Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 103 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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KDPI-Based Kidney Discard Risk Assessment
S. Mehrotra¹, M. Barah², K. Bui³
¹IEMS Department, MEAS, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, ²IEMS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, ³Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
*Purpose: Despite the vital need, 3,553 (19%) deceased-donor kidneys were discarded in 2018 in the current US allocation system. The discard rate has remained at…
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Impact of Severity of Glomerulosclerosis on Long-Term Outcomes in Deceased Donor Renal Transplant Recipients with Donor Acute Kidney Injury
A. Brar¹, A. Gruessner², D. Adey¹, M. Salifu²
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: With long waitlist times for renal transplantation,there is a need to reduce discard rates of donor kidneys.The purpose of this study is to assess…
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Incidence, Clinical Correlates and Outcomes of Pulmonary Hypertension after Kidney Transplantation: Analysis of Linked U.S. Registry and Medicare Billing Claims
K. Lentine¹, S. Costa², Y. Caliskan³, D. Levine⁴, J. Runo⁵, H. Te⁶, J. Rangaswami⁷, D. Dadhania⁸, D. Axelrod⁹, M. Schnitzler³, H. Xiao¹, B. Kasiske¹⁰, J. Snyder¹⁰, T. Villines¹¹
¹Department of Medicine, Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ²Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, ³Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, ⁴UT Health, San Antonio, TX, ⁵Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁶Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁷Einstein Medical Ctr, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸Weill Cornell, New York, NY, ⁹Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ¹⁰SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ¹¹Univ of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: To describe the incidence and mortality implications of pulmonary hypertension (P-HTN) in a large, national cohort of US kidney transplant (KTx) recipients.*Methods: We examined…
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The Evolution and Impact of ABMR Histology and Transplant Glomerulopathy in the Presence or Absence of HLA-DSA
M. Coemans¹, A. Senev¹, G. Verbeke², M. Emonds¹, M. Naesens¹
¹Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre (L-BioStat), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: After kidney transplantation, the occurrence of ABMRh (=histological picture of antibody-mediated rejection) and transplant glomerulopathy (cg) has been reported, both in the presence and…
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Multi-National Survey among Nephrologists and Transplant Surgeons About the Suitability and Acceptance of the Marginal Live Kidney Donors Regarding Age Discrepancy
Z. Arabi¹, S. Kaysi², A. Hamad³, M. Bukhari⁴, A. Mateen¹, E. Elhassan¹, A. Altheaby¹
¹KAMC, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²CHR Orleans, Orleans, France, ³The Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg, SC, ⁴Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation is the best option for patients on dialysis. There are no guidelines or generally accepted consensus about the acceptable kidney…
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Frailty Predicts Increased Length of Stay after Kidney Transplantation: An Implementation Study
J. Schaenman, B. Hale-Durbin, C. Lee, N. Ventigan, S. Jaladanki, L. Shih, B. Abdalla, R. Ahn, S. Chang, M. Dunbar-Forrest, H. A. Gritsch, G. Danovitch, D. Goldwater
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Our objective was to implement a standardized an assessment of physical frailty and other aging-associated syndromes during routine evaluation of kidney transplant candidates over…
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11 Years Experience of Early Steroid Withdrawal Immunosupression Protocol in Kidney Allograft Recipient
O. Adebiyi, A. Sharfuddin, M. Yaqub, D. Mishler, T. Taber, W. Goggins
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Early Steroid Withdrawal (ESW) Immunosuppression protocol has become a viable alternative to steroid based regimen. Our transplant program has adopted ESW protocol since 2003…
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Molecular Diagnosis of Rejection in Liver Transplant Biopsies: The INTERLIVER Study
K. S. Madill-Thomsen¹, P. F. Halloran², .. The INTERLIVER Study Group³
¹Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³., ., AB, Canada
*Purpose: Diagnosing rejection in liver transplant biopsies is challenging given the limitations of histology e.g. low kappa values among pathologists. A Molecular Microscope® Diagnostic system…
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Early Recurrence Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following Transplantation: Risk Score From A Multi-institutional Study Of > 3000 Patients
P. Tabrizian¹, M. Holzner², V. Agopian³, R. Busuttil³, G. Sapisochin⁴, N. Mehta⁵, F. Yao⁵, J. Roberts⁶, S. Florman¹, M. E. Schwartz¹, T. Ivanics⁷, J. Emond⁸, B. Samstein⁹, R. Brown, MD, MPH⁹, M. Najjar¹⁰, W. Chapman¹¹, M. Doyle¹¹, K. Halazun⁹
¹Transplant, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC, MD, ³Transplant, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Transplant, Univeristy of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Transplant, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Transplantation, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁷Transplant, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Transplant, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁹Transplant, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹⁰Transplant, Columbia Medical Center, New York, NY, ¹¹Transplant, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: Early recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation (LT) carries a poor prognosis. We aimed to develop a risk score for early HCC…
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Live Donor Liver Transplant Offers Higher Survival, Improved Quality of Liver and Lower Morbidity for Recipients with Low MELD Score
M. Black, J. Bayer, H. Fernandez, E. Martinez, G. McKenna, N. Onaca, R. Ruiz, G. Testa, A. Wall, T. Ma, G. Saracino, S. Asrani, A. Gupta
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: The shortage of cadaveric liver grafts contributes to significant waitlist mortality. Patients with low MELD-Na score (