2021 American Transplant Congress
Intensivist-Performed Transesophageal Echocardiography as a Screen for Organ Donation: A Four-Year, Single-Center Experience
*Purpose: Echocardiography is required for deceased heart donation, and transthoracic echocardiography is the traditional practice. At our institution, intensivists perform transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and since…2021 American Transplant Congress
Creating a Culturally Sensitive Report Card for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates: Preliminary Results from Pilot Interviews and Focus Groups
*Purpose: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation continue to negatively impact African American (AA) patients despite changes to deceased donor allocation practices. AA patients are overrepresented…2021 American Transplant Congress
Body Mass Index >35 Does Not Impact Kidney Transplant Outcomes or Health Related Quality of Life Despite BMI Class or Recipient Race
*Purpose: Kidney transplant [KTx] in recipients with BMI > 35 remains controversial and has not often been studied in recipients with BMI >40. There is…2021 American Transplant Congress
Endocrine Cell Identity and HOMA-B In Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis Undergoing Islet Auto-transplantation
1Surgery, Houston Mehodist Hospital, Houston, TX, 2Surgery, Houston Mehodist, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Islet identity loss is an emergent factor in dysglycemia in diabetes, islet transplantation, and chronic pancreatitis (CP). Pancreatectomy and islet auto-transplantation (PIAT) for CP…2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Cell-Free DNA (dd-cfDNA) in Pancreas Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Data on the role of DD-cfDNA after pancreas transplantation is lacking. Herein we report on our center experience with DD-cfDNA in 10 unique SPK…2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Transplant Clinical Pharmacist in an Outpatient Transplant Clinic
1Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, 2Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Pharmacist involvement in the outpatient transplant clinic setting has been correlated with improved patient outcomes in single organ cohort studies. Direct clinical pharmacist involvement…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Lack of Access to Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Due to Insurance Ineligibility – A Single Center Analysis
Keck Medical Center at USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation(SPK) provides a survival and quality of life advantage in young, low BMI insulin dependent diabetics with End Stage Renal…2021 American Transplant Congress
Sars-cov-2 Stat Testing for Organ Donation; One Laboratory’s Experience
*Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic took the U.S. by storm. The Transplant Community had to navigate through unprecedented scenarios in order to continue the life-saving mission…2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 Infections Post-liver and Kidney Transplantation in a Southern Ca Program
*Purpose: Southern CA is at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. We reviewed outcomes of our center's liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant patients stricken with…
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