Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 126 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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Normothermic Ex-Vivo Kidney Perfusion Restores the Genetic Profile of Marginal Kidney Grafts Subjected to Warm Ischemia
P. Urbanellis,¹ M. Hamar,¹ I. Linares,¹ D. Kollmann,¹ S. Ganesh,¹ R. John,¹ P. Yip,¹ I. Mucsi,¹ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Bagli,² A. Konvalinka,¹ D. Grant,¹ L. Robinson,² M. Selzner.¹
¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²SickKids Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Increasing evidence demonstrates the superiority of normothermic ex-vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) over cold storage (CS) for marginal renal grafts. To account for this improvement,…
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The Overriding Importance of HLA-DR Donor-Specific Antibody That is Correlated to CAV after Heart Transplant
E. Kransdorf, J. Patel, M. Kittleson, S. Dimbil, R. Levine, D. Geft, D. Chang, L. Czer, J. Kobashigawa.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: Class II donor specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) have been correlated to subsequent CAV development. More specifically, HLA-DQ has been most reported for CAV development.…
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Congestive Hepatic Fibrosis: Correlation with Cardiac Hemodynamics and Changes after VAD or Cardiac Transplant
S. Dhingra,¹ A. Segura,³ N. Cortes-Santiago,¹ M. Schwartz,⁵ S. Mittal,⁴ P. Jalal,² G. Sood.²
¹Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; ²Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; ³Cardiovasular Pathology, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX; ⁴Gastroenterology, Kelsey Seybold Clinic, Houston, TX; ⁵Pathology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.
Background: Chronic heart failure causes chronic passive congestion of liver that can progress to advanced fibrosis. Liver biopsy is performed for assessment of fibrosis to…
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Heart Transplantation in Patients with Complex Congenital Heart Disease
M. Kittleson, J. Patel, E. Kransdorf, S. Dimbil, R. Levine, D. Geft, D. Chang, L. Czer, J. Kobashigawa, R. Garg, E. Zahn.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: As medical and surgical management of complex congenital heart disease (CCHD) improves, patients may survive into adulthood to suffer from end-stage heart failure and…
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Evanescent Antibodies: A Report on the Natural History of Anti-Blood Group A₂ Antibodies and Their Rapid Resolution in Patients Awaiting A₂ to B Transplantation
S. Radomski, S. Rosen-Bronson, D. Li, M. Awwad, G. Vranic, B. Javaid, P. Abrams, S. Yi, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert.
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
Introduction: Despite the benefits of A2 to B transplants, centers have been reluctant to adopt such a program due to unanswered questions including whether elevation…
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Kidney Transplantation in Older Recipients: Preemptive High KDPI Kidney vs. Lower KDPI Kidney after Varying Dialysis Vintage
B. Chopra, S. Hussain, K. Sureshkumar.
Nephrology and Hypertension, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dialysis vintage is an independent predictor of adverse long-term kidney transplant outcomes. Transplantation of "marginal" kidneys also results in inferior outcomes. We sought to analyze…
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Generation of Calculated Panel-Reactive Antibody Values Using a Reference Panel of Bone Marrow Donors
E. Kransdorf,¹ L. Gragert,^2,4 M. Pando,³ N. Kaur,² J. Patel,¹ I. Kim,¹ X. Zhang,¹ M. Maiers,⁴ J. Kobashigawa.¹
¹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; ²Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA; ³Baylor Scott & White, Temple, TX; ⁴National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN.
Introduction: Calculated panel-reactive antibody (CPRA) is the official metric of sensitization used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for kidney allocation. The reference…
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Optimal Protocol for ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplantations: Analysis of 400 Cases in a Single Center Experience
H. Kwon, Y. Kim, J. Choi, S. Shin, J. Jung, M. Cho, J. Kim, D. Han.
Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
This study describes the single center experience and long-term results of ABOincompatible kidney transplantation (ABO i KT).Four hundred patientswhoreceived an ABOi KT in the period…
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Obesity is Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality among Living Kidney Donors
R. Reed,¹ A. Massie,² D. Sawinski,³ P. MacLennan,¹ B. Shelton,¹ M. Mustian,¹ D. McWilliams,¹ V. Kumar,¹ R. Mannon,¹ R. Gaston,¹ D. Segev,² C. Lewis,¹ J. Locke.¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Background: Living kidney donor (LKD) demographics have changed, and transplant centers have relaxed selection criteria to include LKDs with obesity. Recently, it has been shown…
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Investigating the Variability of Fluid Resuscitation during Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
A. Williams,¹ S. Kumar,² R. Sung,¹ K. Woodside,¹ M. Englesbe,¹ M. Alameddine,¹ S. Waits.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Section of Transplantation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; ²Department of Anesthesia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Background: Under or over resuscitation during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy may have a significant effect on donor and graft outcomes. Despite the importance, no guidelines exist…