¹ J. Pisa,¹ E. Przybyszewski,¹ J. Guarrera,¹ K. Tomoaki,¹ B. Samstein,¹ K. Halazun,² A. Griesemer,¹ J. Emond.¹
¹Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; ²Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York.
Objectives:Efforts to reduce the risk of donor hepatectomy have resulted in smaller grafts for transplantation. Grafts below 0.8% of recipient body weight (GW/RW), have been…
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HLA Class II and BK Virus Reactivation in Renal Transplant Recipients.
P. Shah,¹ K. Anderson,² M. Aubrey,² C. Roark,² B. Freed,² A. Wiseman.¹
¹Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO; ²Division of Immunology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO.
BK Viremia (BKV) and subsequent BK nephropathy are associated with renal graft loss. The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) region has been implicated in susceptibility to…
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Understanding the Drivers Behind an Early Post-KAS Rise in Delayed Graft Function (DGF) Rates.
D. Stewart, A. Kucheryavaya, D. Klassen.
UNOS, Richmond, VA.
Background: DGF among solitary deceased donor kidney transplants (tx) increased by 22% (p<0.0001) -- from 24.6% to 30.1% -- during the first 6 months of…
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P-Glycoprotein Function: Association with Race, Gender and Tacrolimus Pharmacokinetics.
K. Tornatore,^1,4 H. Minderman,² K. Attwood,³ K. O'Loughlin,² R. Venuto.⁴
¹Translational Pharmacology Research, School of Pharmacy, Buffalo; ²Flow Cytometry Laboratory, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo; ³Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Buffalo; ⁴Medicine, School of Medicine;UB, Buffalo.
Background: Long term allograft survival remains poorer in African American(AA) renal transplant recipients(RTR) compared to Caucasians(C) and may be due to racial differences in calcineurin…
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Outcomes Following Inguinal Hernia Repair in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
S. DiBrito, I. Olorundare, C. Landazabal, D. Segev, N. Dagher.
Transplant Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
It is assumed that kidney transplant (KT) recipients have more complications, longer length of stay (LOS) and higher hospital cost associated with general surgery procedures,…
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Early Post-Transplant Immunosuppression (IS) Withdrawal – Final Outcomes of the ITN030ST AWISH Study.
A. Shaked,¹ S. Feng,² J. Punch,³ J. Reyes,⁴ J. Levitsky,⁵ G. Klintmalm,⁶ H. Kopetskie,⁷ M. DesMarais,² A. Priore,⁸ N. Bridges,⁸ P. Sayre.²
¹UPenn, Philadelphia; ²UCSF, San Francisco; ³U Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁴U Washington, Seattle; ⁵Northwestern, Chicago; ⁶Baylor, Dallas; ⁷RhoFed, Chapel Hill; ⁸NIAID, Bethesda.
ITN030ST is a prospective randomized trial designed to determine the clinical benefit of early IS withdrawal in adult liver transplant (LT) recipients. Recipients did not…
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Impact of Proximity MELD/PELD Points on Liver Redistricting Scenarios.
S. Gentry,^1,2 J. Pyke,¹ D. Schladt,¹ J. Zeglin,¹ W. Kim,³ J. Lake,⁴ R. Hirose,⁵ D. Mulligan,⁶ A. Israni.¹
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ²United States Naval Academy, Annapolis; ³Stanford, Palo Alto; ⁴University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; ⁵Surgery, University of California, San Francisco; ⁶Surgery, Yale University, New Haven.
Background: To address geographic disparity in liver allocation, a new organ distribution system consisting of 4 or 8 districts has been proposed (Gentry, Am J…
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The “PHS Increased Risk” Label Is Associated with Non-Utilization of Hundreds of Organs Per Year.
M. Volk,¹ A. Wilk,² C. Wolfe,³ D. Kaul.⁴
¹Transplantation Institute, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA; ²United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ³Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University, Durham, NC; ⁴Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
The Public Health Service (PHS) guidelines use behavioral risk factors to designate certain organ donors as carrying increased risk for the transmission of hepatitis B,…