Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 99 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

2020 American Transplant Congress
HIV+ Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cases and a Clinical Paradigm
D. Segev¹, C. Wolfe², D. Brown³, D. Fine³, K. Neumann⁴, N. Martinez⁵, D. Ostrander³, F. Al Ammary³, A. Tobian³, A. W. Baker⁶, C. Durand³
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Unaffiliated, N/A, VA, ⁵Unaffiliated, N/A, GA, ⁶Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To report clinical characteristics and outcomes of two people living with HIV who underwent laparoscopic donor nephrectomy*Methods: To facilitate donor selection, we first conducted…
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Younger Age is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation Alone for Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
R. Gedaly, D. Valvi, X. Mei, M. Gupta, M. Shah, A. Ancheta, F. Marti
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
*Purpose: Neuroendocrine tumor (NET) metastases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The role of liver transplantation to treat unresectable metastases from NET is…
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Donor-Derived Gram-Negative Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: OPTN DTAC Experience, 2012-2018
S. Pouch¹, B. Plucinski², R. La Hoz¹, A. Agarwal¹, S. Aslam¹, L. Danziger-Isakov¹, S. Ho¹, D. Levine¹, M. Malinis¹, M. Rana¹, R. Razonable¹, L. Strasfeld¹, M. Michaels¹
¹OPTN DTAC, Richmond, VA, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Rates of Gram-negative (GN) organ donor disease transmission are unknown. Potential donor-derived transmission events (PDDTE) reported to the OPTN Ad hoc Disease Transmission Advisory…
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Impact of Pretransplant Malignancy on Heart and Lung Transplant Recipients
W. Kang¹, C. T. Sparrow², M. Kim¹, M. Rachid³, S. M. Soriano³
¹Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, ²Department of Cardiology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, ³Department of Pulmonology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate pre-transplant malignancy (PTM) as a risk factor for worsened post-transplant prognosis in heart or lung transplant…
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Factors Associated with Renal Graft Loss in Simultaneous Kidney-Heart Transplant Recipients in the UNOS Cohort
K. A. Agarwal¹, H. Patel¹, K. Almonte², F. Cardarelli¹, N. Agrawal¹
¹Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
*Purpose: Simultaneous kidney and heart transplants (SKHT) are employed for patients with both end-stage heart failure and severely impaired kidney function. Renal outcomes in such…
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High Frequencies of Donor-Derived Memory T and NK Cells in the Blood of Lung Transplant Recipients May Contribute to Protection from Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
R. Bellmàs Sanz¹, A. Hitz¹, B. Wiegmann², K. Bläsing¹, F. Ius², W. Sommer², J. Kühne¹, L. Horn¹, A. Knöfel², I. Tudorache², A. Haverich², D. Jonigk³, G. Warnecke², C. Falk¹
¹Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School MHH, Hannover, Germany, ²Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School MHH, Hannover, Germany, ³Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School MHH, Hannover, Germany
*Purpose: After lung transplantation (LuTx), a transient chimerism of donor cells exists in the blood of recipients due to the migration of lymphocytes from the…
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Increasing Utilization via Accelerating the Placement of Hard-to-Place Kidneys
S. Noreen¹, R. Brown¹, Y. Becker², M. Cooper³, K. O'Connor⁴, J. Prinz⁵, D. Klassen¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ⁴LifeCenter Northwest, Bellevue, WA, ⁵Donor Alliance, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Increasing the number of transplants by increasing utilization is a key goal of the OPTN, with a particular focus on the use of marginal…
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Graft Survival after Liver Transplantation for Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma
I. A. Ziogas, L. A. Hickman, L. K. Matsuoka, M. I. Montenovo, M. Izzy, S. A. Rega, I. D. Feurer, S. P. Alexopoulos
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LT) with neoadjuvant chemoradiation is increasingly utilized for the treatment for unresectable cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), however, post-LT graft survival is not well described.…
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Modelling Patient Outcomes after Listing for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in the UK: A Novel Technique
M. Ibrahim¹, L. Mumford¹, R. Hogg¹, R. Johnson¹, M. Pearson², J. Forsythe³, C. Callaghan⁴
¹Statistics and Clinical Studies, NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom, ²Winton Centre for Risk Evidence and Communication, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ³NHS Blood and Transplant, Bristol, United Kingdom, ⁴Renal, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Novel methods of data analysis and communication are needed to aid clinician and patient understanding of clinical outcomes. We aimed to demonstrate patient outcomes…
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Longer-Term Outcomes from the THINKER and EXPANDER Trials of Transplantation Using HCV-Viremic Kidneys
V. S. Potluri¹, F. Naqvi², P. Reese¹, M. Shah¹, D. Brown², S. Prenner¹, A. Loupy³, A. Woodards¹, P. Abt¹, E. Blumberg¹, J. Trofe-Clark¹, D. Segev², R. Bloom¹, D. Sawinski¹, C. Durand², P. Porrett¹, M. Levine¹, D. Goldberg⁴, N. Desai²
¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ³Paris Transplant Group, Paris, France, ⁴University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: The practice of transplanting HCV-viremic kidneys into HCV-negative recipients has become more common, but longer-term outcomes have not been reported. We present data on…