Am J Transplant, Volume 21, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 70 of 139 - ATC Abstracts

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Intravenous Immunoglobulin Protects Liver Allograft from Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Human Liver Transplantation
S. Yokota, J. C. Alonso-Escalante, R. P. Tindall, K. R. Tabar, L. Machado, T. Uemura, N. L. Thai
Department of Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury following prolonged cold storage has a significant impact on early and late human liver transplantation (LTx) outcomes. Prevention of I/R injury…
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Dialysis Staff-Reported Impact of the Early Covid-19 Pandemic on Kidney Transplant Referrals and Evaluations
A. Perez¹, S. Retzloff¹, T. Browne², A. Cruz³, S. Wright³, S. Pastan⁴, R. Patzer¹
¹Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ²College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, ³IPRO ESRD Network of the South Atlantic, Morrisville, NC, ⁴Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: COVID-19 has drastically impacted healthcare systems since its declaration as a pandemic in March 2020. Evidence of this impact persists among solid organ transplant…
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The Impact of Thromboelastography on Decreasing Blood Product Usage in Liver Transplantation
A. Mohamed¹, T. Kitajima¹, S. Angappan², K. Delvecchio¹, A. M. Elsabbagh¹, S. Yeddula¹, M. Shamaa¹, K. Collins¹, M. Rizzari¹, A. Yoshida¹, M. Abouljoud¹, J. El-Bashir², S. Nagai¹
¹Department of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²Department of Anesthesiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Liver dysfunction results in derangement of hemostasis and thrombosis. Thromboelastography (TEG) has emerged as a tool to guide resuscitative efforts. However, its utilization and…
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TPIAT Outcomes in Diabetic and Non-diabetic Patients
M. A. Kanak, J. B. Spriggs, P. Coughenour, J. Kalivarathan, P. Saravanan, M. Levy
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Total pancreatectomy with islet auto-transplant (TPIAT) has become a mainstay treatment for patients who suffer from refractory chronic pancreatitis. It has consistently been shown…
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Achilles Heel No Longer: Marked Decline in Early Relaparotomy and Allograft Pancreatectomy Rates Following Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation in the Contemporary Era
B. Sharda¹, K. Gurung², R. Stratta², A. Farney², G. Orlando², C. Jay², A. Reeves-Daniel³, A. Mena-Gutierrez³, N. Sakhovskaya³, W. Doares⁴, S. Kaczmorski⁴, M. Magid⁴, J. Rogers²
¹Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, ²Department of Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ³Internal Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Department of Pharmacy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Technical complications requiring early relaparotomy (relap) and allograft pancreatectomy (AP) have long been the Achilles heel of simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation (SKPT).*Methods: Single center retrospective…
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The Quality Incentive Program (QIP) is Associated with Increased Waitlisting for Transplantation
J. T. Adler¹, L. Xiang¹, J. S. Weissman¹, J. R. Rodrigue², R. E. Patzer³, S. S. Waikar⁴, T. C. Tsai¹
¹Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁴Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Quality Incentive Program (QIP) in 2012, a pay-for-performance program which penalizes dialysis centers payments…
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Has the Proportional Rise in Deceased Organ Donation Rate Over Last 5 Years Been Optimal? Data-based, Forecasting Model Analysis of UNOS/NHSBT UK Donor Data
H. Sharma¹, A. Sharma²
¹Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²Data Analytics, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The increase in deceased donor numbers since last decade has been widely reported. We aim to analyse if the trend in rise of numbers…
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Short Term Outcomes in Previously Covid Positive Living Kidney Donors and Their Recipients
R. Prashar, N. J. Khoury, M. Ramesh, A. K. Patel
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Study short term outcomes of living kidney donors (LKD) who were previously infected with COVID 19, and in their recipients.*Methods: After a brief hiatus…
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Donor Derived Transmissions 2019: Analysis of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
L. Danziger-Isakov¹, M. G. Michaels¹, A. Agarwal¹, S. Aslam¹, K. Dunn¹, J. Goldman¹, D. Levine¹, C. Marboe¹, G. Marklin¹, S. Pouch¹, M. Rana¹, R. Razonable¹, H. L. Stevenson¹, H. S. Te¹, A. Woolley¹, E. Ward², C. Jett², L. Cartwright², R. La Hoz¹
¹OPTN DTAC, Richmond, VA, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The OPTN DTAC, a multidisciplinary group, evaluates potential donor derived transmission events (PDDTE), mostly infections (I) & malignancies (M), to assess the likelihood of…
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The Gut Microbiome in Heart Transplantation: A Prospective Pilot Study
M. Dela Cruz¹, E. Littmann², R. Nayak², C. Lehmann², R. Keskey³, T. Baker³, H. Lin², A. Bennett¹, G. Kim¹, S. Pinney¹, E. Pamer², A. B. Nguyen¹
¹Cardiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The contribution of the intestinal microbiome to alloimmunity in heart transplantation (HT) is unknown. We examined the fecal microbiota of HT recipients at the…