2018 American Transplant Congress
Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO) for the Treatment of Medically Refractory Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) in Patients with ESLD and Significant Portal-Venous Shunting
Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Patients with medical refractory HE represent a challenging group of patients. Plagued by repeated hospitalizations, long lengths of stay (LOS) and high healthcare costs,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improved Long-Term Outcomes of Pancreas Transplantation: Analysis of Allograft Half-Lives and Predictive Demographic Factors
Department of Surgery Division of Transplantation, University of Minessota, Minneapolis, MN.
In contrast to other solid organ transplants, the characteristics of long term surviving pancreas transplants have not been well described. Our objective was to measure…2018 American Transplant Congress
Engineering Regulatory T Cells with Interleukin (IL-)2 Nanogel for Improved Alloimmune Suppression
Clinical trials of adoptively transferred regulatory T cells (TRegs) have been hindered by the short lifespan of these transferred TRegs. Systemic injection of low-dose interleukin…2018 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Survival is Approaching Survival after Kidney Transplantation
Abdominal Tranplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Backround: Kidney transplantation confers a significant survival benefit to its recipients. Our objective was to reassess this survival benefit in light of improving outcomes on…2018 American Transplant Congress
Few Gender Differences in Attitudes and Experiences after Live Kidney Donation, with Minor Changes over Time
Background: We sought to study gender differences and differences over time with respect to demographics, relation to recipient, donor motives, and experiences of live kidney…2018 American Transplant Congress
Split/Reduced Liver Grafts in Adult Liver Transplantation, No Longer a Risk for Graft Loss
General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Objective:Split/reduced graft liver transplantation(SRLT), while widely accepted in pediatrics, remains underutilized in adults. SRLT is considered a negative factor for graft quality(HR;1.52) in liver donor…2018 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Outcomes and Access to Liver Transplantation for HIV+ Candidates
1JHU, Baltimore; 2SRTR, Minneapolis; 3UAB, Birmingham.
Liver disease is a leading cause of death for HIV+ individuals, and the number of HIV+ liver transplant recipients is increasing. However, since UNOS does…2018 American Transplant Congress
Racing to Activation: Using LEAN Principles to Effectively Manage Your Waitlist with Predicted Improved Outcomes
Introduction: In July 2017, our waitlist was approximately 950 pts, 36% which were inactive. One coordinator & one program assistant managed the kidney waitlist. Review…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Results of the PRISM (Prediction of Rejection In Sensitized Patient Blood SaMples) Trial with a Novel Bioassay
Surgery and Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco.
Background. kSORT, a 17 gene blood biomarker, has been retrospectively validated for detection of BPAR and immune quiescence in kidney tx. This is the first…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Likelihood of Re-Transplantation in Patients Undergoing Allograft Nephrectomy
Introduction: transplant nephrectomy (NX) is a known cause of allosensitisation after graft failure. As yet, there is no consensus for the management of the patient…
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