Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 201 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Risk of Invasive Fungal Infection after Heart Transplantation
Z. A. Yetmar¹, B. Lahr², E. Beam³
¹Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Invasive fungal infection (IFI) after heart transplantation is a feared complication associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Risk factors for invasive fungal infection after…
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An OPO’s Experience in Increasing Transplantation with the Hope Project
R. P. Wood, M. Ferguson, K. Myer, R. Cruz, P. Gillentine
CMO, LifeGift, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The purpose of this report is to describe one OPO’s experience in participating in the Hope Project. This research project is designed to evaluate…
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A Follow-Up Over Time to the Impact of Reactive Anti-HCV and HCV NAT
C. C. Muse, C. A. Hostetler, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski
LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: A previous review from one U.S. organ procurement organization (OPO) concluded positive HCV test results yielded high rates of authorized/not recovered donors (ANR), low…
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Estimating Opioid-Related Deaths from Toxicology Reports
C. Martinez, A. M. Zehner, A. Placona
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The “Drug Intoxication” mechanism of death from the DDR is a proxy for opioid-related death. Previous investigations have leveraged this proxy to assess impact…
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Ambient Air Pollution and Post-Transplant Mortality among US Kidney Transplant Recipients
M. R. Jones¹, Y. Feng², N. Chu², D. Segev², M. McAdams-DeMarco¹
¹Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has been associated with increased mortality in the general US population and has been shown to negatively…
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Xenoantibody Depletion of Human Blood with Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Porcine Kidney and Lung Prior to Liver Perfusion
T. M. Coe¹, N. Serifis¹, S. Raigani¹, C. Carroll¹, C. G. Rickert¹, R. Matheson¹, D. Detelich², W. Qin³, Y. Kan³, J. Layer³, M. Youd³, W. Westlin³, L. Yang³, A. Azimzadeh¹, J. F. Markmann¹
¹Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Surgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³eGenesis, Cambridge, MA
*Purpose: Genetic modifications of porcine donors for pig-to-human xenotransplantation have led to significant progress in survival of xenografts in preclinical models. Triple knock-out (TKO) of…
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Impact of Desensitization Strategies with Proteosome Inhibition and Costimulation Blockade on Xenoreactive Humoral Responses
B. P. Lovasik¹, A. J. Matar¹, D. A. Faber¹, D. V. Mathews¹, C. P. Breeden¹, S. C. Kim¹, A. J. Tector², A. B. Adams¹
¹Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: “Delayed” antibody-mediated xenograft rejection is the one of the most important obstacles to clinical application of pig organ xenografts. The aim of this study…
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Native Nephrectomy at the Time of Transplant: Risk for Adrenal Injury?
T. Salinas¹, D. Dadhania¹, J. Lee¹, M. Aull¹, S. Kapur², M. Lubetzky¹
¹Nephrology, NY Presbyterian- Weill Cornell, New York, NY, ²Surgery, NY Presbyterian- Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: Living donor studies have demonstrated that native nephrectomy (Nx) is associated with transient but symptomatic loss of adrenal function. Although surgical complications from simultaneous…
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Persistent Fibrinolysis Shutdown in Liver Transplant Recipients is Associated with Early Allograph Dysfunction
H. B. Moore¹, T. Nydam¹, J. Pomposelli¹, C. Walker¹, A. Schulick¹, R. Choudhury¹, H. Yaffe¹, M. Adams², M. Cohen³, E. Pomfret¹
¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Childrens Hospital, Aurora, CO, ³Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Early allograph dysfunction (EAD) in liver transplantation has been attributed to microvascular thrombosis. Treating grafts at risk of EAD with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)…
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Identifying Factors Associated with Delayed Graft Function Severity Using the OPTN Database
K. Checchi¹, D. Stewart², A. Toll², J. Case¹, S. Kurian¹, C. Marsh¹
¹Scripps Health, La Jolla, CA, ²United Network for Organ Sharing Research Department, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is a costly adverse outcome in kidney transplantation with negative implications for both graft and patient survival. Identifying factors associated…