Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 83 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Steatosis by PDFF Affects Percent Remnant Liver Regeneration in Living Donors without Impacting on Clinical Outcomes
A. Duarte-Rojo, Q. Qi, K. Chupetlovska, D. R. Jorgensen, A. A. Borhani, A. Furlan, S. Ganesh, A. Humar
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Mild steatosis (5-33% of fat) is not expected to affect liver regeneration following partial hepatectomy. Novel methods to assess steatosis, such as proton density…
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Pediatric Liver Post-Transplant Length of Stay Index
T. Zhang¹, S. Barrett¹, R. Cotton², T. Galvan², J. Vierling², C. O'Mahony², J. Goss², A. Rana²
¹Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: PELD scores are used to reduce waitlist mortality, but they do not accurately predict likelihood of prolonged length of stay or higher costs associated…
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Absolute Lymphocyte Count: Is There a “Safety Corridor?”
G. Elhelou¹, B. Lahr², R. Razonable³
¹Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ²Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Iatrogenic suppression of T cells is intended to prevent rejection after solid organ transplantation (SOT). This is complicated by opportunistic infections, most notably cytomegalovirus…
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Association between Ezetimibe Usage and Hepatitis C RNA Levels in Uninfected Kidney Transplant Recipients Who Received Hepatitis C Infected Kidneys
A. Azhar, M. Yazawa, M. Talwar, V. Balaraman, A. Bhalla, U. A. Agbim, B. Maliakkal, J. P. Kothadia, S. Nair, J. D. Eason, M. Z. Molnar
James D. Eason Transplant Institute, Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Our previous data showed that transplantation of kidneys from hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected donors to HCV negative recipients achieved excellent short-term graft function,…
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Implicit Bias in Recipient Selection
Y. Sweidan¹, C. Mayuga¹, B. Daly¹, K. Chavin², T. Srinivas¹, A. Padiyar¹
¹Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, ²Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: The decision to place or exclude a candidate from the waitlist is not exclusively based on medical criteria. Scant literature exists regarding the intergroup…
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Outreach as a Way to Improve Access to Kidney Transplants: A Model to Align with Future of Kidney Disease Care
A. Govil¹, P. Gudsoorkar¹, C. Siemer², C. King², T. Diwan¹, E. Woodle¹, S. Shah¹, C. V. Thakar¹
¹Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²UC Health, Cincinnati, OH
*Purpose: In 2018, there were more than 100,000 patients wait-listed for kidney transplant whereas only around 21,000 patients received a kidney transplant. Increasing access to…
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Immune-Mediated Injury and Eplet Mismatches – Profiling Population-Level Interactions
H. Mohammadhassanzadeh¹, W. Zhang², W. Klement³, H. Gebel⁴, P. Keown⁵, K. Oualkacha⁶, R. Sapir-Pichhadze¹
¹Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Organ Donation and Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ⁴Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, ⁵Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁶Université du Québec À Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: HLA genes are in linkage disequilibrium with each other. Sequence defined HLA targets (eplets) are associated with alleles and may be shared within and…
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Taking it to the Max: Extremely Low LDL May Provide Benefit for Prevention of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
R. Lee¹, E. J. Henricksen¹, Y. Moayedi², K. Y. Feng³, J. Han³, W. Yang⁴, R. Imai¹, J. J. Teuteberg⁴, K. K. Khush⁴
¹Pharmacy, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA, ²University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Cardiac Transplant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Routine use of statins is the only Class I ISHLT recommendation in heart transplantation (HT) to reduce cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and improve survival.…
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Criteria for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation: Is it Applicable for Simultaneous Heart -Kidney Transplantation?
J. Yoo, D. Jain, A. Desai, S. Akkina
Department of Medicine, Division of Transplant Nephrology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
*Purpose: Simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation (SHK) proved its survival benefits in dialysis patients. However, criteria to allocate a kidney for SHK is lacking whereas criteria for…
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Increased Post-Operative Ventilation Time in Lung Transplant Recipients with Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction
E. Klipsch¹, R. Rachwan², I. KutKut³, D. Roe², C. Hage², T. Hathaway¹, R. S. Mangus²
¹Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ²IU Health, Indianapolis, IN, ³New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction has been shown to be associated with increased morbidity in bilateral lung transplant recipients with pulmonary artery hypertension. It has…