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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Contemporary Desensitization with Low Dose Rituximab Ensures Kidney Transplant Outcome beyond ABO Blood Type Incompatibility:A Comparison between past Regimens in Single Institute

    H. Harada, Y. Wada, A. Mitsuke, T. Hirose, N. Fukuzawa, T. Seki.

    Kidney Transplant Surgery and Urology, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.

    INTRODUCTION: An ABO incompatible kidney transplant (ABOiKT) requires desensitization (DS). The ways of DS have been changed chronologically and the outcome could have been subsequently…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Using Machine Learning and Simulation to Compare High Risk Kidney Transplant Survival to Waiting for a Non High Risk Organ

    E. Mark, D. Goldsman, P. Keskinocak, B. Gurbaxani.

    H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

    The purpose of this study is to help patients decide whether to accept a kidney from a donor with a potential disease. We consider infectious…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Early Infectious Outcomes of Older Adults Undergoing Kidney Transplantation (KT). A Case Control Study

    M. Hemmersbach-Miller,1,2 K. Schmader.3

    1Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; 3Geriatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

    Study Purpose: Our aim was to investigate if among older KT recipient, the types of infections, number of rejections, graft and patient survival in the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Diabetic Nephropathy after Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Pre-Transplantation Type II Diabetes May Occur Later and Be Less Common Than Previously Thought

    A. Cimeno, J. Munley, S. Sultan, M. Weir, S. Bartlett, C. Drachenberg, A. Hararian, J. Bromberg, J. Scalea.

    Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

    Background: Classical medical teaching suggests that diabetic nephropathy occurs more quickly in transplanted kidneys than in the native kidneys. The largest report of post-transplantation diabetic…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Low Serum 3-Methyl Histidine Level is Associated with Peripheral Arterial Stiffness in Renal Transplant Recipients

    B-.G. Hsu,1,4 Y-.H. Lai,1 J. Hou,1 C-.H. Liu,3 M-.C. Lee.2,4

    1Nephrology, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; 2Surgery, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; 3Pharmacology, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan; 4School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.

    Introduction:3-methyl histidine (3MH) is a non-proteinogenic amino acid and an index of muscle breakdown. Subclinical protein malnutrition is an independent association with arterial stiffness. The…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    ADL and IADL Limitations Resolve but New Cognitive Impairments Develop in Liver Transplant Recipients

    J. Corriveau, R. Chandrasekhar, S. Geevarghese.

    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville.

    Introduction: Survivors of critical illness often have prolonged cognitive and functional impairments, and suffer from depression and PTSD. This constellation of symptoms is termed post-intensive…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Obesity on Incidence of Vascular Complications after Liver Transplantation: A Meta-Analysis

    R. Deng, Y. Shi, B. Huang, Y. Ma.

    Organ Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

    Background: In response to the growing number of obese patients undergoing liver transplantation(LT), it is important to investigate the impact of obesity on post-transplant outcomes.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Changes in Geographic Disparity Following Share 35

    M. Bowring,1 E. Chow,1 A. Massie,1 D. Segev,1 S. Gentry.1,2

    1JHU, Baltimore; 2US Naval Academy, Annapolis.

    Given increased sharing under Share35, we investigated whether Share35 reduced geographic disparity in deceased-donor liver transplant (DDLT) rates across Donation Service Areas (DSAs).METHODS: Using SRTR…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Development and Validation of Nomogram to Predict Primary Non Function in Liver Transplant Recipients Using Donation after Cardiac Death Donor Graft

    Z. Guo, J. Zeng, Q. Zhao, B. Chen, Z. Zhang, L. Wang, X. He.

    Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

    Primary non function(PNF) is a severe complication after liver transplantation which causes recipient death or re-transplantation in a short term. PNF occurs more common in…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) is Not Inferior to Liver Donor Risk Index (LDRI) in Predicting Long-Term Liver Graft Survival

    U. Scheuermann, K. Freischlag, Q. Gao, J. Yerxa, B. Ezekian, R. Davis, P. Schroder, A. Barbas.

    Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.

    Background: The primary aim of this study was to assess liver graft survival as a function of Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI), and compare the…
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