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

2020 American Transplant Congress
Improved Outcomes Over the Past 13 Years in HIV Positive Kidney Transplant Recipients-A Single Center Experience
A. Mattiazzi¹, J. F. Camargo², S. Anjan², M. I. Morris², L. Abbo², J. Simkins², Y. Natori², K. Aoke³, A. Zilli³, R. Thurston³, M. Muldoon³, L. Preczewski³, L. J. Chen⁴, G. W. Burke⁴, G. Ciancio⁴, G. Guerra¹
¹Medicine. Division of Nephrology, University of Miami/Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL, ²Medine. Division of Infectious Disease, University of Miami/Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL, ³Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL, ⁴Surgery, University of Miami/Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation in HIV positive recipients (HIV+) is the treatment of choice for renal failure in patients (P) who maintain CD4+ counts ≥ 200/mm3and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of the New Heart Allocation Policy on the Treatment of United States Adult Heart Transplant Candidates
K. Chung¹, A. S. Anderson², M. Siegler¹, M. M. Churpek³, W. Parker¹
¹University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
*Purpose: In October 2018, the US heart allocation system expanded the number of priority “Status” tiers from 3 to 6 and added cardiogenic shock requirements.…
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Automated Monitoring of Four Urinary Biomarkers in Routine Surveillance Identifies Patients at Low and High Risk of Renal Allograft Injury
L. Sheward¹, J. Wedel¹, N. Rodig¹, R. Mannon², O. Bestard³, V. Dharnidharka⁴, D. Zurakowski¹, A. Kho¹, T. Blydt-Hansen⁵, M. Seifert², D. M. Briscoe¹
¹Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, MO, ⁵BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: Surveillance renal biopsy data indicate that up to 36% of clinically stable kidney allograft recipients have subclinical rejection, emphasizing the need to implement automated…
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PD-L1 Signals Lymphatic Endothelium for Treg Migration
W. Piao¹, L. Li¹, K. Hippen², Y. Zhang², V. Saxena³, Y. Xiong¹, C. Paluskievicz¹, M. WillsonShirkey¹, B. Blazar², L. Riella⁴, J. Bromberg⁵
¹Surgery, U of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ²Pediatrics, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³U of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Transplantation Research Center, Harvard U, Boston, MA, ⁵Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology, U of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Regulatory T cell (Treg) migration is important for tolerance, although the molecules that regulate Treg entry to lymphatics are poorly understood. Lymphatic endothelial cells…
2020 American Transplant Congress
ATHENA – Patient and Allograft Outcome Differences after Kidney Transplantation – Germany vs. France
F. Thaiss¹, C. Sommerer¹, B. Suwelack¹, D. Dragun¹, I. A. Hauser¹, O. Witzke¹, C. Hugo¹, P. Schenker¹, N. Kamar², P. Merville², I. Kroeger³, M. Junge³, B. Nashan¹
¹Athena, Study Group, Germany, ²Athena, Study Group, France, ³Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany
*Purpose: In the ATHENA trial [NCT01843348], efficacy and safety of everolimus in combination with tacrolimus [EVR+TAC] or cyclosporine A [EVR+CyA] vs. TAC and mycophenolic acid…
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The Influence of the Donor Kidney Weight to Recipient Body Weight Ratio on Long-Term Renal Graft Outcomes
S. Yang¹, J. Lee¹, Y. Jung², B. Kim³, M. Kim¹, S. Kim¹, Y. Kim¹, K. Huh¹
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Nephrology, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: To study the impact of the relative donor kidney size on long-term graft function and survival, we investigated the living donor renal transplants outcomes.*Methods:…
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Health-Related Quality of Life after Anonymous Nondirected Living Liver Donation: A Multi-Center, North American Collaboration
M. H. Raza¹, W. E. Jackson², A. Dell³, L. Ding⁴, J. Shapiro³, E. A. Pomfret⁵, Y. Genyk⁶, L. Sher⁶, J. Emamaullee⁶
¹Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Gastroenterology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ³Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁴Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ⁶Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Literature on anonymous or ‘altruistic’ nondirected living liver donors (ND-LLDs) remains sparse as living donor liver transplant (LDLT) programs continue to explore the utilization…
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Use of Letermovir for Cytomegalovirus Management in Thoracic Organ Transplantation
J. L. Saullo, A. Ferrari, E. M. Eichenberger, J. M. Steinbrink, A. W. Baker, M. Bacchus, E. K. Maziarz, S. Kakoullis, L. Zaffiri, H. Berry, J. M. Reynolds, C. R. Wolfe
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) commonly affects thoracic solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, and standard antiviral therapies are limited by myelosuppression, renal dysfunction, and emergence of resistance.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Proposed New Pancreas Allocation Policy: Moving to Concentric Circles as First Unit of Allocation
A. Israni¹, S. Gustafson¹, B. Thompson¹, A. Wey¹, S. Niederhaus², R. Forbes³, A. Fox⁴, B. Kasiske¹, J. Snyder¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ³Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN, ⁴UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) proposed a new national deceased donor pancreas allocation policy that removes donor service area and OPTN region…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Hepatic CHOP Expression Dictates Clinical Outcomes in Liver Transplantation
H. Hirao¹, T. Ito¹, K. Nakamura², S. Kageyama¹, K. Kadono¹, H. Kojima¹, K. J. Dery¹, S. Younan¹, R. W. Busuttil¹, F. M. Kaldas¹, J. W. Kupiec‐Weglinski¹
¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
*Purpose: Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress plays a pivotal role in the mechanism of liver ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI). Although we and others have demonstrated the…