Am J Transplant, Volume 19, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 132 of 214 - ATC Abstracts

2019 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Cytomegalovirus in Moderate Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Low Dose Valganciclovir
T. Fallah¹, A. Logan², L. Beltran Garcia³, L. Bowman²
¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ³Florida Kidney Physicians, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Studies evaluating the efficacy of valganciclovir (VGC) at 450 mg daily versus 900 mg daily for the prevention of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in kidney transplant…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outbreak of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in a Transplant Center Linked to a Single Genotype of Pneumocystis jirovecii: Effects of Cytomegalovirus Infection and Allograft Rejection
S. Hosseini-Moghaddam¹, S. Dufresne², M. Shokoohi³, G. Singh¹, E. HunterGutierrez¹, P. Dufresne², A. House¹, P. Luke¹, A. Nagpal¹, P. Marotta¹, A. Humar⁴, A. Jevnikar¹, D. Kumar⁴
¹Western University,LHSC,University Hospital, London, ON, Canada, ²Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital,Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Although post-transplant pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) outbreaks have been reported from Asia, Australia and Europe, there are limited data from North America. We investigated transmissibility…
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Daptomycin Perioperative Prophylaxis for Prevention of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Infection in VRE-Colonized Liver Transplant Recipients during the Early Post-Transplant Period
S. Sarwar, S. Gleeson, M. Malinis, M. M. Azar
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Antibiotic prophylaxis for enteric pathogens is recommended before liver transplantation (LT). Perioperative screening protocols and antimicrobials vary between institutions. Some institutions that do not…
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Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Outcome after Living Donor Right Hepatectomy
S. Lee, J. Kim, G. Choi, J. Joh, S. Lee
Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Preclinical data suggest that supplementation of omega-3 fatty acids may be beneficial in liver resections, by ameliorating ischemic injury during the surgical procedure. In…
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Estrogen Mediated Protection in Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury (IRI) is Extrinsic to the Kidney
D. D. Aufhauser¹, S. J. Concors¹, P. T. Hernandez¹, Z. Wang¹, L. Krumeich¹, D. R. Murken¹, G. Ge¹, W. W. Hancock², M. H. Levine¹
¹Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: IRI causes morbidity in renal transplantation and other surgical scenarios. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of IRI is required so that strategies…
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A Prognostic Drug Development Tool to Assess the Transplantability at the Time of Listing for Kidney Transplant Candidates
S. Kawakita¹, L. Hidalgo-Semlek², J. L. Beaumont¹, J. Lee², M. J. Everly¹
¹Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²Hansa Medical AB, Lund, Sweden
*Purpose: At time of listing for kidney transplant (KT), a patient is not informed of the probabilities of KT, death, or remaining on the waiting…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Studying the Association of Melanocortin Receptor-4 Gene Polymorphism and Renal Transplant Rejection
F. Yilmaz¹, R. Abdi¹, B. J. Keating², V. R. Mas³
¹Renal Division, Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Director Transplant Research Institute, Department of Surgery, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Accumulating experimental data highlight the importance of targeting the innate immune response to improve transplant outcomes. Inflammation is an unavoidable consequence of transplantation. The…
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Global Analysis of Fc-gamma Receptors Binding Capacity of Human Leukocyte Antigen Donor Specific Antibody
E. S. Woodle, A. Girnita
University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: Functional assessment of anti-HLA antibodies has historically been limited to complement-binding assays. However, antibodies are capable of inducing injury by complement-independent mechanisms, including Fc-gamma…
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Role of Kidney Biopsy in Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplantation
P. B. Shah¹, M. A. Josephson¹, K. Henriksen², A. Chang²
¹Nephrology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Pathology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Simultaneous heart-kidney (SHK) transplantation has superior post-transplant survival compared to heart transplantation alone in end-stage heart failure patients who have dialysis dependent or non-dialysis…
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Effect of DSA-Free Heart Allocation on Children
M. Skeans¹, J. Pyke¹, K. Audette¹, R. White², W. Mahle³, A. Savage⁴, J. Smith⁵
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Children's Hosp, Philadelphia, PA, ³Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, ⁴Med University of SC, Charleston, SC, ⁵Seattle Children's Hosp, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: On Oct 18, 2018, the heart allocation system changed to better risk stratify adult candidates, and a current project is underway to remove donation…