Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 141 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

2020 American Transplant Congress
Calculated Panel Reactive Antibody Values Increase for Kidney Transplant Candidates with HLA-DQA and HLA-DPB Unacceptable Antigens
E. P. Kransdorf¹, C. Murphey², M. Maiers³, L. Gragert⁴
¹Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Beverly Hills, CA, ²Immunogenetics Lab, Southwest Immunodiagnostics, Inc., San Antonio, TX, ³Bioinformatics Research, Be The Match/National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Department of Pathology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Calculated panel-reactive antibody (CPRA) is the official metric of sensitization used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for kidney allocation. CPRA includes…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Use of Sitagliptin versus Placebo to Reduce the Incidence and Severity of Post-Transplant Diabetes after Kidney Transplantation
H. Wijeweera, J. Hagopian, M. Ramakrishnan, L. Chen, R. Delos Santos
Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO
*Purpose: Post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is a complication in non-diabetic kidney transplant (KT) recipients due weight gain and use of CNI and corticosteroids in immunosuppression…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes and Experience with Belatacept in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
R. Garro¹, P. Winterberg¹, R. Liverman², A. Serluco², B. Warshaw¹, R. George¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Belatacept is a selective co-stimulation blocker used in adult renal transplantation and has shown improvement in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) compared to calcineurin inhibitors…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Functional Changes in Metabolic and Malignancy Associated Bacterial Genes in the Post Transplant Intestinal Microbiome
M. Bhat¹, S. Sivaraj¹, E. Pasini¹, J. Copeland², J. Allard³, A. Humar¹
¹Multi-Organ Transplant, UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Long-term survival of liver transplant (LT) recipients is affected by metabolic and malignant complications. The aim of our study was to examine changes in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Interventions to Improve Patient Care Conducted by Pharmacists at an Outpatient Renal Transplant Clinic within a Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement
K. Johnson, R. Chelewski, A. Langone, M. Peter, A. Zuckerman
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: A collaborative pharmacy practice agreement (CPPA) permits pharmacists to perform clinical services under the guidance of a supervising physician without direct physician intervention. We…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Medication Adherence in Thoracic Transplant Candidates
K. Pennington¹, R. Benzo¹, S. Jowsey¹, M. Budev², S. Chandreashekaran³, D. Erasmus⁴, E. Lease⁵, D. Levine⁶, K. Thompson¹, D. Yip⁴, B. Hardaway⁷, S. Dunlay¹, C. Kennedy¹
¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ³University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁵University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁶University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, ⁷Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
*Purpose: Medication non-adherence is associated with poor outcomes in transplant recipients. It can be challenging to identify candidates at risk for medication non-adherence. The simplified…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Circulatory Extracellular Vesicles from Lung Allograft Recipients with Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction Can Induce LKB1 Dependent Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
M. Rahman, S. Angara, A. Arjuna, M. Smith, R. Bremner, T. Mohanakumar
Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play important role in physiological and pathological conditions. Recently we demonstrated that circulating exosomes (EVs) with lung self-antigens (SAgs) play important…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Trust and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence-Aided Immunosuppression Decisions
J. Clement
Information and Decision Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: In transplant, there is significant interest in using Artificial Intelligence (including machine learning or predictive models) Clinical Decision Support Systems(AI CDSS). Properly designing and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Physician Survey on Using APOL1 Genetic Testing in Live Kidney Donor Selection
M. Doshi¹, E. Gordon², B. Freedman³, C. Thomas⁴, C. Glover⁵, J. Locke⁶
¹Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵N/A, Miami, FL, ⁶Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Live kidney donors of recent African ancestry are at an increased risk of developing end stage kidney disease than matched healthy non-donors. A recent…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Depletional Induction Improves Kidney Graft and Patient Survival in Recipients with a Previous Liver Transplant in the United States
S. M. Riad¹, N. Lim¹, S. Jackson², A. Matas³, J. Lake¹
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Induction choices for kidney-after-liver transplant recipients are variable. We examined the impact of kidney induction types on kidney graft and patient survival in liver…