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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Early Biliary Complications after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation – Non-Randomised Comparison of 3 Methods of Biliary Tract Drainage

    A. Jóźwik,1 M. Kosieradzki,1 B. Łągiewska,1 W. Lisik,1 E. Karpeta,1 J. Bednarek,2 M. Zaborska,2 J. Trzebicki,3 M. Pacholczyk.1

    1Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; 2Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; 3I Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

    BackgroundBiliary tract complications (BTC) are still relatively common and complex problem following orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The aim of this nonrandomized study was to evaluate…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Large Decrease in Liver Waiting List Dropout Rate for MELD > 14

    D. Schladt,1 J. Pyke,1 A. Israni,1 W. Kim,2 J. Lake,3 J. Snyder.1

    1SRTR, Minneapolis; 2Stanford University, Stanford; 3Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

    Median MELD at transplant has increased steadily over the past 10 years. One possible mechanism is decreased waitlist dropout rates, particularly among liver candidates with…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Donor and Procedural Variability in DCD Liver Transplant: Is It Time to Come to a Consensus?

    L. Ruffolo, M. Balceniuk, R. Hernandez Alejandro.

    Department of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center on Behalf of the IDOL Consortium, Rochester, NY.

    Background:Donation after cardiocirculatory death liver transplantation (DCD LT) has re-emerged in part because of insufficient grafts for patients on waiting lists. Unfortunately, DCD LT has…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Qualitative Analysis of Facebook Posts Created via the Donor Application

    J. Konel, S. Weeks, K. Kumar, D. Helfer, D. Segev, J. Garonzik Wang, M. Henderson, A. Cameron.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

    The Donor App is a smartphone app that helps transplant candidates create a Facebook (FB) post telling their story about organ failure and their need…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Fate of Older Candidates Referred for Kidney Transplantation

    M. Shwetar, K. Abdel-Kader, B. Concepcion.

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.

    Background: Older ESRD/CKD patients have reduced access to transplantation compared to younger counterparts as measured by waitlisting and transplantation rates. This is true even in…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Enteric Conversion of Bladder Drained Pancreas as a Time Dependent Predictor of Outcomes in over 900 Recipients

    S. Riad,1 D. Keys,1 V. Vakil,1 S. Jackson,2 D. Berglund,2 A. Matas,3 R. Kandaswamy.3

    1Renal Disease and Hypertension, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; 2Informatics Services for Research and Reporting, Fairview Health Service, Minneapolis, MN; 3Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

    Background: Bladder drainage in pancreas transplantation technique has declined due to concern over complications such as severe dehydration, acidosis, hemorrhagic cystitis and recurrent urinary infections…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Experience with Alemtuzumab Induction with Tacrolimus/Mycophenolate +/- Steroids in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Recipients with Portal-Enteric Drainage

    D. Harriman, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, M. Gautreaux, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, R. Stratta.

    Surgery, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

    Introduction: Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant (SPKT) recipients are a relatively homogeneous population that are considered high immunological risk because of younger age, presumed autoimmune etiology of…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Insulin Use after Pancreas Transplant: Implications for Post-Transplant Outcomes

    R. Ouseph, K. Lentine,1 Z. Zhang,1 D. Axelrod,2 H. Randall,1 B. Kasiske,3 A. Israni,3 V. Dharnidharka,4 T. Alhamad,4 D. Brennan,5 D. Segev,5 G. Hess,6 M. Schnitzler.1

    1Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis; 2Lahey Clinic, Burlington; 3Hennepin County Med Center, Minneapolis; 4Washington Univ, St. Louis; 5Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; 6Symphony Health, Conshohocken.

    We examined associations of insulin use after pancreas transplant with patient survival, and with kidney graft survival among simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant (SKPT) recipients, in a…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Patient Attitudes and Perceptions of Using Mobile Health Technology for Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up and Care Management

    A. Eno,1 A. Thomas,1 J. Ruck,1 S. Rasmussen,1 S. Halpern,1 D. Segev,1,2,3 M. Henderson.1,3

    1Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

    Living kidney donor (LKD) follow-up is imperative to understand and monitor long-term outcomes after living donor nephrectomy, yet donor engagement with transplant hospitals post-donation remains…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    IL-10 Requirement in In Vitro Expanded Breg-Mediated Allograft Tolerance is Tissue Specific

    C. Dai, K. Lee, L. Kojima, K. Deng, S. Kimura, C. Rickert, H. Yeh, J. Markmann.

    Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

    Introduction:Regulatory B cells (Bregs) have shown several multiple mechanisms of suppression, including Treg induction and IL-10 production. Consistent with work of other groups on Breg…
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