2021 American Transplant Congress
Criteria and Practice Patterns for Accepting Living Donors with Prior Covid-19: A National Survey
*Purpose: A critical question facing transplant programs is if, when and how to safely accept living kidney donors (LKD) who have a history and recovered…2021 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Prolonged Length of Stay in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: Changes Over the Last Three Decades
Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Hospital length of stay (LOS) following kidney transplantation, particularly prolonged LOS, has not shown much improvement since the early 2000s. This study explores changes…2021 American Transplant Congress
Plasma Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Levels Risk-Stratify Kidney Allograft Injury with Isolated Transplant Glomerulitis
*Purpose: The Banff lesion Glomerulitis (g) characterizes the degree of microvascular glomerular inflammation. Some studies have demonstrated glomerulitis in the absence of C4d in association…2021 American Transplant Congress
Higher Calcineurin Inhibitor Levels Associate with Graft Outcomes in Kidney Recipients with De Novo Donor-specific Antibodies of Either Hla Class I or II
Nephrology, CHU de Québec- Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
*Purpose: The development of de novo anti-HLA donor specific antibodies (dnDSA) is associated with poorer outcomes in kidney transplant recipients. We and other previously reported…2021 American Transplant Congress
Cancer Among Kidney Transplant Recipients More Than 20 Years After Transplantation: PTLD Remains the Most Common Cancer Type Even in the Very Long-Term
Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
*Purpose: Due to an improved patient and kidney allograft survival, cancer is increasingly recognized as the major cause of death after kidney transplantation. Cancer risk…2021 American Transplant Congress
Who Can be Matched via Kidney Exchange?
*Purpose: Valuable time and resources are spent screening medically-compatible patients and donors for kidney exchange. Exchanges with tens or hundreds of patients can have thousands…2021 American Transplant Congress
Chances of Renal Recovery in Liver Only Transplant Recipients Who Were Eligible for Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: Progressive decline in renal function is common among patients with end-stage liver disease. Liver transplant (LT) candidates can often develop severely impaired renal function…2021 American Transplant Congress
Implementation of a High-risk Medication Report for Waitlisted Liver Transplant Candidates
1Pharmacy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Use of high-risk medications (HRMs) at the time of liver transplant may lead to delays in surgery or peri-operative complications (bleeding, drug-drug interactions (DDI),…2021 American Transplant Congress
Improving Liver Transplantation Outcomes for Hepatitis C Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy Era
Surgery, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
*Purpose: Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy has transformed the outcomes of liver transplantation(LT) in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV). The aim of this study was…
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