2020 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Vasculobiliary Problems Associated with Hepatic Artery Stenosis Following Liver Transplant
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Hepatic artery stenosis (HAS) is a recognized vascular complication of liver transplant (LT) which can result in significant morbidity and mortality. Despite that there…2020 American Transplant Congress
Changes in the Development and Incidence of Bacterial Infections – A 16-Year Analysis
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Bacterial infections may occur at any time but mostly within the first month post-transplant. However, since recent advances in transplant there has not been…2020 American Transplant Congress
Incident Influenza Cases and Missed Opportunities for Vaccination among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify missed opportunities for high-dose (HD) influenza vaccination among solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients and improve influenza…2020 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis B Virus Prophylaxis and Treatment among Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients: Impact on Engraftment and Outcomes
*Purpose: Hepatitis B virus infection is a worldwide concern with a broad distribution. It can reactivate in immunocompromised populations such as solid organ and hematopoietic…2020 American Transplant Congress
Promotoras De DonacióN: An E-Learning Module on Organ Donation
*Purpose: Latinx are overrepresented on the transplant waitlist, an underrepresented as posthumous organ donors. Promotoras (community health workers) have proven effective at advocating and spearheading…2020 American Transplant Congress
Automated Electronic Donor Referrals Have Increased Donation
Transplant Connect, Santa Monica, CA
*Purpose: It is broadly understood and supported by previous studies that disruptive inefficiencies exist in the hospital to Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) donor referral process,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Life Supporting Orthotopic Cardiac Xenotransplantation from Genetically Engineered Donor Pigs
*Purpose: Cardiac xenotransplantation (CXTx) might be an alternative treatment for end-stage cardiac failure patients. The prolonged survival of a heterotopic genetically-engineered (GE) pig heart is…2020 American Transplant Congress
Successful Long-Term TMA- and Rejection- Free Survival of a Kidney Xenograft with Triple Xenoantigen Knockout Plus Insertion of Multiple Human Transgenes
1Surgery, MGH, Boston, MA, 2eGenesis Inc., Cambridge, MA
*Purpose: Recent advances in genome engineering technology allow for the generation of porcine organ donors with multiplex gene edits. Here we evaluated survival of kidneys…2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Access to Transplantation and Outcomes for African American Patients
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Black or African American patients are clearly disadvantaged in comparison to Caucasian patients both in terms of the access to kidney transplantation and post-transplant…2020 American Transplant Congress
Urinary Exosomal Hemopexin, a Validated Diagnostic Marker for Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Urinary exosomal hemopexin was identified as a potential diagnostic candidate for kidney allograft rejection in our previous proteomic study. We validated hemopexin as a…
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