2018 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Preformed Donor Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies: Results of the BELACOR Trial
IntroductionAntibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is currently a critical question in kidney transplant recipient with immunological risk factors such as pre transplant donor-specific anti HLA antibodies (DSA).…2018 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Analysis of Community Respiratory Virus Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: Community respiratory viruses (CRVs) cause significant morbidity and mortality in solid organ transplant recipients, but little is known about the epidemiology of CRV infections…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Registration Volume vs. Expectation: Impact of ESRD Burden and Outreach
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Overall trends in waiting list registrations prior to KAS have predominately monotonically increased, albeit with varied rates of growth, since 2000. However, as a result…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of C4d+ Immunostaining in Heart Transplantation: Is All Immunologic AMR Bad?
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) remains a threat to patients (pts) following heart transplant (HTx). C4d immunostaining is one component involved in the diagnosis of AMR…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Allocation with CMV Seromatching Reduces CMV Infection without Affecting Wait Times
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients.A pre-transplant allocation strategy by matching deceased kidney donors and recipients…2018 American Transplant Congress
One-Pump versus Two-Pump Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion Machines in Discarded Human Livers
Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland.
Introduction:Physiologic flows and pressures need to be provided by the ex vivo liver perfusion device. We hypothesized that the 1-pump designed machines would provide the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Urinary Biomarker Signature and the Effectiveness of Peritransplant Lymphocyte Depletion on Early Renal Allograft Function
Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is associated with increased allogaft immunogenicity and decreased long-term survival. We hypothesized that high levels of donor urinary biomarkers for…2018 American Transplant Congress
Are Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Kidneys Unsuitable for Pediatric Recipients?
Introduction: Despite the fact that the number of pediatric patients listed for kidney transplantation far exceeds the supply of deceased donor kidneys, there is a…2018 American Transplant Congress
Private Insurance is Associated with Reduce Access to HCV Therapy after Liver Transplantation
Effective treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has revolutionized post liver transplant (LTx) care. Administration of direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) after HCV+ LTx results…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allograft Vascular Disease Post-Transplant (KTX): Risk Factors and Implications
1Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Background: Over time grafts develop arteriosclerosis (ART)and arteriolar hyalinosis (AH). Previous studies associated AH with calcineurin inhibitors (CNI), diabetes (DM), kidney age and hypertension. Other…
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