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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Interactive Software for Simulation and Management of a Kidney Paired Donation Program

    M. Bray,1 W. Wang,1 M. Rees,2 P. Song,1 A. Leichtman,3 V. Ashby,1 J. Kalbfleisch.1

    1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH; 3Arbor Research, Ann Arbor, MI.

    In kidney paired donation (KPD), candidates with willing but incompatible donors are pooled together with the goal of finding new transplant opportunities by exchanging donors.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Cause of ESRD is Not Associated with Risk of Post-Transplant CMV Infection

    S. Panzer, S. Peery, B. Astor, A. Djamali, T. Singh.

    University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI.

    Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is commonly encountered following kidney transplantation and is associated with patient morbidity and mortality. While preventative pharmacotherapy is used to prevent…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation from HBsAg Positive Donors to HBsAb Positive Recipients

    G. Chen, C. Wang, Z. Wu, X. Liu, 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 transplanting kidneys from HBsAg positive donors to HBsAb positive recipients.Methods We retrospectively collected data of 57 kidney transplants from…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Postoperative Serum Chloride Changes on Graft Function and Acute Rejection in Recipients of Living Kidney Transplants

    V. Vakil, D. Keys, M. Junghare, S. Jackson, D. Berglund, A. Matas, S. Riad.

    U of MN, Minneapolis.

    Background: In the non-transplant setting, hyperchloremia has been associated with kidney injury. We sought to study the impact of serum chloride (SCl) on transplant outcomes.Methods:…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Measures of Physical Frailty, Cardiac Function and Cardiac Biomarkers among Kidney Transplant Candidates

    S. Gilligan,1 S. Anand,2 D. Morris,2 M. Minder,1 T. Srinivas.2

    1Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

    Background: Elevated troponin T at transplant evaluation has been reported to confer risk of cardiovascular mortality among renal transplants. We use troponin T along with…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Portal Vein Thrombosis (PVT) in Liver Transplantation – Recent Experience

    D. Bruce, H. Bohorquez, J. Seal, A. Cohen, E. Bugeaud, I. Carmody, D. Sonnier, A. Mathur, L. De Gregorio, H. Sharma, G. Loss.

    Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA.

    From 01-Nov-2012 to 31-Oct-2017, 1025 liver transplants were done at our center. Excluding retransplants and combined liver-kidney transplants, 830 transplants were studied for this abstract…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Dunbar Syndrome in Liver Transplantation: Results of a Single Center Matched-Pair Analysis and a European Survey Study

    D. Morales-Santana,1 Z. Czigany,1 J. Böcker,1 A. Andert,1 W. Schöning,1 T. Ulmer,1 J. Bednarsch,1 I. Amygdalos,1 F. Meister,1 P. Isfort,3 M. Liebl,3 D. Kroy,2 F. Tacke,2 C. Trautwein,2 U. Neumann,1 G. Lurje.1

    1Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH, Aachen, Germany; 2Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH, Aachen, Germany; 3Institute of Radiology, University Hospital RWTH, Aachen, Germany.

    Background: Median-arcuate-ligament or Dunbar-syndrome (MALs) potentially causes arterial complications in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). This study aimed to investigate MALs incidence and its impact on…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Survival Advantage from Accepting a Circulatory Death Liver Transplant

    J. Richards,1 R. Taylor,2 E. Allen,2 A. Goh,1 J. Neuberger,3 D. Collett,2 G. Pettigrew.1

    1Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Statistics and Clinical Studies, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom; 3Department of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

    Background As liver failure increases in the UK, so does demand for liver transplantation. In response, UK donation after circulatory death (DCD) activity has approximately…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of On-Site Overestimation of Macrosteatosis on Donor Liver Biopsy

    M. Wright, J. Seal, L. De Gregorio, H. Bohorquez, D. Bruce, E. Bugeaud, I. Carmody, A. Mathur, D. Sonnier, G. Galliano, I. Oliva, L. Bratton, G. Loss.

    Multi-Organ Transplant Institute, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans.

    Introduction: Estimation of hepatic steatosis is an important variable in determining suitability of a donor liver allograft for transplantation. Differentiation between and quantification of macro-…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Race/Ethnicity and Hypertension Self-Care Behaviors among US Living Kidney Donors

    M. Johnson, T. Purnell, X. Luo, L. Cooper, M. Waldram, D. Crews, M. Henderson, A. Massie, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.

    Purpose: Despite the success of live donor kidney transplantation as an optimal treatment for ESRD, some living kidney donors may be at increased risk of…
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