Am J Transplant, Volume 21, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 103 of 139 - ATC Abstracts

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Food Insecurity and Impact on Transplant Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Moin, P. Verghese, R. Engen, D. Matossian
Pediatric Nephrology, Lurie Children's Hospital, chicago, IL
*Purpose: Food insecurity (FI), defined as inconsistent access to food or worry over shortage of food that prevents an active and healthy life, has not…
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Treatment and Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients with C4d Negative Antibody Mediated Rejection
M. Walsh, L. Lineberger, M. Brokhof, N. Kenyon, N. Alvey
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe and evaluate treatment practices and patient outcomes for kidney transplant recipients with presence of C4d negative…
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Transplant Center Volume in High-risk Recipient Association with Graft and Patient Survival
M. A. Merzkani, H. Murad, M. Mattu, S. Husami, M. Wang, V. Hu, S. Chang, T. Alhamad
Transplant, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
*Purpose: Evaluation of high-risk recipients in transplant centers involves an intensive multidisciplinary medical evaluation and requires extensive coordination amongst various teams to follow-up on these…
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Impact of Pre-Screening on OPTN Kidney Paired Donation Pilot Program Transplant and Refusal Rates
S. E. Booker¹, R. Leishman¹, J. Musick¹, M. Oley¹, T. Sandholm², J. Dickerson³, M. Pavlakis⁴, V. Casingal⁵
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, ³University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁴Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ⁵Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
*Purpose: The OPTN Kidney Paired Donation Pilot Program (KPDPP) donor pre-screen tool allows centers to review and pre-accept or pre-refuse potential donors for individual candidates…
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Comparison of Allograft Outcomes in SLK Transplant Patients with and without ESLD: A UNOS Database Analysis
P. Kyriazis, H. Patel, P. Nissaisorakarn, F. Cardarelli, N. Agrawal
Transplant Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Simultaneous liver and kidney transplants (SLKT) have started to gain ground in the treatment of liver disease with associated acute or chronic kidney disease.…
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Highly Sensitized Simultaneous Liver-kidney Transplant Recipients Show a Reduction in Panel Reactive Antibodies and No Kidney Rejection 1-year Post-transplant
M. Moaddab, J. V. Nolte Fong, C. M. Mobley, A. Saharia, M. J. Hobeika, R. McMillan, S. G. Yi, R. J. Knight, A. Gaber, R. Ghobrial
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The liver is unique in that it is considered an immunologically tolerant organ against graft destruction by antibodies. Simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation (SLKT) are often…
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Immunotherapy of Dc-cik Cells in Patient with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence Following Liver Transplantation
S. Hsu, L. Jeng, H. Yang, A. Thorat
China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
*Purpose: Dendritic cells (DCs) and cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells, components of anti-cancer therapy, have shown clinical benefits and potential to overcome chemotherapeutic resistance in some…
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Outcomes of Robotic Living Donor Right Hepatectomy in Liver Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
E. Lincango-Naranjo¹, E. Garces-Delgado², P. Solis-Pazmino³, H. Alexander-Leon⁴, G. Restrepo-Rodas², R. Mancero-Montalvo², C. J. Ponce², R. Cadena-Semanate², R. Vargas-Cordova⁵, G. Herrera-Cevallos⁶, A. Villarreal-Juris⁷, S. Vallejo¹, C. Liu-Sanchez⁸, L. P. Prokop⁹, A. D. Guerron¹⁰, O. J. Ponce¹, D. Moris¹¹
¹Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, ³Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Universidad de las Americas, Quito, Ecuador, ⁵Hospital General San Francisco IESS, Quito, Ecuador, ⁶Hospital Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador, ⁷Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, ⁸Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, ⁹Mayo Clinic Libraries, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, ¹¹Department of surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Living donor adult-to-adult liver transplantation (LT) has emerged as a feasible alternative to deceased donors. Advances in hepatobiliary surgery have allowed the introduction of…
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Outcomes of DCD Allografts in Liver Transplant Recipients with HCC
N. Gupta¹, J. Daum¹, B. Aqel², L. Mi³, J. Harbell⁴
¹School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ²Hepatology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ³Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Early studies demonstrated inferior survival for liver transplant (LT) recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who received allografts from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors…
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Liver Transplantation with Super Obese Donors (BMI≥50) Grafts: An Acceptable Pathway to Expand the Donor Pool. Analysis of the OPTN/UNOS Liver Transplant Registry
P. Vargas¹, C. Argo², H. Zachary², M. Stotts², N. Intagliata², P. Northup², J. Oberholzer¹, S. Pelletier¹, N. Goldaracena¹
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: We aimed to analyze the impact of donor body mass index (BMI) on recipient morbidity and survival following liver transplantation (LT).*Methods: The UNOS-STAR database…