2017 American Transplant Congress
National Variation in Liver Transplant Immunosuppression in the U.S..
Variation in immunosuppression (ISx) for liver transplant (LTx) across US programs has not been described. We examined a novel database integrating national registry and pharmacy…2017 American Transplant Congress
Identification of a Stable Gene Signature of Transplant Tolerance to Liver Allograft by Meta-Analysis.
Transplant tolerant to a liver graft display a specific blood cell transcriptional pattern but results from six different studies were not consistent, raising the question…2017 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing Support for Living Kidney Donors: Insights from a Prospective Study.
1Yale U, New Haven; 2U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 3Northwestern U, Chicago
PurposeTo assess how potential living kidney donors (LKDs) perceived support from the transplant team and areas for improvement.MethodsWe conducted a prospective, longitudinal study of individuals…2017 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor (LDTx) HIV(+) Kidney Transplantation Improves Allograft Survival vs. Deceased Donor (CRD) Transplantation.
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia
Hahnemann University Hospital has performed 113 kidney transplants in HIV(+) recipients. We sought to analyze the impact of HIV(+) LDTx on allograft survival.Methods: The HIV(+)…2017 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Renal Function Recovery and Long Term Outcomes in Recipients of Standard and Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplants.
McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada
Several donor and recipient characteristics are associated with adverse kidney transplantation (KT) outcomes. Our group has previously shown that based on the donor's terminal creatinine,…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Markov Model for Transplant & Renal Outcomes After Liver & Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplants.
The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) will implement a set of clinical criteria for simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplant eligibility. Our aim is to build…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Forgotten Element of KAS: A2 to B Transplantation Reduces Waiting Time for Blood Group B Patients by 20%.
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
Introduction Since the implementation of the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in 2014 blood group B patients have been able to receive priority for blood group…2017 American Transplant Congress
Emerging Application of Active Immune Targeted Delivery in Transplantation.
The homing of naïve lymphocytes to the lymph node (LN) is fundamental to the priming of alloreactive T cells. LNs possess highly restricted high endothelial…2017 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Liver Transplant Waitlist Dropout for Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Widening Geographical Disparities: Implications for Organ Allocation.
Given the increasing incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and regional differences in liver transplant (LT) rates for HCC, we used the United Network for Organ…2017 American Transplant Congress
Trends in the Number and Medical Urgency of Adult Heart Transplant Candidates Listed as Status 1A from 2006-2015.
The wider geographic sharing of hearts in 2006 may have had unintended consequences for transplant center listing behavior. This project examines trends in the number…
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