2018 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Score for Predicting Mortality and Graft Failure after Kidney Transplant
Purpose:To develop a novel score for predicting mortality and graft failure after kidney transplant.Methods:We reviewed a cohort of 783 kidney transplant recipients and analyzed pertinent…2018 American Transplant Congress
Development and Validation of FLF-Transplant Score to Predict Mortality of Status 1A Candidates
Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is the definitive treatment for patients with fulminant liver failure (Status 1A). We aimed to develop a prognostic model for prediction…2018 American Transplant Congress
Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events Following Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation. A Study of the United Kingdom Transplant Registry
BackgroundPatients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) suffer increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation (SPKT) improves…2018 American Transplant Congress
Trends and Policy Influences on Multiple Listing Practices for Kidney Transplantation between 2000 and 2017
BACKGROUND: Organ allocation policies continually evolve to address long transplant wait times and a limited donor organ pool. Transplant candidates may list at multiple centers…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Transcriptomic Signature in PBMC from Kidney Transplant Recipients at Baseline Predicts Early Acute Rejection
Background: Our multi-center study (Genomics of Chronic Allograft Rejection, GoCAR) revealed that early acute rejection (EAR, developed before 6 months post-transplant) is associated with later…2018 American Transplant Congress
Skeletons in the Closet? An Insight into Donor Liver Discards in the US
Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, NY.
Background Liver discards are poorly investigated. Among these discarded livers are potentially useable grafts that could save the lives of many of the 2500-3000 who…2018 American Transplant Congress
Natural History and Determinants of Infectious Complications after Kidney Transplantation: A Nationwide Prospective Population Based Cohort
Paris Transplant Group, Paris, France.
Background: Although Infectious complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in KTR, little is known about their natural history and determinants at a…2018 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Noninvasive and Mechanistically-Informative Biomarkers Predictive of Reversal of Acute Cellular Rejection (ACR) in Kidney Allografts
1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, NY.
Objective: We determined whether urinary cell mRNAs predict response to anti-rejection therapy in kidney allograft recipients with Banff grade IA or higher ACR biopsies.Methods: We…2018 American Transplant Congress
Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO) for the Treatment of Medically Refractory Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE) in Patients with ESLD and Significant Portal-Venous Shunting
Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Patients with medical refractory HE represent a challenging group of patients. Plagued by repeated hospitalizations, long lengths of stay (LOS) and high healthcare costs,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improved Long-Term Outcomes of Pancreas Transplantation: Analysis of Allograft Half-Lives and Predictive Demographic Factors
Department of Surgery Division of Transplantation, University of Minessota, Minneapolis, MN.
In contrast to other solid organ transplants, the characteristics of long term surviving pancreas transplants have not been well described. Our objective was to measure…
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