2020 American Transplant Congress
CD47 Innate Immune Checkpoint Enhances Islet Engraftment Following Intraportal Transplantation by Mitigating Instant Blood Mediated Inflammatory Reaction
*Purpose: Transplantation of islets into hepatic portal vein is associated with significant islet mass loss immediate post-transplantation. Instant blood mediated inflammatory reaction (IBMIR), characterized by…2020 American Transplant Congress
Allograft Repopulating Recipient B Cells after Human Intestinal Transplantation and Their Association with Donor Specific Antibody Secretion and Rejection
*Purpose: Alloantibodies produced by recipient B cells are associated with rejection after intestinal transplantation (ITx) and negatively impact patient and graft survival. However, the dynamics…2020 American Transplant Congress
UNOS Hard to Place Kidneys: Are We Working Too Hard?
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Kidneys requiring more than 100 offers before acceptance are defined by UNOS as “hard to place," but many are suitable for transplantation. We sought…2020 American Transplant Congress
Optimal Timing of Renal Transplantation in Simultaneous Heart-Kidney Transplant: A Retrospective Analysis of the UNOS/OPTN Database
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: In patients receiving a simultaneous heart-kidney transplant (SHKT) the optimal timing of performing the kidney transplant remains controversial. In the immediate approach (iHKT), the…2020 American Transplant Congress
2019 Refined Criteria for Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy Predict Post Liver Transplant Cardiac Events
*Purpose: Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM) encompasses systolic ± diastolic dysfunction (DD) in patients with end stage liver disease in the absence of known cardiac disease. The…2020 American Transplant Congress
Antibiotic Stewardship and Inpatient C. Difficile Testing in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, the Value of Multi-Level Checks and Balances
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: Diarrhea in the solid organ transplant recipient is a commonly encountered problem and is often multifactorial in etiology. Due to the combination of peri-operative…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Thy1 Expression of Fibroblast for Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
*Purpose: Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) result from excessive immune activation and excessive collagen deposition by fibroblasts within the lung parenchyma or airway.Bronchiolitis obliterans (OB)…2020 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged Multitransgenic Pig Lung Survival with Attenuated Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Rise During Human Blood Perfusion
*Purpose: Physiologic behavior of porcine lungs with multiple xeno-targeted genetic modifications, Pig 2.0, have not previously been evaluated.*Methods: Eight pairs of lungs from Pig 2.0…2020 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Conversion: Are Patients BENEFIT-ing
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Belatacept is increasingly used in renal transplant recipients experiencing adverse effects from calcineurin inhibitors(CNI) despite limited medium- and long- term data on safety and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Gender Disparity in Living Donor Kidney Transplants
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Over the last decades, the number of kidney transplants has increased. However, more male than female patients receive a transplant. While the male/female ratio…
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