Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 38 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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Real-Time Expert Evaluation of Liver Biopsy for Transplant: The Significance of Smartphone and Microscope Adapter in Telepathology
N. Bath,¹ X. Wang,² J. Bledsoe,² M. Thijssen,¹ A. Ahearn,¹ B. Movahedi,¹ A. Bozorgzadeh,¹ P. Martins.¹
¹Surgery, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA; ²Pathology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
Introduction: Liver biopsy at the time of procurement plays a crucial role in the acceptance of marginal grafts. Local pathologists and transplant surgery fellows are…
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Racial Disparities in Post-Liver Transplant Survival before and after Share 35 Implementation
K. Ross,¹ R. Lynch,² R. Patzer.^1,2
¹Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; ²Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA.
Background: The Share 35 policy was intended to improve equity in access to liver transplantation by broadening regional sharing of livers for the sickest patients…
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Living Donor Renal Transplantation in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients Varies Markedly across UNOS Networks
A. Brar,¹ A. Gruessner,¹ M. Salifu,¹ R. Gruessner,² N. Sumrani,² D. John,² F. Tedla.¹
¹Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; ²Department of Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Background: Outcome after living donor kidney transplantation (LD) is significantly better than after deceased donor transplantation (DD). Disparities in access to living donor renal transplantation…
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Identifying Patients at Risk of Mortality and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events Following Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation Using the Pre-Transplant QRISK2 Score
P. Yiannoullou,^1,2 S. Goh,² H. Khambalia,^1,2 Z. Moinuddin,^1,2 A. Summers,^1,2 I. Shapey,^1,2 C. Fullwood,² T. Augustine,^1,2 M. Rutter,^1,2 D. van Dellen.^1,2
¹Transplant, Manchester University Foundation NHS Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom; ²University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Introduction Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and renal failure have increased mortality risk. Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney transplantation (SPKT) provides survival benefit, but premature…
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Impact of a Steroid Free Immunosuppressive Regimen on Patient and Graft Outcomes in Pancreas Transplant Recipients
M. Cote,¹ C. Rogers,¹ K. Khwaja,² A. Evenson,² M. Pavlakis,² K. Richards.¹
¹Pharmacy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; ²Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Steroids have been an important component of maintenance immunosuppression in solid organ transplant, but their adverse effect profile has led to the development of steroid…
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Pregnancies in Female Pancreas Transplant Alone Recipients
P. Patel,¹ D. Kliniewski,² L. Coscia,² D. Armenti,² S. Constantinescu,^2,3 M. Moritz.^1,2,4
¹Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; ²Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia; ³Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Surgery, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL.
This is the first series report of pregnancies after pancreas transplant alone (PTA). Data were collected by the Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPR) via questionnaires,…
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Telemedicine Implementation in Organ Transplantation at a Metropolitan Academic Medical Center
D. Tsapepas, H. Li, D. Kohlberg, B. Watts, J. Monteiro, A. Monteiro, N. Jandovitz.
Columbia University / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York.
Transplant patients represent a complex patient population for which telemedicine may enhance patient access to the healthcare team, patient engagement, patient satisfaction and improved outcomes…
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A Novel Conditioning Approach to Establish Chimerism Using Manipulation of JAK-STAT Pathways
H. Xu, A. Merchak, L. Kahn, A. Chhabra, Y. Wen, Y. Huang, S. Ildstad.
Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Hematopoietic chimerism establishes donor-specific tolerance to solid organ allografts. Targeting recipient immune cells (T, NK cells and macrophages) can effectively reduce the dose of total…
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M-CSF and TNF-α Induce Human MDSCs That Attenuate GVHD
F. Han, C. Ding, Y. Zhao, P. Tian.
Department of Kidney Transplantation, Hospital of Nephropathy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) negatively regulate immune response and participate in the induction of prolonged allograft survival in animal models. Human MDSC therapy may be…
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Effect of Erythropoietin on Cardiac Allograft Survival in Non-Human Primates
J. O.,¹ K. Robinson,¹ W. Sommer,¹ K. Pruner,¹ J. Paster,¹ M. Hanekamp,¹ A. Dehnadi,¹ I. Rosales,¹ R. Smith,¹ P. Cravedi,² P. Heeger,² G. Benichou,¹ J. Madsen.¹
¹MGH, Boston; ²Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
Purpose: Tolerance of cardiac allografts has been achieved in cynomolgus monkeys for the first time via mixed hematopoietic chimerism and donor kidney co-transplantation, but the…