Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 68 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

2020 American Transplant Congress
Results of Pancreas Transplantation in Diabetic Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease Older Than 50 Years
E. Montagud-Marrahi¹, A. Molina², A. Pané³, M. Ramirez-Bajo⁴, A. Amor³, E. Esmatjes³, J. Ferrer⁵, F. Diekmann¹, P. Ventura-Aguiar¹
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Servei de Nefrologia i Trasplantament Renal, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Endocrinology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Laboratori Experimental de Nefrologia I Trasplantament (LENIT), CRB CELLEX, Fundació Clínic, IDIBAP, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Hepatobiliopancreatic and Liver Transplant Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Improvement of care in type 1 diabetes mellitus, with the optimization of patient access to insulins of variable action, has led to macro- and…
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Assessment of the Usefulness of Urine Signature to Differentiate Acute Rejection in a Prospective Kidney Transplantation Cohort
J. Seo¹, S. Jung², J. Moon², K. Jeong³, C. Kim⁴, B. Chung⁵, J. Park⁶, Y. Kim⁷, S. Lee²
¹Department of Core Research Laboratory, Medical Science Institute, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Kyung-pook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Hospital, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Busan Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Despite many biomarker studies in the field of transplantation, development and validation of noninvasive molecular assays to diagnose disease and monitor immune activity is…
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Metabolism Reprogramming During Conventional versus Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation
Z. Guo¹, Z. Zhang¹, N. Gao¹, H. Zhang², X. He¹
¹Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, ²Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: Our group has developed a novel transplant procedure called ischemia-free liver transplantation (IFLT), during which the liver can be procured, preserved and implanted without…
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Lacripep^TM and its Analogs Act as Novel Interventional Agents to Promote Long-Term Islet Transplantation Outcomes
M. Ma¹, K. Teixeira², G. Laurie², K. Brayman¹, P. Chhabra¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: To study the prosecretory, prosurvival, and mitogenic effect of Lacripep™ and its analogs in enhancing islet viability, increasing insulin secretion and promoting long-term islet…
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A Bioinformatics Pipeline for the Identification of Crucial Factors for Transplant Rejection Based on NGS Data
J. Vetter¹, A. Heinzel², C. Aschauer², R. Reindl-Schwaighofer², K. Jelencsics², K. Hu², R. Oberbauer², S. Winkler¹, S. Schaller¹
¹Bioinformatics Research Group, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus, Hagenberg im Muehlkreis, Austria, ²Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*Purpose: T and B cells are crucial parts of the human immune system and play an important role in transplantation. Since the mechanisms leading to…
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Long-Term Kidney Graft Survival is Superior with Simultaneous-Liver Kidney (SLK) Transplants Than Kidney Alone (KA) or Kidney after Liver (KALi) Transplants in the United States
N. Lim¹, S. M. Riad¹, S. Jackson², J. Lake¹
¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²M Health Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: There is a concern that SLK transplant recipients have worse outcomes resulting in poor utilization of the kidney donor pool. We utilized the Scientific…
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5-Year Simulated Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys in 3 Contiguous States within Region 3 Under the Latest 250 nm Circle Distribution Proposal
C. Warren¹, N. Battula¹, A. Zarrinpar¹, T. Kozlowski¹, M. Johnson¹, K. Andreoni²
¹University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Abdominal Transplant, Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: The proposed kidney allocation replaces current local and regional by a 250 nautical mile (nm) radius circle from the actual donor hospital (DH) to…
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Successful Transplantation Outcomes Utilizing Deceased Donorswith Acute Kidney Injury
A. Harshman, L. Preczewski, M. Muldoon, G. Guerra
Kidney and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant, Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury (AKI) are discarded at a higher rate than those without AKI, exacerbating the organ shortage crisis.…
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Risk Factors for Losing Varicella Immunity after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
H. Pizzo¹, J. Mirocha², J. Garrison¹, P. R. Soni³, S. Nadipuram³, D. Puliyanda¹
¹Pediatric Nephrology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Biostatistics Core, Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³Pediatric Infectious Disease, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Vaccination against varicella zoster (VZV) pre-kidney transplant (kid tx) can help prevent severe disseminated VZV disease in immunosuppressed patients (pts) post-tx. Despite confirmation of…
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Non- Superior Patient and Death-Censored Graft Survival with Controlled after Cardiac Death Donors Than Expanded Criteria Brain Death Donors in Older Recipients Over 60 Years, with Better Outcomes with Living Kidney Donors
I. Revuelta¹, D. Cucchiari¹, A. Ruiz², E. De Sousa-Amorim¹, D. Paredes², L. Peri³, P. Ventura-Aguiar¹, M. Musquera³, N. Esforzado¹, F. Cofan¹, J. V. Torregrosa¹, G. J. Piñeiro¹, J. Ugalde-Altamirano¹, J. M. Campistol¹, F. Oppenheimer¹, F. Diekmann¹
¹Renal Transplant Unit, Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ²Donation and Transplant Coordination Section, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, ³Department of Urology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Each time transplant candidates are older, and the allocation of suitable donors is a real challenge. Controlled Donors after Cardiac Death (cDCD) are using…