2019 American Transplant Congress
Similar Quality in Chronic Kidney Disease Multidisciplinary Follow-Up between Kidney Transplant and Pre-Dialysis Patients
Nephrology, UFJF, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
*Purpose: Multidisciplinary clinics are the best approach for pre-dialysis patients (PDP), but few studies depict its impact in kidney transplant recipients (KTR), mostly through comparisons…2019 American Transplant Congress
Good Outcomes of Octagenerian Kidney-Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Experience
New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: Given the aging population of patients with end-stage renal disease, the transplant community is increasingly confronted with the challenge of evaluating elderly patients for…2019 American Transplant Congress
Hit Me with Your Best Shot! Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Live Vaccination Administration in Pediatric Transplant Candidates
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Pre-transplant live vaccination rates are suboptimal in pediatric patients with end-stage organ disease. Ensuring live vaccine administration prior to transplant (txp) confers the best…2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-term Outcomes And The Feasibility Of Kidney Retransplantation In Pediatric Survivors Of Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) is a serious and life-threatening complication of solid organ transplantation. Long-term graft outcomes and the feasibility of kidney retransplantation in…2019 American Transplant Congress
Incidence, Risk Factors, Outcomes and Clinical Management of BK Viremia in the Modern Era of Kidney Transplantation
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: BK viremia is endemic among kidney transplant recipients (KTR). Previous work has not compared the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of any vs. clinically…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of MELD-Na Course (Delta MELD-Na) on Outcome after Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Currently, MELD Score listing is state of the art for liver transplant recipients. Our department could show by our own institutional data and confirmed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Patients With Persistently Low MELD-Na Scores Continue To Be At Risk Of Liver Related Death
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Model for End Stage Liver Disease-Sodium (MELD-Na) score is a reliable predictor of 90-day mortality however its long term predictive ability is unclear,…2019 American Transplant Congress
Case Series: Anti-Thymocyte Globulin as a Treatment for Steroid-Refractory Severe Acute Hepatitis in Children
*Purpose: Pediatric severe acute hepatitis (SAH), when not attributed to acetaminophen toxicity, is commonly hypothesized to be caused by a non-typeable viral infection and/or immune…2019 American Transplant Congress
Obesity Induced IL-18 Production Impairs FOXP3+ Treg Function and Increases Risk of Primary Graft Dysfunction in Lung Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Lung transplantation is a life-saving treatment for terminal lung diseases but long-term outcomes are poor, beginning with possible development of primary graft disease (PGD)…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Molecular Features of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD) in Transbronchial and Endobronchial Mucosa Biopsies
1University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2ATAGC, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), the major long-term problem in lung transplantation, requires new strategies for prevention and management. However, CLAD is infrequently diagnosed…
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