Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 123 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Domestic U.S. Transplant Tourism: Analysis of U.S. Citizens Who Travel to Another State for Transplant
R. S. Mangus, M. F. Mount
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Transplant tourism is a phenomenon where patients travel away from their home to receive organ transplantation where organs are more readily available. This flow…
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Investigating the 6-Month Effects of the UNOS Allocation System Changes on the Post Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
P. Banankhah¹, C. Lum², A. Salimbangon³, G. Liu¹, A. Wolfson⁴, E. DePasquale¹, R. Chand⁵, P. Genyk¹, P. Kingsford¹, J. Li¹, D. Vucicevic⁶, A. Vaidya¹, K. Pandya¹, J. Rahman¹, M. Fong¹, L. Grazette¹, J. Nattiv¹, S. Hashmi¹, S. Nuno¹, J. Pizula¹, A. Lee¹, K. Yang¹, S. Shah¹
¹Cardiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, ³Cardiology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, CA, ⁵Cardiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Cardiology, Newark Beth-Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ
*Purpose: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) has a broad spectrum of presentations. However, the prognosis is poor in patients presenting with significant chamber remodeling, and they often…
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Association of Discharge Immunosuppressive Regimen with Treated Acute Rejection and Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Adult Lung Transplantation: An Analysis of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Data
W. S. Cherikh¹, B. J. Plucinski¹, S. Palmer², W. E. Fitzsimmons³
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ³Fitzsimmons LLC, Vernon Hills, IL
*Purpose: The optimal immunosuppressive (IS) regimen after lung (LU) transplant is unknown. We conducted the current analysis to compare the effect of four different discharge…
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Clinical Evaluation of Lung Transplantation for End-Stage Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients with Lung Cancer
J. Zhang, D. Liu, J. Chen
Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Wuxi, China
*Purpose: The treatment of patients with end-stage idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and lung cancer (LC) is a difficult task, and it remains questionable whether LC…
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Lower Extremity Vascular Complications after Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant
H. J. Braun, D. Amara, T. Sorrentino, J. L. Ramirez, J. Lin, A. Mello, P. G. Stock, J. S. Hiramoto
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is the leading indication for simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation (SPK). Prior work has demonstrated a 2% incidence of lower…
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Urine Donor Derived Cell Free DNA Aids in the Diagnosis of BK Polyomavirus Nephropathy in Kidney Transplant Recipients with BK Viruria
G. Huang¹, X. Chen¹, W. Chen¹, P. Chen¹, T. Jiang², C. Wang¹, L. Chen¹
¹The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, ²AlloDx Biotech Co., Ltd, Suzhou, China
*Purpose: BK polyomavirus nephropathy (BKVN) are important cause of dysfunction and failure of renal transplants, which is similar to T cell mediated rejection (TCMR) in…
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ANG-3777 Treatment Attenuates Ischemia-Reperfusion-Induced Renal Injury in Rat and Dog Models
P. Narayan¹, M. Mangino², I. D. Goldberg¹
¹Angion Biomedica, Uniondale, NY, ²Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The effect of ANG-3777, a small-molecule mimetic of hepatocyte growth factor, was evaluated on reducing ischemia-reperfusion-induced renal injury and mortality in rats and dogs…
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Inflammatory Cytokines Have a Different Effect from One HLA-II Subclass to Another on Human Endothelium
S. Beland, F. Bouchard-Boivin, A. Gama, O. Desy, S. A. De Serres
Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Development of de novo donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) is associated with antibody-mediated rejection and allograft failure. More particularly, HLA-II DSAs, especially those against DQ are…
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Early Worsening of Diabetic Retinopathy after Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation: Myth or Reality?
F. Saudek¹, B. Voglová¹, K. Kesslerová², T. Sosna², K. Lipár³
¹Diabetes Center, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Praha 4, Czech Republic, ²Ophthalmology, Thomayer Hospital, Praha 4, Czech Republic, ³Transplant Center, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Praha 4, Czech Republic
*Purpose: Type-1 diabetic pancreas and kidney transplant candidates frequently suffer from advanced diabetic retinopathy. Early worsening of diabetic retinopathy (EWDR) attributed to sudden glucose normalization…
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Comparable Outcomes for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation with HCV NAT-Positive Donors
M. L. Samoylova¹, B. I. Shaw¹, S. J. Kesseli¹, L. McElroy¹, Y. Patel², S. Sanoff², A. S. Barbas¹
¹Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To evaluate the impact of hepatitis C virus (HCV) Nucleic Acid Amplification-positive (NAT+) donors on outcomes following simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplantation.*Methods: We used the…