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  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Establishment of a National Kidney Exchange Program in Mexico: Pro-Renal

    A. Cicero1, L. Basagoitia2, E. F. Velez3, A. Dib-Kuri4, A. E. Roth5, M. A. Rees6

    1Transplant Surgery, ABC Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico, 2Transplant Nephrology, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, 3Medical Director, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, 4Director, Centro Mexicano Pro-Donación Renal, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, 5Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 6Transplant Surgery, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH

    *Purpose: Expose the need of an effective kidney paired exchange program in Mexico*Methods: Describe how Pro-Renal works. Expose weaknesses of Mexican Health System. Compare our…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluating the Effect of HCV Status on the KDPI in the Era of DAA Therapy

    J. Husson1, S. Curreli2, B. Ravichandran3, E. Wilson4

    1Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, 3University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, 4Institue of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: The association between KDPI and kidney graft outcomes is limited in the era of DAA therapy.*Methods: We analyzed adult renal transplants, at the University…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Improved Serum Vitamin D Level and Better Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation

    J. Ryu1, T. Koo2, H. Jeon3, C. Ahn4, J. Yang5

    1Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2Transplantation Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 4Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 5Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

    *Purpose: Vitamin D deficiency increases cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk through both immunologic and non-immunologic mechanisms. Although vitamin D deficiency is common in end stage renal…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Validation of New Measures of Self-Efficacy and Decision-Making for Living Donors

    A. D. Waterman1, D. Peipert2, J. L. Beaumont3, F. Weng4

    1Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 3Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 4St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

    *Purpose: Kidney transplants from living donors (LD) impart the best clinical outcomes but have declined substantially over the past 15 years. To intervene with LDs…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Efficacy and Safety of Pre-Emptive Plasma Exchange and Rituximab in Prevention of Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis after Kidney Transplantation in High-Risk Patients

    D. Christiadi, R. Charif, A. Kousios, M. Loucaidou

    Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Center, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is considered the leading cause of nephrotic syndrome in the adult population. Following kidney transplantation (KT), the recurrence rate of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors for Incisional Hernia Recurrence and Surgical Site Infection in the Transplant Population

    O. Andacoglu1, U. Ozbek2, F. Cheema1, L. Sanchez1, F. Malcher1

    1General Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, 2Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York, NY

    *Purpose: To investigate recurrence and surgical site infection (SSI) rates and risk factors after incisional hernia (IH) repair following abdominal transplantation.*Methods: A retrospective review of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Implementing a Height Based Rule for Allocation of Pediatric Donor Livers to Adults – A Liver Simulated Allocation Model (LSAM) Study

    J. Ge1, W. L. Nicholas2, S. Gentry2, J. C. Lai1

    1Medicine-Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 2Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

    *Purpose: Candidate height contributes to transplant rate and waitlist (WL) mortality disparities seen amongst adult women liver transplant (LT) candidates. 72% of adult women on…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Waiting List Mortality of Liver Tumors

    V. G. Menon, Y. Chen, D. C. Chang, H. Yeh

    Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: Liver transplantation has been approved for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), hilar cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) and metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NET), with the aim to produce similar outcomes…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Graft versus Host Disease in a Liver Transplant Patient

    D. Francisco, L. Woc-Colburn, P. Nicholls, M. Hemmersbach-Miller

    Department of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is a rare cause of morbidity and mortality in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients; the estimated prevalence is 1-2%…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Marijuana Use Among Liver Transplant Recipients

    K. G. Yan, L. Forman

    Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO

    *Purpose: The effect of marijuana (MJ) use on liver transplant (LTx) outcomes is unclear. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of MJ and cannabidiol (CBD)…
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