2018 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Dropout Risk Score in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Patients Listed for Liver Transplant (LT) – Identifying a Threshold That Predicts Worse Post-LT Survival in Short Wait Regions
Background: Short wait time to LT for HCC patients may result in transplanting aggressive tumors at high risk for HCC recurrence who otherwise would have…2018 American Transplant Congress
Improved OPO Performance Drives Broader Organ Sharing in the United States
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond.
Background: OPTN allocation policies in the United States include both local geographic priority and broader sharing. Local allocation priority varies by organ type. For example,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Donor Initiated Kidney Transplant Exchanges and the Forgotten Incompatible Directed Donor Recipients
Although incompatibility is usually viewed as affecting potential recipients of live donors, it is also encountered in instances of directed donation of deceased donors. In…2018 American Transplant Congress
Superior Outcomes Using Normothermic Regional Perfusion in CDCD Liver Transplantation
Spanish Liver Transplant Registry, Spanish Society of Liver Transplantation, Madrid, Spain.
While there is increasing interest in its use, definitive evidence demonstrating superiority of normothermic regional perfusion in controlled donation after circulatory death liver transplant has…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Stiffness Measurement, but Not Controlled Attenuation Parameter, is Increased in Deceased Liver Donors at the Time of Transplant Procurement
Background & Aims: The growing obesity rate and IV drug use in the USA presage a higher usage of liver allografts with NAFLD or active…2018 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Impact of Denovo or Recurrent Donor Specific Antibodies in the First Year Post Kidney Transplant in Patients on Early Steroid Withdrawal Immunosupression Regimen
Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN.
Background: Immunologic risk monitoring of recipients of kidney transplant(Tx) using donor specific antibodies (DSA) has become a standard practice in most Tx centers in the…2018 American Transplant Congress
400 Kidney Paired Donor Transplants at a Single Center; The Methodist San Antonio Experience
Background: Kidney paired donation (KPD) has become the standard of care for incompatible living donor pairs. Several mature national KPD programs exist yet KPD transplants…2018 American Transplant Congress
Origin and Pattern of Human Polyomaviruses Replication after Kidney Transplantation: A Prospective Study
Background. Human Polyomaviruses (HPyVs) are able to establish latent infection in the kidney of the host. Immunosuppression is recognized risk factor for HPyVs reactivation. Besides…2018 American Transplant Congress
Morphometric and Metabolic Correlates of Frailty in Pancreas Transplant Recipients
Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Background: Prediction of survival and health resource utilization in the pancreas transplant population requires novel approaches to risk stratification. We studied whether sarcopenia and osteopenia,…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Peripheral Blood mRNA Biomarker Predicts Subclinical Rejection and Kidney Transplant Outcomes
BACKGROUNDSub-clinical acute rejection (subAR) in kidney transplant recipients (KTR), defined as histological rejection on surveillance biopsy (Bx) in a patient with stable renal function, signals…
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