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  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Protocol for Health Information Exchange Living Donor Cohort Discovery.

    M. Henderson,1 A. Roberts,2 A. Massie,3 D. Segev,3 W. Goggins,1 C. Stone,1 B. Dixon.1,2

    1Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; 2Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, IN; 3Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

    Health information exchange (HIE) is the sharing of clinical and administrative data across the boundaries of health care institutions, health data, repositories, and states that…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    A Novel Intra-Abdominal Cooling System Prevents Graft Warming During Implantation for Robotic-Assisted Renal Transplantation.

    R. Meier, M. Hagen, C. Joliat, J.-B. Buchs, A. Nastasi, R. Ruttimann, F. Lazeyras, P. Morel, L. Bühler.

    Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland.

    Background and objectiveRobotic kidney transplantation is minimal invasive and leads to decreased surgical site infection. In this stetting, warm ischemia time remains a valid concern.…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Preimplant Donor Histology Does Not Improve Discrimination of 5 Year Kidney Allograft Outcomes.

    C. Traynor,1 T. Dorman,2 D. de Freitus,2 P. Conlon,2 C. O'Seaghdha.2

    1Nephrology, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC; 2Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

    Kidney transplantation remains the best treatment option for End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) and the most cost efficient method of renal replacement therapy. However, there is…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Arterial and Venous Conduits for Vessel Reconstruction in Liver Transplantation.

    J. Tan,1 G. Oniscu.2

    1University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

    Background: The use of hepatic artery (HA) and portal vein (PV) conduits is a recognised alternative technique in vessel reconstruction during liver transplantation. The hepatic…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Caval Replacement versus Piggyback Liver Transplantation: The Toronto Experience.

    A. Barbas, M. Dib, N. Goldaracena, M. Marquez, G. Sapisochin, D. Al-Adra, S. McCluskey, I. McGilvray.

    General Surgery, Multi-Organ Transplant, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Background:Caval replacement (CR) and piggyback (PB) techniques for deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) each have inherent advantages and disadvantages with no consensus on the optimal…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplantation: Do Early Urinary Tract Complications Influence Long-Term Graft Survival?

    E. Arpali, D. Kaufman, H. Sollinger.

    Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

    Objective: To evaluate the effect of urological complications seen in the first year after the primary kidney transplant on long term outcomes.Patients and Methods: ESRD…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Affecting Mortality During Waiting Time for Kidney Transplantation: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study Using the Korean Network for Organ Sharing (KONOS) Database.

    S. Lee,1 K. Yoo,2 J. An,3 Y. Oh,3 C. Lim,3 Y. Kim,1 J. Lee.3

    1Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2Dongguk University Medical Center, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea; 3Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

    Background: Longer waiting times for kidney transplant have been suggested to be more deleterious than shorter waiting times. We analyzed the impact of waiting time…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Preemptive CMV Prophylaxis in Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving Everolimus Immunosuppression Reduces Cytomegalovirus Infection.

    G. Spagnoletti, M. Salerno, V. Bianchi, N. Silvestrini, F. Apponi, J. Romagnoli.

    Surgery - Renal Transplant Unit, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.

    Introduction.Aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of preemptive prophylaxis of CMV infection in kidney transplant recipients (KTx) receiving polyclonal antibodies…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Adenovirus Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Report of a Case Series.

    C. Simancas-Ruiz, L. Marino-Vazquez, A. Meraz-Muñoz, A. Nuñez-Abreu, R. Rivera-Marfil, N. Uribe-Uribe, J. Alberu, L. Morales-Buenrostro.

    Nephrology, Transplant and Pathology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition SZ, México, DF, Mexico.

    Introduction: In kidney transplant recipients, the incidence of adenovirus infection is 4.1%, usually occur in the first three months after transplantation. Patients may have viral…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Detection of Endothelial Cell Specific Molecule-1 According to Allograft Status After Kidney Transplantation.

    J.-W. Seo, S.-Y. Kim, Y.-G. Kim, Y.-H. Jeong, Y.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Moon, T.-W. Lee, C.-G. Ihm, S.-H. Lee.

    Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

    To investigate urine ESM-1(endothelial cell specific molecule-1) as well as plasma ESM-1 level from renal allograft recipients, we show whether there is the difference of…
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