2021 American Transplant Congress
Providing Equitable Access: Language and Literacy Levels of Kidney Transplant Center Websites
*Purpose: Health disparities exist for access to kidney transplantation. Accessibility of patient-facing transplant center resources can contribute to these disparities. Patients interact with transplant centers…2021 American Transplant Congress
Improving Well-being for Heart Transplant Recipients: Implementation of a Patient Navigator Program
Health Navigator Foundation, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: When surveyed, heart transplant recipients cited managing all their healthcare needs as a primary concern 83% of the time (n=23). To respond to this…2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Covid 19 in Candidates Waitlisted for Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
*Purpose: The COVID 19 pandemic has posed new challenges to transplant centers. The impact has been detrimental on wait-listed ESKD patients, reducing their access to…2021 American Transplant Congress
Induction Immunosuppression Efficacy in Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation in the SARS-CoV-2 Era
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Lymphocyte depleting induction is associated with increased risk of infection. Our institution adopted a stratified induction protocol with the intent to decrease risk for…2021 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of PCSK9 Inhibitors in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Experience at a Large Multi-organ Transplant Center
*Purpose: The aim of the study was to characterize the efficacy and safety of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors in solid organ transplant…2021 American Transplant Congress
Trends of Kidney Transplant Volume During Covid-19 Era
*Purpose: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the clinical syndrome of COVID-19 have significantly disrupted routine healthcare and life-saving procedures, including solid organ transplantation. This resulted…2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 Severity within One Year of Liver, Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation
Solid Organ Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The current pandemic has created uncertainty in the severity of COVID-19 in transplant recipients, especially those given lymphocyte depleting therapy within a year prior…2021 American Transplant Congress
White, Older Men Are Less Affected by the Changes of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Surgery, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: This study explores quality of life and lifestyle changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic among pre- and post- liver (LT) and kidney (KT) transplant…2021 American Transplant Congress
Precision Medicine Tools in Kidney Transplant (KTx): Implications for Individualized Immunosupression Therapy and Downstream Cost-savings
Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT
*Purpose: Kidney Tissue Transcriptomics (Tr) is an emerging adjunct to traditional histology for diagnosis of kidney rejection in KTx. The objective assessment and reliance on…2021 American Transplant Congress
Status of Kidney Allocation in Liver-kidney Transplants Before and After the UNOS/OPTN Policy
Department of Internal Medicine: Division of Transplant Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: On August 10, 2017 the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) enacted policies 9.7 and 8.5G to establish medical criteria for simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK)…
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