Am J Transplant, Volume 17, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 3 of 181 - ATC Abstracts

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Long-Term Pediatric Live-Donor Liver Transplantation Survivors: Patient and Allograft Outcomes.
N. Celik,¹ A. Ganoza,¹ G. Bond,¹ K. Soltys,¹ R. Sindhi,¹ P. McKiernan,³ A. Humar,² G. Mazariegos.¹
¹Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; ³Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Pittsburgh, PA
Aim: To determine the patient and allograft outcomes at 5 years after pediatric live-donor liver transplantation (LDLT).Methods: Children with a minimum of 5-year survival post-transplantation…
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Kidney Insertion Through Vagina and Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Kidney Transplantation: A Pilot Study.
P. Modi,¹ B. Pal,¹ S. Kumar,¹ R. Nagarajan,¹ V. Kothari,¹ M. Modi,² V. Shah,² V. Kute,³ H. Patel,³ H. Trivedi.³
¹Transplantation Surgery and Urology, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India; ²Anesthesiology, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India; ³Nephrology, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India
Minimally invasive kidney transplantation is emerging modality of treatment; both laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic kidney transplantation are technically feasible and safe. In female recipients,…
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Lack of Xenograft Recipient Monitoring by Telemetry Lets Infection Go Unchecked and Trigger Coagulopathy.
M. Mohiuddin,¹ A. Singh,¹ J. Chan,¹ P. Corcoran,¹ B. Lewis,² M. Thomas,² D. Ayares,³ K. Horvath.¹
¹NHLBI / NIH, Bethesda; ²ORS / NIH, Bethesda; ³Revivicor, Inc, Blackburgh
Introduction: A major complication of a xenograft is the potential for coagulation disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia and bleeding. This complication was rarely seen in our…
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Effect of Two Anti-CD20 Abs on B Cell Depletion and Reconstitution in Non-Human Primates.
W. Sun,¹ N. O'Neill,¹ T. Zhang,¹ G. Braileanu,¹ K. Reimann,² R. Pierson,¹ A. Azimzadeh.¹
¹Dept. of Surgery, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²MassBiologics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, MA
Background: B lymphocytes play a central role in host immunity, including antibody elaboration and antigen presentation, and B-cell depletion is being explored to modulate alloimmunity.…
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Donor Age > 50 Years and CIT Longer Than 18 Hour Are Independent Risk Factors for One Year Graft Survival in Renal Transplant Form Uncontrolled Donors After Circulatory Death (uDCD).
M. Molina, E. Gutierrez, E. Gonzalez, E. Morales, J. Cabrera, A. Andres.
Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Nephrology Department, Hospital Evangelico y Hospital Militar, Montevideo, Uruguay
Introduction: Kidneys transplantations (KT) from uDCD have higher ischemia injury. It develops in higher primary non-function and delayed graft function, lower graft survival and worst…
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Barriers to Becoming Active on the Renal Transplant Waiting List: Have They Changed in the Last Five Years?
E. van Hardeveld,¹ T. Furlong,² A. Robertson,² N. Suh,² S. Thwaites,² R. Millar,² R. Masterson,¹ M. Lian,¹ B. Jones,¹ P. Hughes.¹
¹Department of Nephrology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; ²Nephrology Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
PURPOSEWe have previously studied the barriers preventing patients from being made active on the transplant waiting list (TWL) and implemented practice changes to improve the…
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Evaluating Online Information on Youtube for Kidney Transplant.
P. Sheiner, S. Silver.
Transplant Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
There are many frequently asked questions (FAQs) about kidney transplant that may not be answered by visits to the transplant center. Not all patients have…
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Raising Awareness of the Importance of Exercise Training in Solid Organ Transplant: A Description of a Canadian Knowledge Dissemination Project.
T. Janaudis-Ferreira,¹ S. Mathur,² T. Blydt-Hansen.³
¹School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; ²Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; ³BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
IntroductionHealthcare professionals are challenged by lack of knowledge of the evidence on optimal ways to assess and train solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates and recipients.…
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Implementing a Successful DCD Heart Programme to the United Kingdom.
M. Ryan, S. Duncalf.
Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom
The UK has the most successful DCD heart programme in the world which has primarily been developed in one region in England. Due to a…
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Post-Transplant Sensitization: Does it Make a Difference in the Development of First-Year Intimal Thickening?
J. Patel, M. Kittleson, L. Czer, T. Aintablian, E. Stimpson, B. Azarbal, D. Geft, D. Chang, F. Esmailian, J. Kobashigawa.
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles
Background: The development of donor specific antibody (DSA) after heart transplantation has been reported to be associated with the development of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV).…