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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Incidence of Atrial Arrhythmia after Lung Transplantation with a Universal Prophylaxis Strategy

    M. Sullivan,1 J. Lin,2 R. Bag,2 L. Potter.1

    1Department of Pharmacy, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL; 2Medicine/Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

    PurposePostoperative atrial arrhythmias (AA) occur in 19-39% of patients after lung transplantation and are associated with increased mortality, hospital length of stay, and risk of…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Clinical and Safety Outcomes Following Uncontrolled Tacrolimus Conversion in Adult Transplant Recipients

    A. Lichvar,1 S. Tremblay,2 D. Naik,2 E. King,4 A. Vinks,4 U. Christians,3 J. Lipscomb,4 R. Alloway.2

    1U of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2U of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; 3U of Colorado, Denver, CO; 4Cincinnati Children's, Cincinnati, OH.

    Background: Long-term studies with control groups are required to assess tacrolimus (TAC) conversion. The purpose of this study was to compare clinical and safety outcomes…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Monitoring of Small Bowel Allografts with Kynurenine Serum Levels

    M. Stangl,1 D. Koliogiannis,1 J. Bucher,1 M. Guba,1 D. Abendroth.2

    1Transplant Center Munich, Klinikum Großhadern, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; 2Department of Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

    Long-term success in intestinal transplantation could be significantly improved by the development of a reliable noninvasive marker of rejection, allowing early diagnosis and treatment without…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Hepatitis B Vaccination in Transplant Candidates

    M. Bosaeed, Y. AlJishi, S. Husain, C. Rotstein, A. Humar, D. Kumar.

    UHN, Toronto, Canada.

    Background:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine series is recommended for all organ transplant candidates; high doses of vaccine are generally given to those with renal disease;…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Fluconazole Prophylaxis on Fungal Infections in Liver Transplant Recipients

    K. Roach,1 S. Todd,2 M. Lyon,2 R. Subramanian.2

    1Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA; 2Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA.

    The purpose of this study was to assess if utilizing fluconazole for prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in high risk liver transplant recipients is…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Circulating T Follicular Helper Cells Expand Following Transplantation and Exhibit a CD44hi Phenotype That Correlates with Peak Germinal Center Alloreactivity

    G. La Muraglia II, M. Wagener, M. Ford, R. Badell.

    Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta.

    It is increasingly well-recognized that donor-specific antibodies (DSA) play a significant role in the development of chronic rejection and fibrosis that contribute to late renal…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Impacts of Deceased Donor Oxygenation Status in Liver Transplant

    T. Okamoto,2 K. Sasaki,3 H. Niikawa,2 M. Fujiki,3 C. Quintini,3 K. Hashimoto,3 C. Miller,3 K. Abu-Elmagd,1 K. McCurry,2 J. Fung.4

    1Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; 2Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; 3Liver Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; 4Transplantation, University of Chicago, Chicago.

    Background: PaO2/FiO2 (P/F) ratio of > 300 mmHg in donors is a criterion of standard lung donors, while several studies demonstrated that the utilization of…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Natural Herb Danshen Suppresses Allospecific Memory CD8+ T Cell Generation and Murine Allograft Rejection

    Z. Dai, H. Liu, Y. Chen, C-.L. Liang, F. Qiu.

    Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.

    Inducing long-term transplant survival or tolerance without continuous global immunosuppression is a highly desired goal in transplantation given that conventional immunosuppressive drugs may cause side…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Cost Analysis on Normothermic Machine Perfusion at a Single Center

    D. Pezzati, Q. Liu, H. Hassan, G. Iuppa, L. Hernandez, G. D'Amico, T. Diago Uso, B. Heghtsad, C. Miller, C. Quintini.

    General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    INTRODUCTION: Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) for liver transplantation is a novel and promising technique.One of the concerns related to its usage is the high cost.The…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    High Calcineurin Inhibitor Intra Patient Variability is Associated with Early Renal Allograft Inflammation, Chronicity and Loss

    A. Sharma,1 A. Cherukuri,2 R. Mehta,1 P. Sood,1 S. Hariharan.1

    1Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

    High CNI IPV has been associated with poor kidney allograft outcomes, albeit in small limited studies. We evaluated effect of CNI IPV (the degree of…
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