Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 22 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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Follow-Up Care of Living Kidney Donors
N. Lam,¹ K. Lentine,² B. Hemmelgarn,³ S. Klarenbach,¹ R. Quinn,³ A. Lloyd,¹ S. Gourishankar,¹ A. Garg.⁴
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; ³University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ⁴Western University, London, ON, Canada.
The 2017 KDIGO guidelines recommend that living kidney donors receive lifelong annual follow-up care to assess renal health, including serum creatinine measurements with glomerular filtration…
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Does the End Justify the Means? An Analysis of Outcomes in Recipients of Combined Kidney/Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) Transplants and Comparison to Standard of Care (SOC) Patients
J. Leventhal,¹ A. Shetty,¹ L. Gallon,¹ K. Kurtenbach,¹ D. Stare,¹ S. Ildstad.²
¹Northwestern U, Chicago; ²U Louisville, Louisville.
Eliminating the long term costs and side effects of immunosuppression (IS) is a compelling reason to pursue transplant tolerance. Tolerance in kidney transplant (KTx) pts…
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Cognitive Impairment Influences Transplant Eligibility
A. Gupta, J. Klein, J. Mahnken, R. Montgomery, A. Ilahe, P. Budhiraja, T. Thomas, T. Schmitt, J. Burns, D. Cibrik.
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City.
Background: Cognitive impairment is common in end stage renal disease and affects health outcomes. Cognitive impairment after solid organ transplants affects medication adherence and graft…
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Patient and Transplant Outcome in Infants Starting Renal Replacement Therapy before Two Years of Age
J. Hogan,^1,2,3 J. Harambat,⁴ E. Berard,⁵ C. Couchoud,³ M-.A. Macher.^2,3
¹Pediatric Nephrology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ²Pediatric Nephrology, Robert Debre University Hospital, Paris, France; ³REIN Registry, French Biomedecine Agency, Paris, France; ⁴Pediatric Nephrology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France; ⁵Pediatric Nephrology, L'archet Hospital, Nice, France.
Introduction: Despite major technical improvement in the care of children requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) before two years of age, the management of those patients…
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Automated Systems to Identify and Address Adherence Barriers Result in Sustained Reduction of Late Allograft Rejection
D. Hooper, C. Varnell, Jr., K. Rich, J. Huber, D. Dahale, A. Carle, A. Pai, A. Modi.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Background: Patient-identified barriers to taking immunosuppressive medications are associated with rejection and allograft loss, yet interventions targeting adherence barriers are rarely integrated into clinical practice.…
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Recurrence of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and Response to Prolonged Plasmapheresis Therapy: A Single Center Pediatric Experience
A. Bobrowski, D. Matossian.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
FSGS is the most common glomerular cause of ESKD in pediatric patients. The risk of recurrence after kidney transplant (KT) is 30-60%, and half of…
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Intention to Treat Outcomes of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Downstaged to within Milan
P. Tabrizian,¹ M. Holzner,¹ J. Emond,² S. Florman,¹ R. Brown,² M. Schwartz,¹ K. Halazun.²
¹Transplant, RMTI/Mount Sinai, New York, NY; ²Transplant, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
Objectives: The success of LRT has served as a tool to select a subgroup of patients exceeding transplant criteria but potentially achieving meaningful outcome with…
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Predictive Value of mRECIST in HCC Response to the Neoadjuvant Locoregional Therapies and Prognosis Affected by the Peak AFP Level before Liver Transplantation
M. Xu,¹ T. Fraum,² S. Garcia-Aroz,¹ N. Vachharajani,¹ N. Saad,³ K. Fowler,² Y. Lin,¹ W. Chapman.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Section of Abdominal Transplantation, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; ²Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; ³Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
PURPOSE: The modified response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (mRECIST) has been used to assess the response of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to locoregional therapy (LRT)…
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Assessment of Anxiety, Fatigue and Depression in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Using PROMIS Measures: A Pilot Study
S. Mohammad, M. Riordan, K. Neighbors, E. Alonso.
Siragusa Transplant Center, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
We screened for behavioral health symptoms in pediatric liver transplantation (LT) recipients to determine associations with lab measures of graft injury using the Patient-Reported Outcomes…
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Development of an Expert Consensus Guideline for Skin Cancer Screening in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
L. Crow,¹ S. Arron,¹ C. Chung,² A. Jambusaria-Pahlajani,³ S. Lowenstein,¹ On behalf of the Transplant Skin Cancer Network.
¹Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ²Dermatology, Drexel Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; ³Dermatology, Baylor, Scott & White Health, Round Rock, TX.
Importance Skin cancer is the most common malignancy affecting solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR). Transplant recipients have a significantly increased risk for developing both melanoma…