2018 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Liver Allograft Discard: The Discard Risk Index
Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Background: An index that predicts liver allograft discard can effectively grade allografts and can be used to preferentially allocate marginal allografts to aggressive centers. Aim:…2018 American Transplant Congress
MELD Based Allocation Deteriorates Patient Survival without Improving Waiting List Mortality in a Low Donor Area
The MELD-based allocation system has been implemented in Germany in 2006 in order to decrease waiting list mortality in patients with end stage liver disease.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Socioeconomic Influences on Kidney Transplantation. A 10 Year Retrospective Study
Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
Introduction: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation are a widely discussed topic. Studies have shown less access to listing and transplantation, and worse graft survival in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Ethnicity on Recipient Characteristics, Kidney Transplant Provision and Outcomes in a High-Volume National Health Service Hospital
Background. Several reports have demonstrated that outcomes of kidney transplantation (KTx) can be influenced by recipient's ethnicity and social status. However, available data mostly refer…2018 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Operative Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life for Pancreas Transplant Recipients
A) AimsThe aim of this study is to identify the relative importance of pre-operative recipient and donor factors as possible predictors of post-pancreas transplant health-related…2018 American Transplant Congress
Three-Month Pancreas Graft Function Significantly Influences Survival Following Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation in Type 2 Diabetes
A successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) may improve quality of life, reduce the progression of diabetic complications, and possibly prolong patient and kidney allograft survival…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improving Organ Donation Rates through a Primary Care Physician Office-Based Intervention
Background: The inadequate supply of suitable deceased donor organs is well documented. Studies have suggested that Primary Care Providers (PCPs) could help improve donor registration…2018 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Patient Education to Improve the Inpatient Experience for Living Donors
Transplant Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: Although the number of living organ donors is small, their altruistic sacrifice requires a dedicated approach to meet their unique needs. Living donors (LD)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Achieving Allograft Tolerance through Antigen-Specific Regulatory B Cells
IntroductionA complete understanding of the role of antigen-specificity in the development of B cell mediated allograft tolerance has remained elusive. Previous work in our lab…2018 American Transplant Congress
Heart En Bloc Thymus Cotransplantation in NHPs Controls Cellular but Not Humoral Alloreactivity
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Background: We have achieved tolerance of cardiac allografts in Cynomolgus monkeys for the first time by using a mixed chimerism-based conditioning protocol and by co-transplanting…
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