2020 American Transplant Congress
Maximizing Utilization of Marginal Kidneys in a Small, Geographically Isolated Transplant Program: 10 Year Experience
Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV
*Purpose: The initial experience with the kidney allocation system (KAS) resulted in an alarming decrease in the number of transplants in our small and isolated…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Effect of Kidney Transplantation on Peripheral Arterial Disease
*Purpose: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) that needs treatment is common and major complication in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Most surgeons have been using…2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Center Experiences with Social Media Campaigns for Living Donation
*Purpose: The OPTN Living Donor Committee surveyed U.S. transplant (TX) programs to assess their experiences with social media campaigns intended to identify potential living donors…2020 American Transplant Congress
Use of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers Therapy Prior to Kidney Transplantation Does Not Impact Recovery of Function
*Purpose: The impact of chronically administered medications for renin-angiotensin-aldosterone blockade (e.g. ACE-I, ARB), taken prior to kidney transplant (KTx), on immediate allograft function is unknown.*Methods:…2020 American Transplant Congress
Clinicopathologic Features and Risk Factors of Proteinuria in Transplant Glomerulopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study
*Purpose: Proteinuria is common after transplantation. Transplant Glomerulopathy (TG), one of the main causes of post-transplant proteinuria, is also a major contributor to graft loss.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Need for Pre-Transplant Midodrine Does Not Negatively Impact Outcomes after Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant
1University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Patients with cirrhosis often develop chronic hypotension, which contributes to kidney dysfunction. Midodrine can improve hemodynamics and renal perfusion in these hypotensive patients. There…2020 American Transplant Congress
Sparing the Nephron in Liver Transplant Recipients with Antithymocyte Bridging: A Four Year Experience
*Purpose: Renal function decline after liver transplant (LT) remains a significant issue. Using antithymocyte globulin (rATG) to delay tacrolimus (TAC) initiation may impact renal deterioration;…2020 American Transplant Congress
Initial Experience of the First 13 Cases of Purely Laparoscopic Living Donor Right Hepatectomy
*Purpose: Laparoscopic major hepatectomy is gradually increasing with two consensus meetings. However, purely laparoscopic donor right hepatectomy (PLDRH) is still being performed carefully, because donor…2020 American Transplant Congress
Marginal Livers Have Excellent Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Metabolic Liver Disease
*Purpose: Pediatric patients with metabolic diseases are listed so that livers are preferentially allocated to them, having the option of receiving a very high quality…2020 American Transplant Congress
Epidemiology of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients (SOTR) at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH)
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Despite widespread use of prevention strategies, CMV remains a common opportunistic infection in SOTR. Contemporary data regarding CMV in pediatric SOTR is limited. We…
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