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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion Prior to Liver Transplantation Can Prevent Platelet Aggregation and Platelet Induced Sinusoidal Cell Injury

    D. Kollmann,1 I. Linares,1 S. Ganesh,1 R. Rosales,1 N. Tessandier,2 E. Boilard,2 M. Hamar,1 P. Urbanellis,1 P. Yip,3 O. Adeyi,3 M. Selzner,1 N. Selzner.1

    1Multi Organ Transplant, UHN, Toronto, Canada; 2Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval (CHUL), Québec, Canada; 3Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, UHN, Toronto, Canada.

    Background. Normothermic ex vivo liver perfusion (NEVLP) is a novel method for graft-preservation applied alternatively to static cold storage (SCS). We examined the impact of…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Malignancies in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Long-Term Observational Study

    D. Khadzhynov, F. Halleck, F. Froehlich, L. Lehner, E. Schrezenmeyer, K. Budde, O. Staeck.

    Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

    Background: Previous studies have shown increased incidence of malignancies in patients after kidney transplantation. However, most of the existing data on post-transplant malignancies is limited…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Renal Parenchymal Calcifications in a Cohort of Renal Transplanted Patients and Their Correlations with Long Term Graft Outcome

    C. Alfieri,1 G. Moroni,1 D. Cresseri,1 A. Regalia,1 F. Zanoni,1 V. Binda,1 M. Gandolfo,1 M. Campise,1 M. Meneghini,1 M. Ikehata,1 P. Messa.1,2

    1Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy; 2Nephrology Dialysis and Renal Transplantation, University School of Medicinw, Milan, Italy.

    Background: Renal calcifications(RC) have been described in kidney transplantation(KTx), but the aetiologyand significance of this finding are still unclear. Our aim is to evaluate the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Proton Pump Inhibitor Use among Kidney Transplant Recipients

    N. Wilson, S. Bala, B. Concepcion.

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.

    Background: Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) have been associated with CKD and other serious adverse effects. PPI use in the transplant population has not been well-described.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes and Risk Factors of Kidney Transplantation from Pediatric Donors to Adult Recipients

    G. Chen, X. Liu, C. Wang, Z. Wu, C. Wang, L. Chen.

    Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

    Objective To investigate the outcomes of kidney transplantation from pediatric donors to adult recipients, and explore the risk factors for DGF and graft loss after…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Accepting Kidneys of Varying Quality for Transplantation or Expedited Placement with Decision Trees

    S. Mehrotra,1 H. Gordon,1 K. Bui,1 J. Friedewald,2 D. Ladner,2 B. Kaplan,4 V. Kilambi.3

    1Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; 2Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 3Operations Research, RAND Corporation, Boston, MA; 4Transplant Services, Baylor Scott and White, Houston, TX.

    Underutilization of marginal-quality kidney-organs for transplantation has occupied the community and led to introducing the idea of expediting the placement of kidneys for populations at…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Assessment of Methenamine Hippurate for the Prevention of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients: A Single Center, Retrospective Study

    I. Hollyer,1 F. Varias,3 B. Ho,1 M. Ison.1

    1Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 2Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.

    Background: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are common in renal transplant recipients (RTR). Methenamine hippurate is a non-antibiotic drug that inhibits bacterial growth in the bladder…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Effects of Age-Adjusted Marriage Duration on Graft Outcomes in Spousal Donor Kidney Transplantation

    M. Yu,1 J. Park,2 H. Cho,1 J. Ha,1 C. Ahn,1 Y. Kim,1 H. Lee.1

    1Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; 2Kangwon National University Hospital, Chuncheon, Korea.

    It is well known that graft survival rate in spousal donor kidney transplantation (SKT) is similar to that of living related donor kidney transplantation (LRKT)…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Outcomes of Graft Function in Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients

    I. Bajjoka, A. Yaldo, C. Crombez, M. Abouljoud.

    Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI.

    Purpose: To compare and evaluate 5-year outcomes of graft function for younger (Y) versus elderly (E) kidney transplant recipients (KTR).Introduction: As the number of elderly…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Predicting Acute Kidney Injury after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Using a Recurrent Neural Network

    A. Bishara, R. Kothari, M. Bokoch, C. Niemann, D. Adelmann.

    UCSF, San Francisco.

    In patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is up to 60%. Prediction of the individual patient's risk of…
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