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2020 American Transplant Congress
UK Residents Transplanted Overseas: A Summary of UK Data from 2000-2016
A. Cronin¹, L. Mumford², M. Robb², L. Burnapp², R. Johnson²
¹Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Organ shortage has prompted UK residents to source organs overseas. Little is known about the circumstances in which these transplants take place, but stories…
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Direct Acting Anti-Viral Prophylaxis to Prevent Virus Transmission from Hepatitis C Viremic Donors to Hepatitis C Negative Kideney Transplant Recipients
G. Gupta, I. Yakubu, D. Kumar, I. Moinuddin, L. Kamal, A. King, C. Bhati, A. Sharma, A. Cotterell, A. Khan, M. Levy, R. Sterling
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Previous trials in kidney transplantation (KT) have described a 12-week course of direct-acting anti-viral drugs (DAA) to treat HCV transmission from infected donors to…
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Clinically Adjudicated Deceased Donor AKI and Graft Outcomes
S. G. Mansour¹, N. Khoury¹, S. Vermani¹, R. Koladi¹, I. Hall², P. Reese³, S. Mohan⁴, M. Doshi⁵, M. Harhay⁶, J. Bromberg⁷, M. Thangamani⁸, P. Singh⁹, Y. Jia¹⁰, H. Thiessen-Philbrook¹⁰, E. Akalin¹¹, F. Weng¹², B. Schroeppel¹³, J. Greenberg¹, D. Moledina¹, F. P. Wilson¹, C. Parikh¹⁰
¹Yale, New Haven, CT, ²Utah Univ, Salt Lake City, UT, ³UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Columbia, New York, NY, ⁵Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶Drexel, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁸Cornell, NY, NY, ⁹Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁰Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ¹¹Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ¹²St Barnabas, Livingston, NJ, ¹³Univ Hosp, Ulm, Germany
*Purpose: We previously reported that AKI in deceased donors isn't associated with graft failure. As deceased donors undergo significant hemodynamic changes, we hypothesized that reversible…
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Compatible Pairs- Providingan Option to Upgrade
V. Chipman¹, M. Cooper², S. Flechner³, G. Hil⁴, D. Leeser⁵, D. Mandelbrot⁶, M. Ronin⁴, D. Segev⁷, S. Syed⁸, A. Thomas⁹, A. Waterman¹⁰, G. R. Roll¹¹
¹Kidney Transplant, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Georgertown, Washington, DC, ³Cleavland Clinic, Cleavland, OH, ⁴NKR, Babylon, NY, ⁵East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC, ⁶University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁷Johns Hopkins, Boltimore, MD, ⁸UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁹Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁰UCLA and Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ¹¹Surgery, Division of Transplant, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Compatible pairs (CPs) can enter an exchange program instead of donating directly. These pairs increase transplants (txp) by providing additional donors within an exchange…
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HCV-Positive Donors Are Healthier and Inequitably Utilized in the United States
B. L. Da, T. Kushner, G. Kakked, J. Crismale, G. Ezaz, T. Schiano, B. Saberi
Liver Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Increased utilization of HCV-positive (HCV+) liver allografts has been endorsed as a solution to the national organ shortage. Due to the opioid epidemic, there…
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Evaluation of Intraoperative versus Extended Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Liver Transplantation
S. Hamel¹, C. Garza¹, C. Gamble², H. Boone³, L. Thomas⁴, D. L. Gorden⁵
¹Pharmacy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Quality, Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Nashville, TN, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁵Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Perioperative antibiotic use has important implications for patient care, antimicrobial stewardship, and cost containment. There is limited data guiding the optimal duration of perioperative…
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Possible Mechanism of Sensitization against Angiotensin Type II Receptor after LVAD Implantation
P. Kimball¹, V. Chau², F. McDougan¹, M. Flattery², K. Shah²
¹Surgery, VCUHS, Richmond, VA, ²Cardiology, VCUHS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Detection of antibody (Ab) against angiotensin-II receptor (AT1R) following VAD implantation portends poorer outcomes for heart transplantation (HT). However, the cause of this sensitization…
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Multidimensional System to Dynamically Predict Graft Survival after Kidney Transplantation
M. Raynaud¹, O. Aubert¹, S. Jordan², M. Stegall³, J. Friedewald⁴, D. Glotz¹, C. Legendre¹, D. Segev⁵, C. Lefaucheur¹, A. Loupy, On behalf of the study NCT03474003¹
¹Paris Transplant Group, Paris, France, ²Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁵Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Current prediction systems of kidney-graft loss do not integrate the dynamic effect of parameters assessed over the time course of kidney recipients. Recent dynamic…
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Belatacept versus Tacrolimus Combined with Antithymocyte Globulin in Kidney Transplantation
J. Goldman¹, A. Mitrokhin², B. Trivedi¹, V. Vidyasagar¹, N. Vadivel¹, N. Goes³, M. Hart¹
¹Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, ²SUNY, Brooklyn, NY, ³Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA
*Purpose: Belatacept (BELA) used for maintenance immunosuppression (IS) after kidney transplant (KT) shows similar graft and patient survival, but improved allograft function, despite more rejection…
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HLA Cw12 in Kidney Transplant Recipients is a Novel Risk Factor for the Development of Post-Transplantation Diabetes: A Single-Centre Retrospective Study
N. Phagura¹, A. Culliford², F. Evison³, S. Gallier³, J. Nath², D. Briggs⁴, A. Sharif²
¹College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ²Department of Nephrology and Transplantation, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ³Department of Health Informatics, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴H&I Birmingham, NHS Blood and Transplant, Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Counselling kidney transplant candidates for their personalised risk of developing post-transplantation diabetes mellitus (PTDM) requires an understanding of risk factors. While some risk factors…