2017 American Transplant Congress
We Wish This Would Never Happen Again! Implementation of an Adverse Event Review System to Improve the Safety of Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Patients.
Background: 50% of SOT centers are cited by CMS for inadequate review of adverse events (AE)s. AE reviews are inconsistently performed, rarely cover near misses…2017 American Transplant Congress
Strategy for Analysis of Donor-Specific Antibody Repertoire: Paired Immunoglobulin Heavy and Light Chain Analysis of Individual Memory B Cells.
Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is the most challenging immunological barrier to overcome in human transplantation and one of the most prevalent causes of kidney allograft loss.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Training for Transplant: Frailty Assessment and Optimization in Kidney Transplant Candidates.
Surgery, Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, TX
Purpose: To design and implement a frailty assessment and optimization program addressing potential modifiable risk factors that would ordinarily disqualify patients from kidney and/or pancreas…2017 American Transplant Congress
How Much Is a Kidney Worth? Comparing Kidney Transplant Strategies in Liver Transplant Candidates.
1Div Nephrology, ; 2Div Gastroenterology & Hepatology, ; 3Ctr Health Policy, Stanford U, Palo Alto
The number of simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplants for renal failure complicating end-stage liver disease (ESLD) is rising. The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) will…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Type of Recipient Diabetes on 1 and 3-Year Kidney Allograft and Patient Outcomes.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The pathophysiology of type 1 (T1DM) and type 2 (T2DM) diabetes is different and has been conjectured to impact transplantation outcomes differently over time especially…2017 American Transplant Congress
Largest US Series of Minimally Invasive Full and Laparoscopy-Assisted Living Donor Hepatectomy.
Surgery, New York Presbyterian/Columbia University, New York, NY
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has offered minimally invasive donor hepatectomies since 2008. Donor hepatectomies have been performed using 3 access routes (1) hybrid technique;…
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