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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Organ Transplantation from Donors with Cancer History

    Z. Guo,1 X. He,1 S. Huang.1

    1Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; 2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Organ Donation and Transplant Immunology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; 3Guangdong Provincial International Cooperation Base of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

    Purpose: The inherent challenges of selecting an acceptable donor for each of the increasing numbers and acuity of recipients has led programs to take increased…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    First Birth after Uterus Transplant in the US

    L. Johannesson, R. Gunby, Jr., T. Anthony, G. McKenna, E. Koon, A. Warren, G. dePrisco, J. Mitchell, J. Putman, K. Wallis, G. Klintmalm, G. Testa.

    Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

    Introduction - Uterus Transplantation (UTx) is the first available treatment for women with Absolute Uterine Infertility (AUI). It allows the affected female to carry her…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Recombinant Thrombomodulin alpha Attenuates Kidney Graft Damage after Long Cold Ischemia Time in a Rat Kidney Transplant Model

    S. Tamaki,1 K. Shinoda,1 M. Shimoda,2 S. Morita,1 H. Asanuma,1 M. Oya.1

    1Urology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 2Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

    Objectives: Thrombomodulin (TM) extensively expresses on the endothelial cells in the steady state and is known to prevent hypercoagulation via combining with thrombin and inactivating…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Kidney Transplant Survival after Deceased-Donor Acute Kidney Injury

    I. Hall, E. Akalin, J. Bromberg, M. Doshi, M. Harhay, Y. Jia, S. Mansour, S. Mohan, T. Muthumkumar, P. Reese, B. Schröppel, P. Singh, H. Thiessen-Philbrook, F. Weng, C. Parikh.

    Deceased Donor Study Consortium, New Haven, CT.

    Purpose: Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurs frequently in deceased donors and is associated with organ discard. Prior studies indicate an association between donor AKI and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Antihypertensive Medication Use after Kidney Transplant: Practice Variation and Clinical Outcomes

    H. Yamout,1,2 R. Ouseph,1 M. Schnitzler,1 H. Xiao,1 V. Dharnidharka,3 A. Naik,4 N. Lam,5 F. Koraishy,1,2 H. Randall,1 D. Brennan,6 D. Segev,6 B. Kasiske,7 G. Hess,8 K. Lentine.1

    1Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis; 2St. Louis VA, St. Louis; 3Washington Univ, St. Louis; 4Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, Canada; 5Univ Alberta, Edmonton; 6Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; 7Hennepin County, Minneapolis; 8Symphony Health, Conshohocken.

    Hypertension is common among kidney transplant (KTx) recipients, but the impact of antihypertensive medication (AHM) choice on patient and graft outcomes is not well defined.We…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Novel Dropout Risk Score in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Patients Listed for Liver Transplant (LT) – Identifying a Threshold That Predicts Worse Post-LT Survival in Short Wait Regions

    N. Mehta, J. Dodge, F. Yao.

    UCSF, San Francisco.

    Background: Short wait time to LT for HCC patients may result in transplanting aggressive tumors at high risk for HCC recurrence who otherwise would have…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Improved OPO Performance Drives Broader Organ Sharing in the United States

    R. Carrico, B. Shepard, D. Klassen.

    United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond.

    Background: OPTN allocation policies in the United States include both local geographic priority and broader sharing. Local allocation priority varies by organ type. For example,…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Deceased Donor Initiated Kidney Transplant Exchanges and the Forgotten Incompatible Directed Donor Recipients

    E. Molmenti,1 C. Molmenti,2 E. Grodstein,1 H. Rilo,1 L. Teperman.1

    1Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY; 2Feinstein Institute, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY.

    Although incompatibility is usually viewed as affecting potential recipients of live donors, it is also encountered in instances of directed donation of deceased donors. In…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Superior Outcomes Using Normothermic Regional Perfusion in CDCD Liver Transplantation

    A. Hessheimer, E. Coll, A. Valdivieso, M. Gómez, J. Santoyo, P. Ramírez, M. Gómez-Bravo, R. López-Andujar, J. Villar, C. Jiménez, F. Lluís, L. Lladó, D. Casanova, M. Barrera, R. Charco, J. López-Baena, J. Briceño, F. Pardo, G. Blanco, D. Pacheco, B. Domínguez-Gil, V. Sánchez-Turrión, C. Fondevila.

    Spanish Liver Transplant Registry, Spanish Society of Liver Transplantation, Madrid, Spain.

    While there is increasing interest in its use, definitive evidence demonstrating superiority of normothermic regional perfusion in controlled donation after circulatory death liver transplant has…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Stiffness Measurement, but Not Controlled Attenuation Parameter, is Increased in Deceased Liver Donors at the Time of Transplant Procurement

    A. Duarte-Rojo,1 G. Barone,1 D. Borja-Cacho,1 W. Concepcion,2 M. Shaheen,3 J. Heimbach,3 W. Kim.2

    1University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; 2Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; 3Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

    Background & Aims: The growing obesity rate and IV drug use in the USA presage a higher usage of liver allografts with NAFLD or active…
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