Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 148 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy in Cirrhotic Patients: Does Rifaximin Prevent Clostridioides Difficile Infection? A Retrospective Analysis
J. D. Goldman, V. Aleksenko, J. L. Davila, N. A. Muhktar, K. Kowdley
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and new prevention strategies in high-risk patients are needed. Rifaximin has been…
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Brincidofovir for Adenovirus Disease in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients: A Case Series
F. Zervou¹, I. Zacharioudakis¹, S. A. Mehta², H. J. Neumann²
¹Infectious Diseases, New York University Langone, New York, NY, ²New York University Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: Adenovirus infection can lead to disease in solid organ transplant recipients, including disease of the allograft. Treatment options for severe disease are limited. Brincidofovir…
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Evaluation of Optimization of Workflow for Timing of Inpatient Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Maintenance Immunosuppressive Drugs in Abdominal Transplant Recipients
J. Schulte, S. Mehta, E. Vargas, K. Cunningham
Department of Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is essential to the safety and efficacy of immunosuppressants (IS) given their narrow therapeutic index. After an internal review, it…
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Barriers for Kidney Transplant Evaluation among People Living with HIV and End-Stage Renal Disease in Mississippi
L. A. Shimose¹, M. X. Bueno Rios¹, J. Clark¹, A. Torres², D. Garcia-Anton², W. Cheungpasitporn², P. Vaitla², F. Cabeza-Rivera²
¹Infectious Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ²Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: The number of Kidney transplants (KTx) among people living with HIV (PLWH) who develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has been increasing in many transplant…
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Alcohol Relapse after Liver Transplant for Alcohol-Related Cirrhosis: A Longitudinal Assessment of Risk Factors for Relapse and Long-Term Survival
B. Rice, N. Mehta, J. L. Dodge, J. D. Grab, C. Sherman
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Relapse to alcohol after liver transplant (LT) is common but likely underreported in patients with alcohol-related cirrhosis (AC). The aim of this study was…
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Risk Epitope Mismatch Does Not Predict Short Term Heart Transplant Outcomes
Y. Moayedi¹, J. McCaughan², E. Henricksen³, B. Mueller⁴, S. Fan⁴, H. J. Ross¹, K. Khush⁵, B. M. Zhang⁶, J. Teuteberg⁵
¹Cardiology, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²HLA Lab, Belfast Trust, Belfast, Ireland, ³Pharmacy, Stanford Healthcare, Stanford, CA, ⁴Computational Program TRCHR, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Cardiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁶HLA Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Heart transplantation (HT) remains the gold standard treatment for end-stage heart failure. Despite significant improvements in short-term outcomes, the median survival after heart transplantation…
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Voriconazole Associated Adverse Drug Events and Drug Monitoring in Lung Transplant Recipients
C. Y. Luo¹, R. G. Nador², R. D. Levy², J. Yee², L. Wei², N. Partovi¹
¹Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: Voriconazole is the drug of choice for prophylaxis and treatment of Aspergillus infection in lung transplant ( LTx) recipients. Voriconazole has a narrow therapeutic…
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A Large Animal Model of Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion as a Platform to Deliver Therapeutic Agents to Lungs Before Lung Transplant
T. M. Egan¹, B. Haithcock¹, M. H. Ali¹, J. W. Blackwell¹, B. Masuodi¹, S. Shipley², T. Long³, A. Akerman¹, S. Montgomery⁴, H. Yuan⁵, P. Stewart⁶, J. Potenziano⁷, C. Sekaran⁷, R. Fitch⁷
¹Surgery, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Radiology, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶Gillings Global School of Public Health, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁷Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Hazelwood, MO
*Purpose: Ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) has been used to evaluate lung function before lung transplant (LT). We used EVLP to expose lungs recovered 6 hours…
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Clinical and Demographic Factors Affecting Patient and Graft Survival in Pancreas Transplant Recipients: The Efispan Study
P. Ventura-Aguiar¹, M. Cabello², I. Beneyto³, D. Navarro Cabello⁴, G. Tabernero⁵, A. Alonso⁶, J. Ruiz⁷, S. Llorente⁸
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Department of Nephrology, Hospital Carlos Haya, Malaga, Spain, ³Department of Nephrology, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁴Department of Nephrology, Hospital Reina Sofía, Cordoba, Spain, ⁵Department of Nephrology, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, ⁶Department of Nephrology, Hospital Universitario de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain, ⁷Department of Nephrology, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁸Department of Nephrology, Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
*Purpose: Pancreas transplantation is an established treatment for diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease. Graft outcomes have improved in the last decades, but data regarding…
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Long Term Liver Transplant Survivors
M. Haberal¹, E. Ayvazoglu Soy¹, G. Moray¹, F. Ozcay², A. Torgay³
¹Department of General Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey, ²Pediatric Nephrology, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey, ³Anaesthesia, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
*Purpose: Few reports mentioned about long term survey. In this study, we aimed to report the outcomes of our long term LT survivors (LTS).*Methods: Our…