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  • 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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    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…
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