Am J Transplant, Volume 19, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 134 of 214 - ATC Abstracts

2019 American Transplant Congress
The Significance and Impact of Screening Preservation Fluid Cultures in Renal Transplant Recipients
A. Reticker, A. Lichvar, A. Gross, E. Benedetti, S. Patel
University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Preservation fluid (PF) is necessary to maintain organ viability but serves as a vector for infection. The utility of routine PF screening and impact…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Facilitators and Barriers to the Implementation of Culturally Competent Care to Increase Living Kidney Donation in Transplant Centers
E. J. Gordon, E. Romo, D. Amortegui, A. Rodas, N. Anderson, J. Uriarte, J. Caicedo, M. Shumate
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Hispanics/Latinos are disproportionately less likely than non-Hispanic whites to receive a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT). Cultural beliefs and linguistic barriers contribute to LDKT…
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Sex, Race, Social Networks, and Requests for Living Donation
A. Gillespie¹, H. Gardiner², E. L. Fink³, P. P. Reese⁴, C. Gadegbeku¹, Z. Obradovic⁵
¹Nephrology, Hypertension, and Kidney Transplantation, Lewis Katz School of Medicine Temple Universiy, Philadelphia, PA, ²College of Public Health, Temple Universiy, Philadelphia, PA, ³Communication and Social influence, Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵College of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple Universiy, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Little is known about the social networks of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients even though the members of these networks are most likely…
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Is Living Donor Kidney Donor Profile Index Useful for Japanese?
K. Okumura¹, K. Tanaka², Y. Hidaka², M. Toyoda³, S. Uekihara³, A. Inadome⁴, H. Yokomizo², S. Yamanaga²
¹Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Department of Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan, ³Department of Nephrology, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan, ⁴Department of Urology, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan
*Purpose: Kidney donor profile index is widely used to evaluate the deceased donor quality. Furthermore, living kidney donor profile index (LKDPI) was recently proposed by…
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Immediate Post-Operative Extubation Decreases Pulmonary Complications in Liver Transplant Patients
M. Safwan, C. Acho, Y. Morita, V. Fernandez, D. Galusca, M. Abouljoud, A. Yoshida, J. El-Bashir, S. Nagai
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT) have traditionally remained intubated in the early postoperative period. Recently, early extubation and fast track anesthesia (strategy for rapid…
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Analyzing The Effect Of Liver Transplantation On Myocardial Strain Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography In Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) Patients
A. Chhatriwala, M. Lam, E. Kim, S. Raissi, N. Mazumder, J. Thomas, H. Maddur, M. Rinella
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is currently the second most common indication for liver transplant in the United States and is projected to increase in the…
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Near-Miss Events during Donor Left Liver Lobe Hepatectomy: A Potential Quality-Control to Assess Donor Safety in Living Donor Liver Transplantation Programs
E. BONACCORSI-RIANI, V. Daudré-Vignier, O. Ciccarelli, L. Coubeau, S. Iesari, R. Tambucci, C. De Magnee, A. Pire, R. Reding
Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc - Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a well-established alternative to alleviate postmortem organ shortage in pediatric liver transplantation. Such program, however, should be performed…
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Case Series Of Total Laparoscopic-hand Assisted Living Donor Right Hepatectomy: First 19 Cases At A Single Center In Usa
P. N. Martins¹, B. Movahedi², D. Litwin², A. Bozorgzadeh²
¹Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Massachusett, Worcester, MA, ²Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
*Purpose: One of the major limitations of living-donor liver donation is the associated morbidity of the procedure. Although left and left-lateral hepatectomy has been performed…
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Store-Operated/Calcium Release Activated Calcium Channel Orai3 is a Novel Target for Immunoregulation
D. Shankaranarayanan¹, M. Lagman¹, V. Sharma¹, C. Li¹, M. Cassidy¹, C. Snopkowski¹, H. Yang¹, T. Muthukumar¹, K. Machaca², M. Suthanthiran¹
¹WCMC, New York, NY, ²WCMC, Doha, Qatar
*Purpose: Store-operated/calcium release activated calcium (CRAC) channels are essential for the signaling of immune cells via calcineurin, a calcium-calmodulin dependent serine-threonine phosphatase. The central importance…
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Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection Down-Regulates Receptor Tyrosine Kinase MerTK on Macrophages to Abrogate Allograft Tolerance
S. Yu, A. Dangi, M. Burnette, X. Luo
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Duke Transplant Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most common pathogens infecting solid organ transplant recipients. We recently showed that (1) CMV infection impairs the induction…