2020 American Transplant Congress
Correlation of Intraoperative Donor Duodenal Segment Swab Cultures with the Subsequent Occurrence of Surgical Site Infections in Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients
1University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Division of ID, University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Pancreas transplantation (PT) is commonly employed for the treatment of type I diabetes mellitus. It has been postulated that surgical site infections (SSIs), particularly…2020 American Transplant Congress
Infectious Complications in Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients Undergoing Desensitization
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA
*Purpose: Data is limited on the impact of desensitization on infectious complications in elderly kidney transplant (KT) recipients. We examined infectious complications in elderly KT…2020 American Transplant Congress
Osmotic Nephropathy from a Non-Sucrose Based IVIG
Nephrology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: We present a case of acute renal failure and hyperkalemia due to osmotic nephropathy from a non-sucrose based IVIG infusion therapy.*Methods: A 67-year-old man…2020 American Transplant Congress
Patient-Informed Design of an Educational Website on Living Kidney Donation
1Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY, 2University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Web-based education may be a powerful tool to support kidney patients’ learning about living kidney donation (LKD); however, websites that are not user-friendly can…2020 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Split Liver Machine Perfusion Protocol to Provide Comparative Controls in Assessing Therapeutic Interventions
*Purpose: Ex situ donor liver machine perfusion is developing into a promising tool to test organ viability prior to transplantation and vehicle to assess novel…2020 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Photobiomodulation Therapy Combined with Short-Term Immunosuppressants Prolonged Allotransplant Survival in a Rodent Hind-Limb Model
*Purpose: Photobiomodulation has been applied for accelerating the skeletal muscle repair process. Our formal study demonstrated vitamin D could be involved in allograft survival and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Arterial Flow, Lactate and NGAL as a Decision Making Trinity in Normothermic Kidney Preservation
*Purpose: The aim of our study was to investigate biomarkers in a blood-based perfusate of normothermically perfused discarded human kidneys using urine recirculation as a…2020 American Transplant Congress
Immunohistochemical and Molecular Detection of NK Cells in Kidney Allografts with Antibody Mediated Rejection
Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Molecular signatures specific to Natural Killer (NK) cells are closely associated with antibody mediated rejection (AMR) in transplant biopsies. We have developed an immunohistochemical…2020 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Rat Liver: Comparing Two Perfusion Methods
Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Isolated perfused rodent liver (IPRL) model has gained popularity in ex-vivo rat liver preservation and pharmacological intervention studies. Experimental conditions and system layouts vary…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Extracorporeal Photopheresis in a Full-Mismatch Kidney Transplant Rat Model
*Purpose: Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is an immunomodulatory cell therapy based on the infusion of autologous cellular products exposed to ultraviolet light (UV), in the presence…
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