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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Waning Enthusiasm for a Once Promising Test: C1q Testing Does Not Provide Prognostic Information for DSA Screening Protocols

    A. Gilbert, D. Li, M. Awwad, S. Rosen-Bronson, P. Abrams, J. Verbesey, G. Vranic, M. Cooper.

    Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.

    Introduction: Testing of donor specific antibodies (DSA) for binding of complement component C1q has been used to better elucidate pathologic antibodies from more benign reactions.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    ABO-Incompatibility Lower Incidence of DSA-Induced Antibody-Mediated Rejection

    D. Lee,1 B. Kim,1 J. KIm,1 I. KIm,1 M. Jeon.1

    1Nephrology, Medicine, Maryknoll General Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea; 2Laboratory Medicine, Maryknoll General Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea; 3Surgery, Maryknoll General Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea; 4Urology, Maryknoll General Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea; 5Pathology, Maryknoll General Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea.

    Introduction:Donor-specific anti-HLA antibody (DSA) and Anti-ABO antibody are major barriers for successful kidney transplantation. Limited data are available about the existences of both DSA and…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Delayed Graft Function in Live Donor HLA-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Study

    J. Motter,1 A. Massie,1 J. Garonzik Wang,1 K. Jackson,1 X. Luo,1 A. Muzaale,1 B. Orandi,2 D. Segev.1

    1JHU, Baltimore; 2UCSF, San Francisco.

    Background: Many patients with a willing, but incompatible live donor choose to undergo incompatible live donor kidney transplantation (ILDKT) facilitated by desensitization procedures to eliminate…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Gains from Joining Kidney Paired Donation with Several Incompatible Donors

    M. Bray, W. Wang, P. Song, J. Kalbfleisch.

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

    In kidney paired donation (KPD), a transplant candidate with an incompatible donor joins a pool of similar pairs in an effort to find new transplant…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Brincidofovir for Disseminated Adenovirus in Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients: Report of a Case Series

    L. Bowman, R. Baliga, C. Mayer.

    Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; Florida Kidney Physicians, Tampa, FL; Infectious Disease Associates of Tampa Bay, Tampa, FL.

    Background: Adenoviruses (AdV) are DNA viruses that can cause significant morbidity and mortality rates up to 50% with disseminated disease. The incidence post-renal transplantation is…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Lower Uric Acid Level after Kidney Transplantation Impact on Better Long-Term Allograft Outcomes

    D. Kim,1 H. Choi,2 Y. Jung,1 J. Lee,1 J. Lee,1 J. Lee,1 K. Huh,1 M. Kim,1 B. Kim,2 Y. Kim.1

    1Transplantation Surgery, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea; 2Nephrology, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea.

    BackgroundIt has been on debate that hyperuricemia was an independent risk factor for poor prognosis in kidney transplantation. Considering the link of UA with diabetes,…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplantation is Associated with Decreasing Native T1 Time: A Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study

    M. Contti,1 L. de Andrade,1 H. Nga,1 M. Valiatti,1 H. Takase,1 A. Bravin,1 A. Mauricio,2 M. Barbosa.3

    1Internal Medicine, Botucatu Medical School, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2Radiology, Heart Institute of the Clinics Hospital at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; 3Radiology, Centro Avançado de Radiologia e Diagnóstico por Imagem, Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) have high rate of cardiovascular death. Kidney transplantantion, on the other hand, is associated with lower cardiovascular…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Changes in Carotid Arterial Inflammation in De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients as Assessed by 18F-FDG PET/CT

    H. Yoon, Y. Kim, C. Yang, S. Shin.

    Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

    Purpose: Inflammatory activity of the arterial wall can be assessed by measuring 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake with positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT). Improvement in vascular…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Recent Exposure to Four-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate (4F-PCC) is Associated with Intracardiac Thrombus during Liver Transplantation

    M. Misel,1,2 G. Schnickel,1 J. Berumen,1 R. Sanchez,3 K. Mekeel.1

    1Division of Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery, UC San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA; 2Pharmacy Inpatient Services, UC San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA; 3Anesthesiology, UC San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA.

    BackgroundPatients with ESLD often have imbalance in hemostasis & monitoring traditional coagulation lab markers are generally not helpful. Intracardiac thrombus (ICT) during liver transplant (LT)…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Does Biliary Duct Reconstruction Technique Impact Liver Transplantation Outcomes?

    R. Shahbazov,1 M. Kessel,2 K. Knapp,2 F. Azari,2 S. Tsutsui,3 A. Nickkholgh,1 D. Maluf,1 S. Pelletier.1

    1Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; 2School of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; 3Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Introduction: The rate of biliary complication after liver transplantation remains high. The choice of biliary reconstruction technique may depend on the patient's primary disease, possible…
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