Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 61 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Defining Ischemic Time in Lung Donation After Circulatory Determination of Cardiac Death.
D. Pratt,¹ Z. Kon,² A. Iacono,² J. Kim,² R. Reed,² I. Timofte,² J. Gammie,² S. Pham,² B. Griffith,² P. Sanchez.²
¹University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) promises to increase the number of available lungs for transplantation. Nevertheless, the metrics to define warm ischemic…
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Virological Profile of Deceased Organ Donors in the UK.
M. Lawrance,¹ K. Davison,¹ I. Ushiro-Lumb,² S. Lattimore (deceased),¹ S. Brailsford.^1,2
¹NHSBT/PHE Epidemiology Unit, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom; ²NHS Blood & Transplant, London, United Kingdom.
Background: To date there has been no routine surveillance of infections in deceased solid organ donors in the UK. A national scheme to monitor infectious…
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Significant Pharmacokinetic Interaction Between Everolimus and Tacrolimus in De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients.
H.-P. Chang,¹ C.-Y. Lee,² C.-C. Si,¹ M.-K. Tsai,² F.-L. Lin Wu.^1,3
¹Graduate Institute of Clinical Pharmacy, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Studies on the effect of everolimus on tacrolimus pharmacokinetics (PK) were limited and the results were inconsistent. In contrast, studies showed there was little effect…
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Outcomes of Hispanic Kidney Transplant Recipients Under a Cyclosporine versus Tacrolimus Based Immunosuppression Protocol.
P. West-Thielke, A. Lasky, J. Thielke, M. Campara, E. Benedetti.
University of Illinois, Chicago.
Purpose: In 2005, an internal retrospective study at our institution showed a higher incidence of post transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) in our Hispanic kidney transplant…
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Elucidating Clinical Factors Implicated in Primary Graft Dysfunction After Heart Transplantation.
R. Quintana-Quezada, I. Rajapreyar, Y. Yeh, S. Choi, I. Gregoric, P. Loyalka, B. Kar.
Advanced Heart Failure, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX.
Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a frequent complication after heart transplantation (HT) and remains among the leading causes of mortality in these patients. We aim…
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Using Gastrointestinal Biopsy to Predict Outcome in Patients Evaluated for Cardiac Transplantation for Amyloidosis: A Report from the International Consortium on Cardiac Amyloidosis Transplantation (iCCAT).
Y. Li,¹ K. Verkouw,¹ S. Tabtabai,¹ R. Barrios,² R. Gill,³ J. Koo,⁴ C. Marboe,⁵ E. Rodriguez,⁶ C. Tan,⁶ T. De Marco,³ J. Estep,² M. Hanna,⁶ M. Maurer,⁵ J. Patel,⁴ V. Selby,³ M. Semigran,¹ J. Stone.¹
¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ⁴Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA; ⁵Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; ⁶Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Heart transplant (HT) is an established therapy for heart failure due to amyloidosis. The utility of gastrointestinal (GI) biopsy in predicting patient outcomes and guiding…
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Kidney Outcomes in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and Chronic Kidney Disease Receiving an Orthotopic Liver Transplant Alone.
N. Singh,^1,2 S. Ahmadzadeh,¹ B. Amin,² R. Marahatta,² H. Shokouh-Amiri,¹ R. McMillan,¹ G. Zibari.¹
¹JOHN C. MCDONALD REGIONAL TRANSPLANT CENTER, Shreveport, LA; ²Division of Nephrology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA.
Kidney Transplant in patients with liver cirrhosis and advanced CKD remains debatable. The 2012 simultaneous liver kidney transplant (SLKT) summit guidelines recommend SLKT in patients…
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Risk Factors for Hospitalization Among Waitlisted End Stage Renal Disease Patients.
K. Newman,^1,2 A. Adams,² S. Pastan,² R. Lynch,² R. Zhang,¹ R. Patzer.^1,2
¹Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; ²Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Background: For End Stage Renal Disease Patients (ESRD) waitlisted for a deceased donor kidney, hospitalization is associated with lower likelihood of transplantation and worse outcomes.…
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Alkaline Phosphatase a New Marker for Graft Outcome and High Pulse Wave Velocity in Renal Transplant Recipients.
S. Sezer,¹ E. Tutal,¹ Z. Bal,¹ B. Demirci,¹ M. Haberal.²
¹Nephrology, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey; ²General Surgery, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Purpose: Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is a marker of bone turnover which is widely used for estimating type of bone turnover in patients with end-stage renal…
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Trends in Liver Transplant Rates and Waitlist Survival.
M. Bowring, A. Massie, X. Luo, L. Kucirka, E. Chow, A. Cameron, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore.
Long term changes in access to deceased-donor liver transplantation(DDLT) due to persistent growth of the waitlist, stagnant organ availability, and intermittent allocation policy changes have…