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  • 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

    D. A. Walczak1, E. Collins2, E. Benedetti1

    1Organ Transplant, University of Il Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, 2College of Nursing, Dept of Bio-behavioral Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *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

    C. A. Beamish1, O. Gaber2, O. M. Sabek2

    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

    S. Riad1, H. Sarumi2, R. Kandaswamy3

    1Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Surgery, University of Minnesota Physicians, Minneapolis, MN, 3Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

    *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

    O. Roe1, S. Gattis1, R. Parsons2, D. Lo2, S. Todd1

    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

    Y. A. Qazi, E. Villalon, D. Samson, W. Mon, M. Smogorzewski

    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

    S. Dionne, B. O'Neale

    VRL-Eurofins, Centennial, CO

    *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

    M. E. de Vera1, J. Woloszyn2, S. Regmi2, R. Rattanavich2, M. Rakoski2, M. Lin2, P. Mehta2, A. Kore2, J. Weissman2, C. Martens2, T. Phan2, B. Jerez-Aguilar2, M. Robinson2, E. Wells2, R. Villicana2, M. Nguyen2

    1Loma Linda University Health, San Bernardino, CA, 2Transplant Institute, Loma Linda University Health, San Bernardino, CA

    *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…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    T-cell-Mediated Immunity to Sars-cov-2 Defines Covid-19 Risk and Severity in Transplanted and Non-Transplanted Individuals and Associates with Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells

    C. Ashokkumar1, V. Rohan2, A. H. Kroemer3, S. Rao4, G. Mazariegos5, B. W. Higgs5, S. Nadig2, M. Ningappa5, T. Fishbein3, S. Subramaniam6, R. Sindhi7

    1Plexision, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 3MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown, DC, 4DHR Health Institute for Research and Development, Texas, TX, 5University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 6University of California, San Diego, CA, 7University of Pittsburgh, pittsburgh, PA

    *Purpose: We assessed whether COVID-19-risk is enhanced by chronic immunosuppression, and is associated with suppressor cells.*Methods: We tested 66 COVID-19 patients, including 26 with solid…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Allocating Kidneys in Optimized Circles: Logistics are More Important Than Distance

    R. Saidi, R. Shahbazov, M. Hanlon, M. laftavi

    SUNY Upstate, Syracuse, NY

    *Purpose: The OPTN recently proposed removing Donation Service Area (DSA) and regional boundaries used in the current kidney allocation system (KAS) and allocate organs within…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Adult Combined Liver-Heart Transplantation: The United States Experience

    I. A. Ziogas1, S. P. Alexopoulos1, W. K. Wu1, L. K. Matsuoka1, M. A. Rauf1, M. Izzy2, R. Perri2, K. H. Schlendorf3, J. N. Menachem3, A. S. Shah4

    1Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 3Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 4Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

    *Purpose: Combined heart-liver transplantation (CHLT) is now being practiced with increasing regularity and improved outcomes in the United States. We performed the most comprehensive review…
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