Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 112 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Lose Weight to Donate Program: Preliminary Results of a Program Intended to Optimize Obese Living Donor Liver Candidates
J. Rose¹, T. Seay², A. Pesch³, P. Vargas⁴, S. Pelletier⁴, J. Oberholzer⁴, C. Argo⁵, N. Goldaracena⁴
¹School of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Division of Transplantation, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ³Radiology Department, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ⁴Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ⁵Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Living donation (LD) can alleviate organ shortage, but is limited by obesity compromising organ quality and donor safety. This study intends to assess the…
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Older Livers Should Not Be Utilized in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
M. MacConmara, C. Feizpour, A. Aqul, D. Desai, P. Vagefi, S. Hanish, L. DeGregorio, C. S. Hwang
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Organ scarcity in liver transplantation has required expansion of the acceptable criteria used for donor selection. The utilization of older donors (>60 years) has…
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Successful Use of Tedizolid for the Treatment of Nocardiosis in Transplant Recipients
R. Odrobina¹, B. Tritle², C. A.Gomez¹
¹Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ²Department of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
*Purpose: Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infection occasionally seen after solid organ (SOT) and hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Treatment is challenging due to the limited number of…
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Multi-Organ Procurement Organization Review of the Impact of Reactive Anti-HCV and HCV NAT Results
C. C. Muse, C. A. Hostetler, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: Previously a single organ procurement organization (OPO) reviewed data from a 15 month cohort (1/1/2016 to 3/31/17) and concluded that donors who tested positive…
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Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Solid Organ Transplantation: Outcomes of Sequential Transplantation in the United States
M. Gupta¹, M. Levine², D. Porter², R. Brazauskas³, S. Bo-Subait⁴, R. Phelan³, M. Battiwalla⁵, D. Buchbinder⁶, B. Hamilton⁷, B. Shaw³, P. Abt²
¹University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁴CIBMTR, NMDP, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Network, Nashville, TN, ⁶Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, ⁷Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Survival after solid organ transplantation(SOT) and hematopoietic cell transplantation(HCT) has steadily risen. Despite these improvements, SOT recipients may develop conditions requiring HCT, and HCT…
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Association between Education and Waitlist Mortality, Access to Transplant, and Post-Transplant Survival among Patients with Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
A. T. Strauss, J. Motter, D. Segev, A. Massie, T. Purnell, J. Hamilton, A. Gurakar, A. Cameron, J. Garonzik-Wang
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is the leading indication for liver transplant (LT) and these patients have been shown to have worse outcomes compared to…
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The Effects of Rivaroxaban and Apixaban on Tacrolimus Pharmacokinetics
A. C. Scheibner¹, C. Franco-Martinez¹, E. Kincaide¹, R. Hall¹, C. Long²
¹Pharmacotherapy Division, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, University Health System, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ²Feik School of Pharmacy, University of the Incarnate Word, University Health System, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
*Purpose: To clarify the pharmacokinetic impact of rivaroxaban (RIVA) and apixaban (APIX) on tacrolimus (TAC) concentrations.*Methods: Solid organ transplant recipients 18-years or older who were…
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Envarsus XR Use Can Benefit Serum Creatinine Levels in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Patients
C. M. Cooney¹, V. Javia¹, J. Littleton¹, D. S. Cooney¹, R. J. Redett¹, J. T. Shores¹, D. C. Brennan², G. Brandacher¹
¹Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is a life-enhancing (as opposed to life-saving) procedure. Therefore, minimizing adverse outcomes associated with chronic immunosuppression is vital to determining…
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Non-HLA Antibodies in Severe Post-Operative Thrombotic Microangiopathy among Kidney Transplant Recipients
R. Bonakdar, P. Serrano Rodriguez
University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: From August 2018 until July 2019, an alarming 6% of kidney transplant recipients at this transplant center had biopsy-proven thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) within 1…
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Microvascular Inflammation without DSA or C4d: An Orphan Category in Banff Classification with Intense Capillaritis and Cytotoxic T-Cell Infiltration
A. Buxeda¹, L. Llinàs-Mallol², J. Gimeno³, C. Arias-Cabrales¹, C. Burballa¹, D. Redondo-Pachón¹, D. Raïch-Regué², M. Pérez-Sáez¹, J. Pascual¹, M. Crespo¹
¹Nephrology Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ²Nephrology Department, IMIM - Institute Hospital del Mar for Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain, ³Pathology Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) associated with donor-specific HLA antibodies (DSA) is the leading cause of late allograft failure after kidney transplantation. Microvascular inflammation (MVI) without…