2019 American Transplant Congress
Frailty is Highly Prevalent in Lung Transplant Candidates and Varies by Frailty Tool
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Lung transplantation is a lifesaving therapy in patients with advanced lung disease. However, frail lung transplant candidates are more likely to be delisted or…2019 American Transplant Congress
Passive Veno-venous Bypass Instead Of Centrifugal Pump Is Feasible And Low Cost For Experimental Pig Liver Transplant
Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Historically, veno-venous bypass centrifugal pumps are often used to complete OLT; here, we describe a simplified method of passive veno-venous bypass in landrace pigs…2019 American Transplant Congress
A Cost Saving Quality Improvement Project in Solid Organ Transplant Population Following Tacrolimus Switch from Prograf® to Adoport® Immunosuppression – A Single Centre Experience
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Tacrolimus is widely used immunosuppressive drugs in transplantation. The use of generic medications is cost saving and economically advantageous for the National Health Services…2019 American Transplant Congress
Development of an Aggressiveness Report Card
*Purpose: Use of suboptimal kidneys (SOKs) is not uniform across centers. We hypothesize that creating an aggressiveness report card (ARC) that provides surgeons with timely…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor on Clinical Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Neutropenia
*Purpose: Neutropenia, defined as an absolute neutrophil count (ANC)2019 American Transplant Congress
Adjunctive Therapy With Tocilizumab For Treatment Of Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection – 2 Year Experience
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Reporting our center's experience in use of tocilizumab for treatment of antibody mediated rejection*Methods: We have previously reported the efficacy of Tocilizumab (TCZ), an…2019 American Transplant Congress
Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Fontan Liver Disease
1Internal Medicine, Emory, Atlanta, GA, 2Emory, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: To add to the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in post Fontan operation patients and present, to the best of our…2019 American Transplant Congress
Anti-CD272 Antibody (6B2) Induced Indefinite Survival of Fully MHC-Mismatched Murine Cardiac Allograft
Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: The co-inhibitory receptor B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA; CD272) has been implicated in the regulation of autoimmune and may potentially play an important…2019 American Transplant Congress
IL-10+ Plasma Cells Are Not Required for Breg Activity and Are Counterbalanced by Novel Pro-Inflammatory Plasma Cells
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Classically, B cells differentiate into Ab-secreting plasma cells (PCs; B220lowCD138hiBlimp1+Ig+) providing humoral immunity. B cells can also inhibit or promote immune responses through the…2019 American Transplant Congress
The C-Statistic Provides No Information on the Accuracy of Program Evaluations or the Presence of Unmeasured Confounders
*Purpose: The C-statistic of risk-adjustment models is regularly used to assess accuracy of program evaluations or determine presence of unmeasured confounding. However, the C-statistic depends…
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