Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 30 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

2018 American Transplant Congress
Intentional Transplantation of Hepatitis C Positive Livers into Hepatitis Negative Recipients- Report of the First Case-Series in the World
P. Martins, B. Movahedi, A. Ahearn, A. Bozorgzadeh.
Dept. of Surgery, Univ of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
Background: The current disparity between supply and demand of liver grafts has dramatically increased the waiting time and mortality on the waiting list. The recent…
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A Novel Approach to Preserve Pancreatic Islet Grafts in Extrahepatic Space for Reversal of Diabetes Using Parathyroid Gland Co-Transplantation
C. Ward, G. Faleo, G. Nair, Q. Duh, M. Hebrok, W. Chang, P. Stock, Q. Tang.
UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
Intro: Islet transplantation can cure type 1 diabetes; however, multiple donors are needed due to extensive perioperative loss of islets away from their native blood…
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DSA with TCMR Identifies High Risk Renal Transplant Recipients That Can Be Predicted by Proinflammatory Transitional B Cells
D. Chittka, A. Cherukuri, A. Sharma, R. Mehta, S. Hariharan, D. Rothstein.
Starzl Transplant Inst., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Post-transplant DSA is strongly associated with poor graft outcomes but has limited predictive value. In this prospective study we aimed to risk-stratify patients with early…
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Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: System- Level Predictors of Discard
L. Kayler,¹ J. Nie,² K. Noyes,² M. Leeman,³ R. Narvaez.¹
¹Dept of Surgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; ²Dept of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; ³Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Inefficiencies in the allocation of hard-to-place kidneys may be contributing to discard suggesting that system-level factors represent opportunities…
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Donor Safety in Obese Patients: 1038 Consecutive Robotic Living Donor Nephrectomies
C. Di Bella,¹ M. Spaggiari,¹ K. Tulla,¹ P. Di Cocco,¹ J. Oberholzer,² I. Tzvetanov,¹ E. Benedetti.¹
¹Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; ²Surgery, University of Virginia, Virginia, VA.
Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy has been a widely accepted technical improvement in kidney transplantation. Since 2000, we have introduced robotic living donor nephrectomy (RLDN) in our…
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Post-Transplant Outcomes under the New HCC Exception Policy
T. Ishaque, A. Massie, C. Haugen, D. Segev.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD.
In October 2015, OPTN implemented a new policy for liver allocation, under which hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients receive exception points only after a 6-month delay.…
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HIV, HBV, and HCV Screening with NAT and Serology in the OPO Setting
N. Theodoropoulos,¹ M. Ison.²
¹UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Background:In December 2014, the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network updated policy to mandate screening with nucleic acid tests (NAT) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) in…
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Using the SRTR Expected Survival Worksheet to Estimate Expected Number of Events
J. Gregg,¹ K. Womer,¹ K. Andreoni.²
¹Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Renal Transplantation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; ²Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
The purpose of this effort is to provide transplant administrative and clinical directors with reliable predictions of Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) risk-adjusted 1-year…
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Despite the Growing Impact of the American Opioid Epidemic on Organ Donation, a Small Percentage of Drug Intoxication Deaths Result in Organ Donation
L. Hickman,¹ J. Killian,¹ S. Windham.^1,2
¹Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; ²Alabama Organ Center, Birmingham, AL.
Purpose: This study seeks to understand the regional variation in donations after drug overdose (DO) and quantify the proportion of DO deaths that go on…
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In-Situ Tissue-Based Gene Expression Profiling is a Reliable Method to Detect Gene Transcripts in Human Kidney Transplant Biopsies
D. Dobi,¹ J. Henrik,² T. Sigdel,² A. Chen,¹ Z. Laszik.¹
¹Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ²Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Purpose. Validation studies that would enable the clinical application of quantitative in situ tissue-based gene expression profiling in renal transplantation are lacking. In this study,…