Am J Transplant, Volume 21, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 18 of 139 - ATC Abstracts

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Nutritional Inadequacy is an Independent Predictor of Sepsis Post-liver Transplantation
J. V. Nolte Fong, M. Elshawwaf, L. W. Moore, E. A. Graviss, D. T. Nguyen, R. Angell, A. Uosef, T. Hirase, C. M. Mobley, R. Ghobrial
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Malnutrition is universally prevalent in liver transplant (LT) recipients in the perioperative setting. Malnutrition contributes to post-LT complications, such as sepsis. We aimed to…
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Cross-Circulation for Extracorporeal Liver Support in a Swine Model
W. K. Wu¹, A. Tumen¹, J. W. Stokes², R. Ukita², A. E. Hozain³, C. R. Flynn², M. J. Lee³, J. R. Talackine², N. L. Cardwell², J. A. Reimer³, M. Pinezich³, C. Benson², G. Vunjak-Novakovic³, S. P. Alexopoulos², M. Bacchetta²
¹co-first authors, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ³Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Although machine perfusion has gained momentum as an organ preservation strategy in liver transplantation, significant organ shortages and waitlist mortality persist, highlighting unmet needs…
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CT-measured Cortical Volume Ratio is an Alternative to Nuclear Medicine Split Scan Ratio Among Living Kidney Donors
J. Montgomery, C. Brown, A. Zondlak, K. Walsh, J. Kozlowski, A. Pinsky, E. Herriman, J. Sussman, Y. Lu, E. Stein, P. Shankar, R. Sung, K. Woodside
Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: The 125I-iothalamate clearance and 99mTc-DTPA split scan nuclear medicine studies are used among living kidney donor candidates to determine mGFR and split-scan ratio (SSR).…
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Noninferiority Outcomes Among Undocumented Immigrant Kidney Transplant Recipients in California
H. Ichii¹, N. Eguchi¹, E. Tantisattamo², U. Reddy², A. Ferrey², D. Dafoe¹
¹Surgery, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, ²Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA
*Purpose: There are over 2 million undocumented immigrants (UI) in California, where currently, all individuals regardless of immigration status have equal access to kidney transplant(KT).…
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Compatible Paired Donation in Paired Kidney Exchange: A Look at the Road Not Taken
G. Vranic, A. Gilbert, B. Thomas, S. Ghasemian, M. Cooper, J. Verbesey
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Paired kidney exchange (PKE) offers incompatible donor-recipient pairs increased access to transplant. Compatible pairs are increasingly joining the PKE in an effort to find…
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Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Transplant Pharmacist Workforce
J. Lyons¹, K. Khalil², J. J. Teuteberg³, E. J. Henricksen⁴
¹Department of Pharmacy, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, ²Department of Pharmacy, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ³Medicine and Section of Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplant, and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Department of Transplant, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transplant pharmacist workforce.*Methods: A voluntary survey open from August 18, 2020 to September 15, 2020…
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Peri-operative Liver Transplant Anesthesia Practice Patterns in the United States
C. Crouch¹, A. Hendrickse¹, W. Stoll², C. Sullivan³, M. Kaufman⁴, E. Pivalizza⁵, D. Damian⁶, D. Sellers⁷, M. Little⁸, S. McCluskey⁷, S. Kumar⁹, L. De Marchi¹⁰, S. Sridhar⁵, T. Sakai⁶
¹Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Lahey Health, Burlington, MA, ⁵University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁶University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁷University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ⁹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ¹⁰Georgetown University, Washington DC, DC
*Purpose: Transplant anesthesiology is an evolving subspecialty and has not been the subject of an overall review of practice patterns in the United States since…
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Lung Transplant Recipients Developing Early DSAs are Characterized by a Shift Towards Memory B Cells Directly After Transplantation
S. Christoph¹, A. Hitz¹, R. Bellmàs Sanz¹, J. Kühne¹, B. Wiegmann², F. Ius², J. Salman², E. Chichelnitskiy¹, T. Siemeni², W. Sommer³, A. Haverich², G. Warnecke³, C. Falk¹
¹Institute of Transplant Immunology, MHH, Hannover, Germany, ²Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, MHH, Hannover, Germany, ³Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
*Purpose: After lung transplantation (LTx), the development of early donor HLA-specific antibodies (eDSA) is associated with antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) and poor graft survival. Since 2013,…
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Patterns and Inhibition of Cell Death During Static Cold Storage of Human Kidneys
J. R. DiRito¹, G. Chickering², J. T. Langford¹, D. Stern¹, S. Hosgood³, M. L. Nicholson³, E. Gavathiotis⁴, R. N. Kitsis⁵, M. Saltzman², J. S. Pober⁶, G. T. Tietjen⁷
¹Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, ³Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁴Biochemistry and Medicine, Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁵Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁶Immunobiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, ⁷Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: As the donor population continues to age and accumulate co-morbidities, more marginal kidneys are being retrieved for transplantation. However, estimates suggest that more than…
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Microbial Signatures Promote Antibiotic-Mediated Alleviation of Peritransplant Liver Damage in Mouse Recipients
K. J. Dery¹, S. Kageyama¹, H. Hirao¹, H. Kojima¹, K. Kadono¹, T. Dong², J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski¹
¹The Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Department of Medicine, Vatche & Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Although recent evidence shows that modifications of gut microbiota by antibiotics (Abx) influences liver allograft function, its compositional role in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT)…