Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 54 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preemptive Transplantation before and after the Introduction of Kidney Allocation System, in Pediatric and Young Adult End Stage Renal Disease Patients
R. George,¹ M. Basu,² R. Garro,¹ J. Hogan,¹ R. Patzer.²
¹Pediatric Nephrology, Emory University & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; ²Dept of Surgery and Dept of Epidemiology, Emory University and Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA.
Background: Among the various options of renal replacement therapy (RRT), preemptive transplantation (pTx) is the modality of choice in children. The objective of this study…
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A Research-Informed Framework for a Medication Adherence Intervention to Support Transition of Adolescent Kidney Recipients to Independent Medication-Taking
T. Irizarry,¹ A. DeVito Dabbs,¹ M. Dew,¹ B. Foster.²
¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ²MUHC, McGill, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Purpose: Understand the needs and preferences of adolescent/young adult kidney recipients (12-24y), parents, and healthcare professionals (HCP), to inform adaptation of an efficacious adherence-promoting intervention…
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Pediatric Kidney Allograft Outcomes Following Identification of Transplant Glomerulopathy by Electron Microscopy
J. Grodsky, R. Craver, I. Ashoor.
LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA.
We have previously shown that electron microscopy (EM) can facilitate early diagnosis of transplant glomerulopathy (TG) in pediatric kidney transplant biopsies (Bx) with normal light…
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Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Outperform Other Populations in the New Hepatitis C Era
A. Alsina,¹ A. Athienitis,² J. Buggs,¹ E. Fallon,³ E. Parkinson,³ C. Albers,³ N. Kemmer.³
¹Transplantation Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; ²Muma College of Business, University of South Florida, Tamoa, FL; ³Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL.
Background: Long term results of HCC liver transplants (LTx) in the recent era of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) against hepatitis C (HCV) are not available. We…
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Cardiovascular Risk and Subclinical Vascular Damage in Patients after Pediatric Liver Transplantation
H. Wilke,¹ N. Memaran,¹ I. Goldschmidt,¹ B. Borchert-Mörlins,¹ A. von Wick,¹ E. Bauer,¹ R. Blöte,¹ B. Schmidt,² A. Melk.¹
¹Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ²Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Cardiovascular (CV) disease causes a high level of morbidity and mortality in adults undergoing solid organ transplantation. Pediatric liver transplant (Li-Tx) recipients were reported to…
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Using Visual Icons to Present Program Transplant Rate Information to the Public: Results of a Randomized Trial
C. Schaffhausen,^1,5 S. Chu,⁴ M. Bruin,⁴ J. Hibbard,³ J. Snyder,^2,5 B. Kasiske,^1,5 A. Israni.^1,2,5
¹Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN; ²Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, UMN, Minneapolis, MN; ³Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; ⁴College of Design, UMN, Minneapolis, MN; ⁵Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN.
The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) provides federally mandated program-specific transplant data to the public. SRTR recently developed new website materials to make statistical…
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Informed Clustering of Donor Service Areas for Better Benchmarking
S. Noreen, R. Carrico, J. Rosendale.
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
The 58 Donor Service Areas (DSA) represent territories of varying geographic sizes, densities and populations. The intention of this project is to group DSA based…
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Organ Transplant Abuse in China (4): Organ Sources
D. Li, G. Yin.
China Organ Harvest Research Center, Middletown, NY.
PurposeBased on allegations that China has harvested organs from prisoners of conscience in extrajudicial killings on a large scale, this report evaluates China's official organ…
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Use of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitors to Reduce Gammaherpesvirus Reactivation
J. Hazleton,¹ L. van Dyk.²
¹Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO; ²Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO.
Infection with the gammaherpesvirus EBV occurs in over 90% of humans and leads to lifelong viral latency with intermittent reactivation that is typically controlled through…
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Triptolide Reduces the Required Dose of Tacrolimus by Attenuating Inflammation, Enhancing Immunosuppression, and Increasing Donor Chimerism in a Heterotopic Hindlimb Transplantation Model
C. Gu, F. Liu, J. Yang.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Background: Induction of tolerance and minimizing the toxicity of immuno- suppression are two fundamental goals in vascularized composite allotrans- plantation. Accumulating data indicate that triptolide…