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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Differences in Pediatric and Adult Lost to Follow-Up Events for Heart, Kidney, and Liver Recipients

    A. Robinson,1 G. Mazariegos,2 S. Bartosh,3 W. Mahle.4

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; 2Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 3University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI; 4Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.

    Background: Long-term follow-up data are necessary for accurate survival estimation. While the majority of heart (HR), kidney (KI), and liver (LI) transplant recipients (TxR) are…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Social Outcome after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

    Y. Hamasaki,1 T. Matsuda,1 M. Kubota,1 J. Hashimoto,1 Y. Takahashi,1 M. Muramatsu,2 T. Kawamura,3 K. Sakai,2 S. Shishido.1,2

    1Pediatric Nephrology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 2Nephrology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 3Nephrology, Sakura Medical Center, Toho University, Sakura, Japan.

    BackgroundPatients' and graft survival rates after pediatric kidney transplantation (KTx) were recently improved because of progress in immunosuppressants, perioperative care, and operative procedures. Therefore the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    TP53 Mutations Lead to Increased Transcription of Circular RNAs in Exosomes Enhancing Tumor Invasiveness in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Bases on Bioinformatics Analysis

    Z. Yu, Y. Hou, R. Wang, X. Huang.

    The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

    Objective Increasing evidence suggests that cicular RNAs play an important role in tumor. A recent study found the enrichment of cicular RNAs in HCC derived…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors of De Novo Malignancies after Liver Transplantation

    M. Altieri,1 O. Seree,2 J. Dumortier,3 GREF2 Groupe de Recherche Français en Greffe de Foie.

    1Service d'HepatoGastroenterologie, Nutrition et Oncologie Digestive, CHU de Caen, Caen, France; 2Réseau Régional de Cancérologie Onco-Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair, France; 3Service d'HepatoGastroenterologie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Lyon, France.

    De novo malignancies after liver transplantation (LT) are one of the leading causes of late mortality, with a reported risk of malignancies twice as high…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Intraoperative Blood Loss during Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Single Center Experience

    J. Kohler,1 D. Yoeli,1 R. Sigireddi,1 R. Ackah,1 M. Kueht,2 T. Galvan,2 R. Cotton,2 A. Rana,2 C. O'Mahony,2 J. Goss.2

    1School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    Background: The aim of this study is to identify risk factors for massive intraoperative blood loss in pediatric liver transplant recipients and describe its impact…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Trends in Young Adults: Silent Alcohol Epidemic

    N. Kemmer,2 N. Bozanich,1 S. Agrawal,2 C. Albers,2 R. Syed,2 A. Alsina.2

    1Gastroenterology, USF, Tampa; 2Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Medical Group, Tampa.

    With the introduction of effective antiviral therapy for HCV, there is a paradigm shift in liver disease with a decline in HCV but a parallel…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Importance of Transplant Program Measures: Surveys of 3 National Patient Advocacy Groups

    C. Schaffhausen,1,4 M. Bruin,3 S. Chu,3 J. Snyder,2,5 B. Kasiske,1,4 A. Israni.1,2,4

    1Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN; 2Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, UMN, Minneapolis, MN; 3College of Design, UMN, Minneapolis, MN; 4Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.

    The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) provides federally mandated program-specific transplant data to the public. Historically, SRTR data has been disseminated to government and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Effect of an Organ Procurement Experience on Preclinical Medical Student Perceptions of Transplant Surgery

    M. Feinstein, S. Marcus, D. Amara, B. Durcanova, G. Roll, B. Orandi.

    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

    PurposeTo evaluate the effect of an Organ Procurement Experience elective on preclinical medical students' perceptions regarding Transplant Surgery.Material and MethodsOver one year, preclinical medical students'…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Upper Limb and Craniofacial VCA Donors in the US

    J. Wainright, C. Wholley, W. Cherikh, J. Rosendale, D. Klassen.

    UNOS, Richmond.

    Life changing VCA transplants are made possible by deceased VCA donors. This study provides the first description of all known upper limb and craniofacial donors…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Rhesus Monkey Have natural Antibody toward Swine That is Not Influenced by Allosensitization nor by Carfilzomib/tocilizumab

    J. Yoon, B. Ezekian, M. Manook, J. Kwun, S. Knechtle.

    Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.

    [Background] Pre-formed antibody is a substantial immunological barrier in organ transplantion. Antibodies to xenoantigens can lead to rapid antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in xenotransplantation. We previously…
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