2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Increases in Post-Transplant Pancreatic Enzymes are Not Associated with Inferior Patient or Graft Outcomes Among Pancreas Transplant Recipients
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: An increase in the serum concentration of pancreatic enzymes (amylase and lipase) is commonly related to an acute inflammatory process in the pancreas graft…2021 American Transplant Congress
Controlled Donation After Circulatory Death Pancreas Transplantation in Spain. Initial Experience
*Purpose: To report on the Spanish Pancreas Transplantation experience in controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) by analyzing the normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) and super-rapid…2021 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes Regarding Transplantation During the Pandemic: Give Me My Kidney Now!
1Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 2Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The transplant community faces ongoing challenges regarding the conduct of organ transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and patient treatment preferences during the pandemic require…2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Biopsy Findings After Covid-19
*Purpose: COVID-19 has been reported as a cause of kidney injury and data from published native kidney biopsy results demonstrate a variety of causes. To…2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of a “COVID-free” Pathway on Living Donor Transplantation During a Pandemic
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA
*Purpose: COVID-19 pandemic has significantly decreased rates of organ transplantation, with most programs curtailing living donor transplantations. This has led to an increase in waitlist…2021 American Transplant Congress
Stem Cell and Novel Neurotrophic Factors to Promote Functional Outcomes in Limb Transplantation
*Purpose: Recently, transplantation of hand and face has become a new clinical specialty. The objective of this study was to determine whether adult Mesenchymal Stem…2021 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Antibody Response and Viral Loads in Covid-infected Organ Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: The full spectrum of COVID-19 disease and the impact of disease severity on antibody response and viral shedding dynamics in transplant patients is unclear.…2021 American Transplant Congress
Re-Do Hepatic Artery Reconstruction for Thrombosis Can Save Grafts and Patients without Retransplantation: Lessons Learned from 1,355Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantations
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) after liver transplantation is associated with a marked increase in morbidity, being the main cause of graft loss and bile…2021 American Transplant Congress
Segmental Susceptibility of Intestinal Stem Cells to Cold Storage Preservation Injury in a Porcine Model
1North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Cold storage (CS) is the current gold standard preservation method for small bowel (SB) prior to transplantation. However, CS can cause epithelial detachment, sloughing,…
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