2021 American Transplant Congress
Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Scoping Review
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
*Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are an emerging treatment for numerous advanced diseases, but their safety and efficacy in immunosuppressed transplant patients is not known.…2021 American Transplant Congress
Solid Organ Transplant Telehealth Utilization Significantly Increased During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Experience at a Single, Large Volume Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth utilization has allowed for the delivery of healthcare while protecting patients, caregivers, healthcare workers, and the community from exposure.…2021 American Transplant Congress
Hospitalization in the First Year After Kidney Transplantation: Analyses to Identify Common Predictors of Risk Across Recipient Sensitization Groups
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: We investigated the risk of hospitalization associated with baseline risk factors in adult deceased donor (DD) kidney transplant (KT) recipients (KTRs) stratified into calculated…2021 American Transplant Congress
Machine Learning Approaches for Post-transplant Kidney Outcome Prediction
*Purpose: Determine a robust prediction model for kidney graft survival based on analyzing a combination of decisive factors such as donor and recipient characteristics, biopsy,…2021 American Transplant Congress
Diffuse Calcification Pattern in Chronic Pancreatitis Has Two Aspects in Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation: Bad Sign for Islet Graft Function and Good Sign for Pain Relief
Baylor University Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is characterized by progressive inflammation and fibrosis of the pancreas. The diagnosis of CP is based on pancreatic calcifications, ductal dilatation,…2021 American Transplant Congress
Distal Allograft Pancreatectomy for Graft Salvage After Pancreas Transplantation
Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Early pancreas allograft failure most commonly results from vascular thrombosis. Immediate surgical intervention may permit pancreas allograft salvage, typically requiring thrombectomy. In cases of…2021 American Transplant Congress
Realistic Targets for Transplantation Among Incident Kidney Failure Patients in the United States
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: The Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health aims to treat 80% of all kidney failure patients with transplantation or home dialysis but no…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Calculated Panel of Incompatible Epitopes (cPIE) in the Service of Equitable Access to Transplantation
*Purpose: To inform on feasibility of eplet matching, we developed the calculated Panel of Incompatible Epitopes (cPIE), an algorithm informing on the likelihood of identifying…2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 in Renal Transplant Recipients: Experience of Lithuania
Nephrology, Vilnius University Santaros clinics, Vilnius, Lithuania
*Purpose: Renal transplant recipients are at increased susceptibility to many viral infections, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The purpose of this review is to define…
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