2018 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Induction and Maintenance Immunosuppression Regimens in Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation: An Analysis of the UNOS Registry
Aim: Induction and maintenance immunosuppression regimens in intestinal transplant widely vary among centers. The aim of this study was to investigate an association between immunosuppression…2018 American Transplant Congress
Multicentre Epidemiological Study on Prevalence of Recurrent Glomerular Disease Post-Transplantation in the United Kingdom
Introduction: Primary glomerulonephritidies (GN) can recur in the renal allograft and are possibly associated with poorer allograft outcome. The prevalence of recurrence varies widely and…2018 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Maintenance Immunosuppression Use and Outcomes in the Real-World Clinical Setting Using OPTN/UNOS Kidney Transplant Registry
1Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2CTI Consulting, Raleigh, NC.
Introduction:Belatacept (BEL) was FDA approved for Kidney Transplantation (KTx) June 2011. It has largely been evaluated in two controlled trials (N Engl J Med 2016;374:333-43).…2018 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Analysis of Community Respiratory Virus Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: Community respiratory viruses (CRVs) cause significant morbidity and mortality in solid organ transplant recipients, but little is known about the epidemiology of CRV infections…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Registration Volume vs. Expectation: Impact of ESRD Burden and Outreach
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Overall trends in waiting list registrations prior to KAS have predominately monotonically increased, albeit with varied rates of growth, since 2000. However, as a result…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of C4d+ Immunostaining in Heart Transplantation: Is All Immunologic AMR Bad?
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) remains a threat to patients (pts) following heart transplant (HTx). C4d immunostaining is one component involved in the diagnosis of AMR…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Allocation with CMV Seromatching Reduces CMV Infection without Affecting Wait Times
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients.A pre-transplant allocation strategy by matching deceased kidney donors and recipients…2018 American Transplant Congress
One-Pump versus Two-Pump Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion Machines in Discarded Human Livers
Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland.
Introduction:Physiologic flows and pressures need to be provided by the ex vivo liver perfusion device. We hypothesized that the 1-pump designed machines would provide the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Urinary Biomarker Signature and the Effectiveness of Peritransplant Lymphocyte Depletion on Early Renal Allograft Function
Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is associated with increased allogaft immunogenicity and decreased long-term survival. We hypothesized that high levels of donor urinary biomarkers for…2018 American Transplant Congress
Are Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Kidneys Unsuitable for Pediatric Recipients?
Introduction: Despite the fact that the number of pediatric patients listed for kidney transplantation far exceeds the supply of deceased donor kidneys, there is a…
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