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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Serum Cytokines as Markers of Influenza Infection Outcomes after Transplantation

    A. L'Huillier,1 V. Ferreira,1 C. Hirzel,1 E. Cordero,2 A. Limaye,3 G. Reid,4 J. Englund,3 E. Blumberg,5 A. Humar,1 D. Kumar.1

    1UHN, Toronto, Canada; 2REIPI, Seville, Spain; 3UOWMC, Seattle; 4LUMC, Chicago; 5UPenn, Philadelphia.

    Background:Influenza infection in transplant patients can be severe but factors predictive of outcome in this setting are unclear. The aim of the study was to…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Factor Analysis (FA) of Renal Transplant Biopsy (KTxBx) Data Enables Objective Assessment of Risk for Subsequent Death Censored Graft Failure (DCGF)

    L. Hunsicker,1 J. Grande,2 J. Cecka,3 A. Matas,4 The DeKaf Consortium.

    1Int. Med., UIowa, Iowa City, IA; 2Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3Immunogenetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 4Surgery, U Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

    We examined the impact of five axes of injury identified by FA in the KTxBx on the hazard for subsequent DCGF in two DeKAF cohorts.Methods:…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Familial Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in Healthy Live Kidney Donors

    A. Muzaale,1 A. Massie,1 F. Al Ammary,1 K. Lentine,2 D. Segev.1

    1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.

    Kidney donor candidates are rigorously evaluated so that only the lowest risk are cleared for donation; however, it is not standard practice to exclude candidates…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of the Differences between Body Mass Index of Recipient and Donor in a Population of Robotic Kidney Transplant

    K. Tulla,1 I. Tzvetanov,1 C. Di Bella,1 F. Gheza,1 M. Spaggiari,1 J. Oberholzer,2 E. Benedetti.1

    1Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; 2Surgery, Universit of Virginia, Virginia, VA.

    Introduction: The recent introduction of minimally invasive technique allows to perform kidney transplant in otherwise suitable recipients regardless the recipient BMI. This could lead to…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Should More Donation after Cardiac Death Livers Be Used in Pediatric Transplantation?

    C. Hwang,1 S. Levea,2 M. MacConmara.1

    1Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 2Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

    Introduction: Multiple strategies exist to increase the organ pool for livers in pediatric recipients, including using split livers, high risk livers, and donation after cardiac…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use after Liver Transplantation

    J. Fleming, D. Taber, B. O'Brien, N. Patel, N. Pilch, R. Gilbert, L. Wilson, Z. Elmaasarani, S. Ball, P. Mauldin, P. Baliga.

    MUSC, Charleston, SC.

    Opioid use is associated with increased readmissions and mortality in the liver transplant (OLTx) population. The aim of our study was to identify risk factors…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Identification of Anti-Inflammatory and Pro-Inflammatory Gut Microbiota That Determine Graft Survival

    Y. Xiong, C. Brinkman, L. Hittle, W. Fricke, E. Mongodin, J. Bromberg.

    UMB, MD.

    Introduction: The gut microbiota induce and train the host immune system. Whether microbiota from contrasting environments of colitic or pregnant mice are pro- or anti-inflammatory…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    IL-17 is Critical for Airway Epithelial Injury after Transplantation

    R. Zhang,1 H. Fang,1 Q. Chen,2 J. Ochando,3 Y. Ding,1 J. Xu.1

    1Department of Immunology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing, China; 3Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.

    Background: Obliterative bronchiolitis is the major obstacle limiting long-term allograft survival of lung transplantation. Airway epithelium is the primary target in obliterative airway diseases. Th17…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Estimated Impact of the Number of Simultaneous Offers on Kidney Delay and Discard

    M. Mankowski,1 S. Raghavan,3 C. Holscher,2 M. Kosztowski,2 D. Segev,2 S. Gentry.4

    1King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; 3University of Maryland, College Park; 4US Naval Academy, Annapolis.

    Following local decline of a recovered kidney, making regional and national offers in larger simultaneous batches might decrease discards. We simulated varying batch sizes for…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Etiologies and Impact of Hospitalization in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients

    M. Posadas Salas, R. Rodriguez, P. Amaechi, V. Rao, D. Taber.

    Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

    Older kidney transplant recipients (KTR) face challenges of post-transplant complications related to frailty and comorbidities. They are particularly vulnerable to infectious complications. This study elucidates…
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