Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 158 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Prospective Randomized Controlled Study Evaluating the Relationship Between Electronic Adherence Data and Tacrolimus Concentration Data.
B. Kane,¹ M. Lockwood,¹ L. Potter,¹ L. Lourenco,¹ A. Bodzin,¹ D. Covington,² K. Mayer,³ J. Millis.¹
¹University of Chicago Transplant Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Clinical Research, Innovation Clinical Research, LLC, Tucson, AZ; ³R&D, SIMpill, LLC, Madison, WI.
Purpose: The SIMpill® Medication Adherence System (MAS) is being evaluated in transplant recipients in a prospective 3-year study. The MAS captures patient medication adherence data…
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Liver Graft Rejuvenation Prior to Transplantation: A Bench-to-Bedside Approach.
A. Zarrinpar,¹ B. Ke,¹ H. Ji,¹ E. Reed,² R. Busuttil,¹ J. Kupiec-Weglinski.¹
¹Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Translant Center, Los Angeles, CA; ²Pathology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
To address the shortage of organs for transplantation many use “marginal” livers, which are particularly susceptible to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI). We have taken a two-pronged…
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Creation of a Small Animal Model of Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion (EVNP) for Treatment of Kidney Ischemia-Reperfusion (I/R) Injury.
Y. Smolin, I. Palma, C. Pivetti, S. Kabagambe, J. Woloszyn, Y. Chen, T. Boyer, I. Palma, J. Sageshima, C. Santhanakrishnan, R. Perez.
Department of Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.
Purpose: Recent studies have suggested that EVNP may be utilized to assess and repair marginal donor organs subjected to severe I/R injury. The lack of…
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Prolonged Cold Ischemia Time Negatively Impacts Graft and Recipient Survival in a Murine Orthotopic Hindlimb Transplant Model.
N. Datta, S. Devaney, A. Allen, R. Busuttil, K. Azari, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.
Department of Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: The safe maximum cold preservation time remains unknown in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA), yet is of critical clinical significance. VCAs with a large muscular…
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Living Kidney Donor Preferences: A Novel Use of a Visual Instrument to Quantify ESRD Risk Acceptance.
C. Thiessen,¹ J. Gannon,¹ D. Dobosz,¹ S. Li,¹ D. Gray,² A. Mussell,² K. Kennedy,³ L. Skrip,¹ E. Gordon,³ P. Reese,² S. Kulkarni.¹
¹Yale U, New Haven; ²U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia; ³Northwestern U, Chicago.
BackgroundGiven new data about the estimated lifetime risk of ESRD among living kidney donors (LKD) (Muzaale 2014), we elicited their willingness to accept the risk…
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Low-Pressure Pneumoperitoneum in Living Kidney Donors: An Age-Dependent Analysis of Recipient Outcomes.
S. Kulkarni,¹ S. Douglas,² E. Cohen,¹ S. Swift,¹ I. Hall.²
¹Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; ²Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Purpose: Implementation of low-pressure laparoscopy may be facilitated by the use of valveless, recirculating trocar systems that have less intra-abdominal pressure variability, providing adequate surgical…
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Hydrogen Sulfide Supplementation Helps Mitigate Effects of Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in a Murine Model of Donation After Cardiac Death Renal Transplantation.
J. Grewal,¹ I. Lobb,¹ M. Saha,² J. Jiang,² A. Haig,¹ A. Sener.^1,2
¹Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; ²Matthew Mailing Centre for Translational Transplant Studies, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada.
Donation after cardiac death(DCD) renal grafts experience a combination of prolonged warm and cold ischemia leading to greater ischemia reperfusion injury(IRI) that results in higher…
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Imminent Death Donation: Potential Effects on Organ Donation Numbers and Clinical Outcomes.
V. Potluri,¹ S. Nazarian,² M. Levine,² P. Reese.³
¹Internal Medicine, Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood; ²Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ³Renal Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Attempts at donation after cardiac death (DCD) lead to organ transplantation only among 70% of eligible DCDs. Imminent death donation (IDD) is ante-mortem donation of…
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Cholangioscopy in Liver Transplant Recipients.
U. Agbim,¹ E. Verna,¹ R. Brown, Jr,² A. Sethi.¹
¹Columbia University, New York; ²Cornell University, New York.
BackgroundBiliary complications in the post-liver transplant population are common and are a source of significant morbidity, which are preferably managed, if technically feasible, by endoscopic…
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Incidence of and Risk Assessment for Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes Following Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review.
M. Konerman,¹ D. Fritze,² R. Weinberg,³ E. Spengler,¹ C. Sonnenday,² P. Sharma.¹
¹Hepatology, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Transplantation Surgery, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ³Cardiology, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Purpose: Cardiovascular (CV) events remain a major source of morbidity and mortality following liver transplantation (LT). This review evaluates the incidence of and risk assessment…