Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 27 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Nursing Education on Organ Donation
J. Yeh¹, M. Corcoran², M. Jarrett², V. Nair¹, L. Teperman¹
¹Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ²Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY
*Purpose: Organ transplantation is the gold-standard for patients with end-stage organ disease. For organ donation to occur, potential donors need to be identified and referred…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of and Risk Factor for Pancreas Transplants with Marginal Donors
A. Gruessner, S. Saggi, J. Renz, R. Gruessner
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Over the years, the selection criteria for a pancreas donor changed with the decline in numbers of transplants. More and more younger donors with…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Immunosuppression with Immunological Testing and Surveillance Biopsies Late after Liver and Intestine Transplantation (LT, IT)
L. Remaley, R. Falik, K. Soltys, G. Bond, J. Winnier, P. Kachmar, C. Ashokkumar, A. Ganoza, A. Kepler, A. Khanna, J. Squires, P. McKiernan, J. Rudolph, F. Alissa, G. Mazariegos, R. Sindhi
Pediatric Transplant, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Assessing adequacy of immunosuppression is essential during late allograft surveillance after LT or IT.*Methods: To explain why allograft function tests can be normal despite…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Outcomes Across the Age Distribution and Interactions with County Health
S. K. Niazi¹, E. Vargas², A. Spaulding³, J. Crook², T. Schneekloth⁴, A. Keaveny⁵, A. Vasquez⁶, M. Gentry⁴, T. Rummans⁶, C. Taner⁵
¹Psychiatry & Psychology; Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ²Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Heath Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁴Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ⁶Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
*Purpose: We examined risk of graft failure and patient mortality after liver transplant (LT) across the age continuum and county Health Outcomes & Health Factors…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Analyzing Causes for Death-Censored Graft Failure
M. Mayrdorfer, L. Liefeldt, N. Lachmann, W. Düttmann-Rehnolt, F. Halleck, M. G. Naik, P. Glander, K. Budde
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Since it has been proposed that several causes could contribute to graft loss (GL), we analyzed graft failure in our center and attributed a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Preclinical Study for Liver Allograft Tolerance after Rapid Immunosuppression Withdrawal Using Cynomolgus Monkeys
H. Sakai¹, E. Berglund¹, S. Chaudhry¹, Y. Kato¹, J. Weiner¹, P. Alonso-Guallart¹, N. Llore¹, K. Bruestle¹, F. Fredriksson¹, J. Stern¹, D. Ekanayake-Alper¹, M. Martinez², G. Pierre¹, M. Danton¹, S. Kofman¹, D. Ordanes¹, J. Lefkowitch³, A. Iuga¹, T. Kato⁴, M. Sykes¹, A. Griesemer¹
¹Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, ²Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY, ³Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Operational tolerance of liver allografts occurs in highly selected patients but cannot be reliably induced. Herein, we investigated if tolerance to liver can be…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Black Patients with Cirrhosis Have Worse Liver-Related Outcomes: A Large Multicenter Study
N. R. Mazumder¹, K. Atiemo², K. Jackson³, A. Daud⁴, A. Kho³, L. G. Gabra⁵, J. Levitsky¹, D. P. Ladner⁴
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Surgery, Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute, New Orleans, LA, ³Center for Health Information Partnerships, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁵Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Racial disparity is influential in liver cirrhosis. Estimates of its magnitude have been limited by lack of large, longitudinal data that track patients from…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Patterns of Belatacept Use and Risk of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) in US Kidney Transplant Recipients – Analysis of Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Database
W. S. Cherikh¹, T. Kou², J. Foutz¹, A. Gomez-Caminero²
¹United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), Richmond, VA, ²Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
*Purpose: Belatacept, a selective T-cell costimulation blocker, was approved in 2011 for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-seropositive kidney transplant recipients. PTLD…
2020 American Transplant Congress
High Laminin Alpha 5 Expression is Observed in the Pancreas of Chronic Pancreatitis Patients and Correlates with Poor Autologous Islet Transplant Outcome
Y. Liu, K. Kumano, S. Vasu, C. M. Darden, M. Lawrence, B. Naziruddin
Baylor University Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: During chronic pancreatitis (CP), the extracellular matrix (ECM) of the pancreas is destroyed by a vicious cycle of parenchymal autodigestion by digestive exocrine enzymes…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Role of the Molecular Microscope to Guide Therapy for T-Cell Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplants
D. Kumar¹, M. Demehin¹, J. Christensen¹, L. Kamal¹, I. Moinuddin¹, M. Levy¹, C. Bhati¹, A. King¹, H. D. Massey¹, P. Halloran², G. Gupta¹
¹Virginia Commonwealth University, Glen Allen, VA, ²ATAGC, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Histologic lesions (I+T) to characterize T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) can be non-specific. In some cases the inflammation may represent a ‘response to wounding’ rather…