Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 30 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

2020 American Transplant Congress
Willingness to Accept and Beliefs Regarding Organs from HIV-Infected Donors: A Multi-Center Survey of Transplant Candidates Living with HIV
S. Rasmussen¹, S. Seaman¹, M. Bowring¹, D. Brown¹, A. Massie¹, A. Tobian¹, M. Henderson¹, F. Fletcher², B. Smith², A. Chao³, N. Gorupati³, K. Prakash⁴, S. Aslam⁴, D. Lee⁵, S. Trinh⁶, V. Kirchner⁷, T. Pruett⁷, G. Haidar⁸, K. Hughes⁸, M. Malinis⁹, D. Segev¹, J. Sugarman¹, C. Durand¹
¹JHU, Baltimore, MD, ²UAB, Birmingham, AL, ³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UCSD, San Diego, CA, ⁵Drexel, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Ochsner, New Orleans, LA, ⁷UMN, Minneapolis, MN, ⁸UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁹Yale, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: HIV-infected (HIV+) donor to HIV+ recipient (HIV D+/R+) transplantation might improve access to transplantation for candidates living with HIV. However, it is unclear whether…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Viremic Hepatitis C (HCV) Donors a Viable Option for Lung Transplant Recipients Treated with Real World Delayed Therapy
S. A. Kakoullis, E. M. Eichenberger, J. M. Steinbrink, E. Maziarz, H. Ali, H. Berry, J. Haney, J. Klapper, J. M. Reynolds, C. R. Wolfe
Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: We present an IRB-approved trial of nucleic acid test (NAT) positive HCV donors (D+) used for HCV-negative recipients (R-) at Duke University for patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Uromodulin to Osteopontin Ratio in Deceased Donor Urine is Associated with Kidney Graft Outcomes
S. G. Mansour¹, C. Liu², Y. Jia², P. Reese³, I. Hall⁴, T. El-Achkar⁵, K. LaFavers⁵, W. Obeid², M. Thangamani⁶, A. Rosenberg², M. Doshi⁷, E. Akalin⁸, J. Bromberg⁹, M. Harhay¹⁰, S. Mohan¹¹, B. Schröppel¹², P. Daneshpajouhnejad², P. Singh¹³, F. Weng¹⁴, H. Thiessen-Philbrook², C. Parikh²
¹Yale, New Haven, CT, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ³UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁵Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN, ⁶Cornell, New York, NY, ⁷Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁸Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ⁹Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD, ¹⁰Drexel, Philadelphia, PA, ¹¹Columbia, NY, NY, ¹²Univ Hosp, Ulm, Germany, ¹³Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁴St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: Deceased-donor kidneys often experience extensive injury, activating adaptive and maladaptive pathways. While these adaptive and maladaptive mechanisms are initiated in donor kidneys prior to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Cell RNA Transcriptomics to Further the Precision Transplantation Medicine Approaches in Kidney Allograft Recipients
H. Suryawanshi, H. Yang, M. Lubetzky, S. Seshan, T. Tuschl, M. Suthanthiran, T. Muthukumar
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Test the hypothesis that single cell RNA transcriptomics will further the precision transplantation medicine approaches and address important conundrums in clinical transplantation.*Methods: We studied…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Preferences of Potential Living Kidney Donors on Strategies to Reduce Donation-Related Financial Burden
A. D. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, B. Campbell⁴, F. L. Weng⁵
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: To identify the severity of financial and employment challenges present for potential living kidney donors and the value of strategies to make kidney donation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Biomarkers AFP in Combination with AFP-l3 and DCP Predicts Tumor Progression in Treatment Native HCC Patients
K. Nunez, T. Sandow, P. Thevenot, A. Cohen
Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treatment with locoregional therapy (LRT) is standard treatment to downstage within Milan Criteria. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed early-stage HCC…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Exploring the Uneven Geographic Distribution of Hepatitis C-Viremic Deceased Donors in the US
A. Ohringer, D. Goldberg
University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: There has been a marked increase in the utilization of organs from hepatitis C virus (HCV) viremic donors due to the rise of drug-related…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Patient Reported Medication Nonadherence and Tolerability: Results of a Prospective Observational Study
D. Taber, N. Patel, K. Foster, F. Bartlett, C. Perez, H. Meadows, N. Pilch, A. Posadas, K. Soliman, V. Rao, M. Casey, V. Rohan, J. McGillicuddy, S. Nadig, D. Dubay
MUSC, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Medication nonadherence (MNA) is a major contributor to late allograft loss in transplantation (txp). Immunosuppression therapy is highly effective at preventing rejection yet presents…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Intestinal Retransplantation: Survival Outcomes Similar to Primary Transplantation
C. Beyersdorf, L. Vargas, D. Mercer, W. Grant, A. Langnas, S. Merani
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
*Purpose: Isolated and multivisceral intestinal transplantation is indicated for patients with life threatening complications of intestinal failure. Intestinal retransplantation has been performed in select intestinal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Selective Dual Co-Stimulatory Blockade of CD28/CD80-86 and PD1-PL2 with a Novel Recombinant Bi-Specific Fusion Protein (Hybri-2) Promotes Successful Humoral Desensitization in a Stringent Sensitized Rat Model
A. Torija, E. Crespo, M. Jarque, N. Bolaños, M. Meneghini, A. Favà, J. Torras, J. Grinyo, O. Bestard
Kidney Transplantation Unit, Bellvitge University Hospital- IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Humoral Alloimmune memory is a main barrier for successful kidney transplantation and is orchestrated by a compartmentalized cellular immune response driven by bone-marrow LLPCs…