Am J Transplant, Volume 19, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 179 of 214 - ATC Abstracts

2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplants Outcomes from Deceased Donors with Acute Kidney Injury
C. Jung¹, P. Sood², R. Mehta², D. Jorgensen², M. Molinari², S. Hariharan², A. Ganoza², D. Van Der Windt², M. Wijkstrom², C. Puttarajappa², A. Tevar³
¹Korea Univ. Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Univ. Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Department of Surgery, Univ. Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Due to the shortage of organs for transplantation, kidney transplants (KT) from marginal donors including donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) are expanding. Although…
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Post-Liver Transplant Atrial Fibrillation is Associated with Markedly Reduced Short- and Long-Term Patient Survival
R. Rachwan¹, I. Kutkut¹, T. J. Hathaway², L. R. Timsina², M. S. Ghabril³, M. A. Lacerda³, C. A. Kubal², P. D. Bourdillon⁴, R. S. Mangus²
¹Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ²Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ³Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is the most common perioperative cardiac arrhythmia. Data regarding POAF following liver transplant (LT) is scarce. In the immediate post-LT…
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Changes in Kidney Function Following Live Donor Nephrectomy
N. N. Lam¹, A. Lloyd¹, K. L. Lentine², R. R. Quinn³, B. R. Hemmelgarn³, S. Klarenbach¹, A. X. Garg⁴
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, LA, ³University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Western University, London, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Understanding the decline in kidney function after live donor nephrectomy can inform the counselling and selection of donor candidates and guide the follow-up care…
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Predicting Transplant Rejection by a Composite Urinary Injury Score
J. Y. Yang, R. Sarwal, T. K. Sigdel, M. M. Sarwal
Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: While sequencing or SNP-based methods of quantifying donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) from plasma have been used to detect allograft rejection, they remain expensive and…
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Absence of Protective Innate Lymphoid Cell Type 3 (ILC3) and Persistence of Proinflammatory Innate Lymphoid Cell Subsets Immediately Post-Transplant Plays a Appreciable Role in Early Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction
J. Kang, L. Belyayev, K. Loh, P. Cha, S. Moturi, K. Khan, J. Hawksworth, C. Matsumoto, M. Zasloff, T. Fishbein, A. Kroemer
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) , the most recently described family of lymphoid cells, play fundamental roles in mucosal barrier immunity, tissue homeostasis, and immune…
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Assessment of the Global Practice of Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Comparison of U.S. and International Programs
J. Emamaullee¹, M. Kim¹, C. Conrad¹, C. Lane¹, P. Singh¹, C. Niemann², L. Sher¹, Y. Genyk¹
¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: As programs have become more experienced with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), technical hurdles have been overcome and superior graft and patient survival has…
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Social Loafing: Distribution of Kidneys with Multiple Renal Arteries in a National Paired Kidney Exchange Program
G. R. Roll¹, W. Irish², M. Cooper³, M. Ronin⁴, G. Hil⁴, A. D. Waterman⁵, D. B. Leeser²
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²ECU, Greenville, NC, ³Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC, ⁴NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁵UCLA and Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: To describe the distribution and outcomes after kidney transplantation of multiple renal artery kidneys (MRAK) in a national exchange program.*Methods: We retrospectively reviewed donor…
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Impact Of Subclinical Bk Virus-associated Nephropathy In High-risk Recipients
M. E. Seifert, E. P. Kasik, M. Bernard, G. Agarwal, H. Fatima, R. Gaston, B. Julian, C. Kew, V. Kumar, S. Mehta, S. Ong, F. Rosenblum, G. Towns, R. B. Mannon
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: BK virus-associated nephropathy (BKVAN) is a major contributor to kidney transplant failure. Surveillance of serum and urine for the BKV genome has been incorporated…
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Kidney Evaluation in Living Kidney Donors: Survey of US Transplant Centers 2018
N. Garg¹, K. L. Lentine², L. Inker³, A. X. Garg⁴, J. Rodrigue⁵, D. Segev⁶, D. A. Mandelbrot¹
¹UW Madison, Madison, WI, ²SLU, St. Louis, MO, ³Tufts, Boston, MA, ⁴Western University, London, ON, Canada, ⁵BIDMC, Boston, MA, ⁶JHU, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In recent years, a great deal of new data has emerged on outcomes after living donation. We surveyed US transplant centers to assess current…
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Age-Related Effects on Thymic Output and Homeostatic T Cell Expansion Following Depletional Induction
H. Xu, H. Lee, A. Kirk
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Alemtuzumab induction leads to profound T cell depletion followed by a prolonged period of repopulation. Repopulation is thought to be influenced both by thymic…