Am J Transplant, Volume 22, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 110 of 190 - ATC Abstracts

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Early versus Late Ureteral Stent Removal in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. McGrath¹, L. Maestretti¹, S. Samreth¹, K. Sheth², P. Grimm², A. Chaudhuri², A. Gallo²
¹Stanford Children's, Palo Alto, CA, ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
*Purpose: Routine placement of ureteral stent in pediatric kidney transplantation prevents complications by reducing vesicoureteral junction kinking, and promoting drainage from the transplant kidney to…
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Case Times For Brain Dead Donors: Longer Is Not Better, No Impact Of Longer Case Time On Organ Yield Or OPO Performance Tier
M. J. Moritz¹, R. Hasz¹, H. Nathan¹, E. Hunt², S. Noreen³, A. Toll⁴
¹Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA, ²Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA, ³United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ⁴Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Silverdale, WA
*Purpose: Having observed the steady increase in case times, we wished to examine if this has impacted organ yield*Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study…
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Patient Preferences for Waiting Time and Kidney Quality: A Discrete Choice Experiment
S. Mehrotra
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to elicit patient preferences involving tradeoffs between a lower quality kidney offered today and a higher quality, future…
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Less is More. Extensive Cardiac Investigations Add Little Value in Waitlisting Patients for Kidney Transplantation
B. Chow¹, M. Khurram², E. Capuano², F. Pugliese², M. Yaqoob², I. Mohamed²
¹Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom, ²Department of Renal and Transplantation, Royal London Hospital, Bart's Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Extensive cardiac investigations have long been considered necessary to aid decision-making in waitlisting for kidney transplantation. However, the utility and reliability of such comprehensive…
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Humoral Response After a Third Dose of Sars-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine in Transplant Recipients
A. E. Woolley, N. Sharma, G. Zhou, A. Kim, E. Ryan, M. Joyce, H. Goldberg, M. Givertz, M. Mehra, E. Woodcome, V. Durney, S. Marshall, K. Townsend, A. Coppolino, S. Tullius, S. Malek, H. Mallidi, L. Baden, A. Chandraker
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Prior studies demonstrated an increased immune response post-3rd COVID-19 vaccine dose when given 1-month post-2nd dose in solid organ transplant recipients (SOT). This study…
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Seroprevalence of HHV8 Among Donors and Recipients with HIV
P. H. Nambiar¹, T. Liang², J. D. Motter³, W. Werbel³, S. Mehta⁴, V. Kirchner⁵, M. Rana⁶, S. Florman⁷, J. Odim⁸, W. Miley⁹, N. Labo⁹, D. Whitby⁹, A. Massie¹⁰, D. Segev³, A. Tobian³, C. Durand²
¹Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, ²Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ⁴New York University Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY, ⁵University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁶Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁷Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁸National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁹National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, ¹⁰Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kaposi sarcoma (KS) can develop post-transplant via recipient HHV8 reactivation or donor-acquired HHV8. In the general US population, HHV8 seroprevalence is low (1-5%), yet…
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Area Deprivation Index is Associated with Worse Patient Survival Following Adult Liver Transplantation
J. Hendele¹, J. Perkins², J. Nichols³, A. Dick¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ²Clinical and Bio-Analytics Transplant Laboratory (CBATL), University of Washington, Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seattle, WA, ³School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Area Deprivation Index (ADI) has been utilized as a granular measure of local socioeconomic status for nearly two decades. This study is the first…
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More Than Just Drain Pipes, Pulmonary Lymphatics Play a Pivotal Role in the Development of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome
L. Wang¹, R. Han², H. Outtz Reed³, W. W. Hancock²
¹Childrens Hospital of Phila, Philadelphia, PA, ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ³Weill Cornell, New York, NY
*Purpose: Chronic allograft dysfunction (CLAD) remains a major determinant of the generally poor long-term outcome of lung transplantation compared to that of other solid organ…
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Living Donor Kidney Transplant in Recipients with Glomerulonephritis: Donor Recipient Biologic Relationship and Allograft Outcomes
R. El-Rifai¹, R. Spong¹, A. Bregman¹, K. Swanson¹, S. Jackson², S. Riad¹
¹Nephrology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²MHealth, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Controversies exist over the impact of donor-recipient biologic relationship on the outcomes of living donor kidney transplant in recipients with glomerulonephritis (GN). The improved…
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Focal Distribution of TCMR Causes False Negative Results in Spatially Resolved Molecular Diagnostic Assays
P. Randhawa, Y. Huang
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Molecular assays on ~3mm biopsy (BX) fragments of cannot confirm histologic T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) in ~50% of routine biopsies, and fail to detect…