2018 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Center Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT) as an Enhancement to the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors
Purpose: The LDAT is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluations (PsychE). It assesses motivation, LD knowledge/expectations, support, closeness…2018 American Transplant Congress
Determining the Utility of Protocol Biopsies in Kidney Transplant Recipients
1Virginia Commonwealth University, Falls Church; 2Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church.
Protocol biopsies may allow for early detection and treatment of kidney transplant rejection or other correctable pathology, leading to improved graft survival. Unfortunately, biopsies may…2018 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Outcome in Liver Transplant Patients with Renal Insufficiency and Intraoperative CVVH
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
Background: Intraoperative continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH) is an important tool to manage liver transplant (LT) patients with renal insufficiencies. Methods: All LT patients with renal…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Safety and Efficacy of Splenic Artery Ligation in Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Introduction: Portal hypertension in recipients undergoing living donor liver transplant (LDLT) is thought to be one of the main causes of posttransplant graft dysfunction. In…2018 American Transplant Congress
Benefit of Anti-Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin(HBIG) Monotherapy Compared to HBIG Combined with Entecavir in Long Term Renal Function
Background: To reduce the HBV reinfection after liver transplantation, anti-hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG) alone or combination with antiviral nucleotide analogues are usually used regimen. However,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Upper Limb Early Cannulation Arteriovenous Grafts (ecAVG) for Complex Vascular Access – A Healthy Alternative to Central Venous Catheters (CVC)
IntroductionPatients with few transplant options and failing dialysis access are challenging to manage. Transitioning away from a CVC to fistula / graft is often difficult.…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Outcomes Analysis of UNOS Defined "Hard to Place Kidneys"
Keck Medical Center at USC, Los Angeles, CA.
The discard rate of potentially usable kidneys remains dismal despite a critical shortage of organs. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) now provides a…2018 American Transplant Congress
Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy – The BMI Effect
Aims: To evaluate the outcomes of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy (LDN) across 4 BMI groups.Methods : Using the SRTR database, all LDNs performed between 2006-2015 were…2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Deficiency of RIP3 Phosphokinase Activity Shortens Cardiac Allograft Survival in the Setting of Costimulation Blockade
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Receptor-interacting protein kinase 3 (RIP3) is critical for necroptosis in the setting of inflammation. It has been shown that kidney and heart allografts deficient in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Assessment of AMR Risk by Novel Donor/recipient Non-HLA Variants
1UCSF, San Francisco; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Transplant (tx) injury from antibody mediated (AMR) and T cell mediated (CMR) rejection, limits indefinite survival after HLA mismatched organ tx. AMR is incompletely diagnosed…
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