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

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Natural Sensitization by Pregnancy, Testing Desensitization Strategies in Female NHPs Across Repeat Mismatches
M. Manook, J. Yoon, Z. Fitch, R. Schmitz, A. M. Jackson, J. Kwun, S. Knechtle
Duke Transplant Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Women are disproportionately represented in the highly sensitized patient cohort, and HLA-incompatible transplantation is undertaken predominantly in females. However, nonhuman primate (NHP) models to…
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Association of Donor Hepatitis C Virus Infection Status and Risk of Bk Polyomavirus Viremia After Kidney Transplantation
V. S. Potluri¹, D. E. Schaubel¹, M. E. Sise², B. P. Concepcion³, R. C. Forbes¹, E. A. Blumberg¹, D. Goldberg⁴, P. P. Reese¹, R. Bloom¹, D. Shaffer³, R. Chung², D. Sawinski¹, I. Strohben², N. Elias², A. Azhar⁵, M. Shah¹, J. Eason⁵, L. A. Binari³, M. Talwar⁵, V. Balaraman⁵, A. Bhalla⁵, B. Besharatian¹, M. Z. Molnar⁵
¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ⁴University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, ⁵Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Transplantation of kidneys from deceased donors with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection into HCV-negative recipients has become more common, but some studies have suggested…
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Cleveland Clinic Experience with Cadaveric Uterus Transplant
L. Del Prete¹, C. Quintini¹, K. Hashimoto¹, B. Eghtesad¹, G. D'Amico¹, C. Kwon¹, D. Priebe¹, E. Richards¹, S. Ricci¹, U. Perni¹, C. Ferrando¹, A. Chiesa-Vottero¹, S. Mawhorter¹, N. Yeaney¹, R. Farrell¹, R. Flyckt², C. Miller¹, T. Falcone¹, A. Tzakis¹
¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²University Hospital, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Uterus transplantation (UTx) is the only treatment for women with uterine factor infertility (UFI). The majority of overall experience is from living donation. Little…
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Primary Outcome of OPTIMAL: A Prospective Multicenter Trial of Immunosuppression Withdrawal (ISW) in Stable Adult Liver Transplant (LT) Recipients
S. Chandran¹, K. Mason², L. F. Sun¹, N. Tanimine³, M. DesMarais¹, B. Burrell¹, J. F. Markmann³
¹ITN, San Francisco, CA, ²Rho, Inc., Durham, NC, ³MGH, Boston, MA
*Purpose: To identify clinical & mechanistic correlates of successful ISW and operational tolerance (OT) in a selected cohort of adult LT recipients.*Methods: The Immune Tolerance…
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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)…