Am J Transplant, Volume 19, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 158 of 214 - ATC Abstracts

2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in the Lower-Income Bracket of South Korea; Widening Gap in Accessibility and Inferior Graft Outcome
G. Park¹, S. Park¹, J. Kim¹, M. Yu¹, Y. Kim¹, K. Kim¹, M. Park², Y. Kim¹, H. Lee¹
¹Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Kidney transplant (KT) benefits in various aspects of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. However, the financial burden is one of the main obstacles to…
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A Novel Program of Directed Domino and Split Liver Donations Increases Liver Transplants
T. Fishbein, C. Matsumoto, N. Yazigi, R. Satoskar, S. Kaufman, K. Khan, K. Alexander, J. Hawksworth, M. Summer
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Liver transplants have not been performed in directed donor chains as have evolved for kidney transplants. We report an initial experience using domino and…
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Proteomics Reveals Compartment-Specific Alterations in the Extracellular Matrix of Kidney Allografts with Antibody-Mediated Rejection
S. Clotet Freixas¹, C. McEvoy¹, I. Batruch², M. Kotlyar³, C. Pastrello³, J. Van¹, A. Bozovic¹, V. Kulasingam¹, P. Chen⁴, I. Jurisica³, A. Chruscinski¹, R. John¹, A. Konvalinka¹
¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is the most important cause of premature kidney graft loss. AMR is caused by anti-HLA and non-HLA antibodies against proteins in…
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Extracellular Vesicles (EV) Mediate Antibody-Independent Tubular Senescence via Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitors p21/p16 in Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR)
C. Divella¹, A. Stasi¹, R. Franzin¹, F. Sallustio², C. Curci¹, G. Merlotti³, M. Quaglia³, L. Gesualdo¹, V. Cantaluppi¹, G. Castellano¹
¹Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, ²Emergency and Organ Transplantation / Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, ³Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
*Purpose: Recent data suggest a strong correlation between kidney injury and the occurrence of accelerated senescence process, known as “Inflammaging”. However, the role of TEC…
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Trends and Geographic Variation in the Recovery of Organs from Drug-Overdose Deaths with Donor Potential
V. Garcia, D. Stewart, J. Rosendale
Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The opioid crisis in the US and related increase in donors that died from drug-intoxication are well-documented. We set-out to estimate the proportion of…
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First Report and Mechanistic Analysis of Operational Tolerance after Intestinal Transplant
J. Weiner¹, S. Moturi¹, C. Ashokkumar², K. Khan¹, S. Kaufman¹, R. Sindhi², C. Matsumoto¹, T. Fishbein¹, A. Kroemer¹
¹MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Transplantation tolerance is a highly sought and rarely achieved state in clinical medicine. Defined as long-term stable and acceptable graft tolerance without immunosuppression and…
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Vo_2peakSuperior to Current Established Measure of Post Kidney Transplant Survival Score (EPTS Score)
H. Chakkera¹, R. Butterfield¹, M. Buras¹, B. Kaplan²
¹Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, ²Baylor Scott and White, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) utilizes the calculated estimated posttransplant survival (EPTS) score as the measure of post kidney transplant survival to…
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Early Impact of the New United Network for Organ Sharing Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation Allocation Policy: Improved Standardization but Similar Utilization
G. Cullaro¹, E. C. Verna², J. C. Lai¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: In an effort to standardize SLKT utilization, UNOS/OPTN implemented a new SLKT policy on August 10th, 2017. We aimed to characterize the early impact…
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Halt-hcc At The Time Of Listing Is Superior To Other Allocation Metrics At Predicting Waitlist Dropout; An Srtr Analysis
J. C. McVey¹, K. Sasaki¹, D. J. Firl², C. M. Miller¹, K. Hashimoto¹, C. Quintini¹, F. N. Aucejo¹
¹Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Department of General Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: A recently developed liver allocation metric, Hazard Associated with Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HALT-HCC), has been shown to predict post-transplantation survival and recurrence.…
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Outcomes and Clinical Utility of the kSORT Assay in the Prism Prospective Clinical Trial of Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Schroeder, P. Towfighi, C. Hu, S. Hsieh, J. Liberto, I. Damm, T. Sigdel, P. Millar, M. Sarwal, F. Vincenti
Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: kSORT, a 17 gene blood biomarker, has been retrospectively validated for detection of biopsy proven acute rejection (AR) and immune quiescence in kidney transplantation…