2020 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Interviews to Explore the Public Attitudes on the Use of Imminent Death Donation
*Purpose: Imminent death donation (IDD) describes non-fatal recovery of a living donor organ (a single kidney or partial liver) prior to a planned withdrawal of…2020 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation in the United States
Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: Despite research into the effects of race, ethnicity, and insurance status in liver transplantation, disparities persist. Access to care even in insured populations endures…2020 American Transplant Congress
Survey of Public Attitudes Towards Imminent Death Donation in the United States
*Purpose: Imminent Death Donation (IDD) has been proposed as a method to increase the number of high-quality organs available for transplant. Although IDD was ethically…2020 American Transplant Congress
First Experience with a New Storage Device for Cold Heart Preservation
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*Purpose: The standard technology for heart preservation for transplantation is cold static storange on ice. No temperature control is performed routinley and therefore lower or…2020 American Transplant Congress
Management and Outcomes of Heart Transplant Recipients with Pre-Transplant Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections
Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Infection involving Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) in patients who receive device therapy as a bridge to heart transplantation (HT) is a serious complication.…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Forgiven Disease: Outcomes of Lung Transplantation in Two HIV-Infected Patients
*Purpose: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity is generally considered a contraindication to lung transplantation (LTx). HIV-infected adults are at higher risk of developing chronic lung…2020 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Results of Lung Transplantation in a Newly Established, High-Volume Lung Transplantation Center in China
*Purpose: The number of patients with end-stage lung disease is huge in China, lung transplantation is the only effective method. By presenting the perioperative results…2020 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Metabolic Outcomes after Pancreas Transplantation between DBD (Donors after Brainstem Death) and DCD (Donors after Circulatory Death) Grafts
*Purpose: DCD pancreas transplantation has become common with equivalent graft survival as that of DBD grafts, but are the metabolic outcomes similar? Given the lack…2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA for Detection of Cell-Mediated Rejection in Low Risk Kidney Transplant Patients
Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT
*Purpose: Donor-derived cell free DNA (dd-cfDNA) is an emerging non-invasive biomarker for kidney allograft rejection. This has not been externally validated in low risk population.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) and Granulocyte-Macrophage CSF (GM-CSF) Administration Enriches for Highly Suppressive CD4+CD45RA–Foxp3hi Cells in Leukapheresis Products of Rhesus Monkeys
Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: In humans, CD4+CD45RA-Foxp3hi T cells comprise a regulatory T cell (Treg) subset with highly suppressive function. We have previously shown that granulocyte-colony stimulating factor…
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