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  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Poor Practitioner Adherence to Clinical Tobacco Use Guidelines in Liver Transplant Recipients

    M. Kosirog1, P. T. Campbell1, S. Montag2, S. Connolly1, A. Daud3, A. Das1, S. Pine1, D. Finn3, J. Levitsky1, J. L. Holl4, D. Lloyd-Jones5, L. B. VanWagner6

    1Division of GI and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, 3Center for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, 4Department of Pediatrics & Center for Healthcare Studies, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, 5Departments of Preventive Medicine and Medicine-Cardiology, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, 6Division of GI and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Tobacco use is a modifiable risk factor for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in liver transplant recipients (LTRs). However, data are lacking about practitioner…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Learning Curve for Living Donor Laparoscopic Left Lateral Sectionectomy

    R. Hwang1, D. von Ahrens2, A. Griesemer1, T. Kato1, J. Emond1, D. Cherqui3, B. Samstein2

    1Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 3Department of Surgery, Paul Brousse Hospital - Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France

    *Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an important method in reducing wait list mortality. Laparoscopic hepatectomy has been investigated in order to decrease donor…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Intra-Operative Kinetics of Anti-HLA Antibodies in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation

    M. Kueht, P. Jindra, M. Cusick, N. Galvan, A. Rana, J. Goss

    Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: In simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) in highly-sensitized patients, donor specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) can be present prior to transplant leading to positive crossmatch, yet…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Resistance of T Follicular Helper Cells to Depletion by Anti-Thymocyte Globulin

    M. Pérez-Sáez1, N. Murakami2, T. J. Borges2, P. T. Sage2, J. Pascual1, L. V. Riella2

    1Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, 2Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: T follicular helper (Tfh) cells are a subset of CD4+ T cells that specializes in providing help for germinal center (GC) reactions where B…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    EBV Latent Proteins Encode for Peptides That Prevent Natural Killer Cell Inhibition

    B. Mbiribindi1, J. K. Pena1, O. Hatton2, C. Romero Moreno1, C. O. Esquivel1, O. M. Martinez1, S. M. Krams1

    1Department of Surgery/ Division of Abdominal Transplant, Stanford University - School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2Department of Molecular Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

    *Purpose: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects more than 90% of adults worldwide and is associated with several malignancies, including post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). Although EBV infection…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Outcome between Identical Twins in USA from 2001-2017

    D. R. Jorgensen, S. Hariharan

    Starzl Transplant Institute, Univ of Pittsburgh Med Center, Pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: This study provides the outcome of Identical-Twin (IT) Kidney-Transplants (KT) in the USA.*Methods: The data from U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Health Statistics,…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Low Incidence of Acute Renal Failure with Minimal Prophylaxis after Iodinated-Contrast TC in Ambulatory Renal Transplant Patients

    C. Jimenez1, S. Afonso1, M. O. Lopez1, M. E. Gonzalez1, M. J. Santana1, A. Santiago2, M. A. Vaca1, M. Ferreira1, R. Selgas1

    1Nephrology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, 2Radiology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain

    *Purpose: Kidney transplant patients are at risk of contrast-induced nephropathy. CT scan with contrast is a very common imaging test. Our objective is to study…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Interstitial CD68+ Cells Infiltration and Kidney Graft Outcome

    E. Paoletti1, E. Bussalino2, L. Marsano1, D. Bellino1, R. Russo1, A. Parodi1, G. Garibotto2, J. L. Ravetti3

    1Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation, Policlinico San Martino Genova, Genova, Italy, 2Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy, 3Pathology, Policlinico San Martino Genova, Genova, Italy

    *Purpose: Macrophage infiltration, as an expression of early inflammation, is associated with unfavorable kidney graft outcome in protocol biopsies. However, few studies have evaluated the…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Quantifying Opioid Use after Renal Transplantation

    B. C. Noell, J. R. Brown, K. T. Cooper, A. M. Wagner, A. Kupsco, V. Casingal

    Transplant Center, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

    *Purpose: Drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths have reached epidemic levels in the United States. Opioid drugs are currently used to alleviate acute post-operative pain…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Renal Transplantation and Sleep: What do Patients Distress for?

    L. Long, J. Liu, J. Xie, J. Yan

    The Third Xiangya hospital of Central South University, ChangSha, China

    *Purpose: To investigate sleep quality and explore potential contributing factors that affect sleep in renal transplant patients.*Methods: Subjects were recruited from Perioperative renal transplant patients.…
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