2022 American Transplant Congress
Rates Of Dermatology Follow-up And New Skin Cancer Diagnosis Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients During The Covid-19 Pandemic
USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) are at an elevated risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancers. Routine dermatologic surveillance has been shown to improve skin…2022 American Transplant Congress
Patient Definitions of Transplant Success of Upper Extremity VCA
*Purpose: Little is known about how to measure "success" of upper extremity (UE) vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) given its relative novelty and low frequency. While…2022 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Significance of Delayed Graft Function and Slow Graft Function in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: The delayed graft function (DGF) after kidney transplantation (KT) affects long-term graft and patient survival. We explored the time-trend of DGF and associated risk…2022 American Transplant Congress
Use The Vascularized Sentinel Skin Flap For Prophylaxis Of Antibody-mediated Rejection After Kidney Transplantation In Highly Sensitized Patients
*Purpose: Patients with high titer of preexisting donor specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) have very high risk of antibody mediated rejection development and followed by the…2022 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allograft Loss After Simultaneous Liver Kidney (SLK) Transplant Before and After the New SLK Allocation Criteria Implementation
1Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Analytics, Mhealth-Fairview, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: On August 10, 2017 UNOS/OPTN implemented new allocation criteria for simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplants. We sought to examine the association between the new allocation…2022 American Transplant Congress
Reasons for Kidney Transplant Patients to Have Outpatient Urine Cultures in the First Year Post-Transplant: An Analysis of the USRDS
*Purpose: Urine cultures are frequently sent in the first year after kidney transplant, but the reasons that testing is done post-transplant is not well understood.…2022 American Transplant Congress
Improved Mortality in COVID-19 Kidney Transplant Recipients Treated with Bamlanivimab
Nephrology, UC Irvine, Orange, CA
*Purpose: Transplant recipients are particularly vulnerable to catastrophic sequelae of COVID-19. In an early multi-center study of 482 solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients with COVID-19,…2022 American Transplant Congress
Place Based Risk for Early Rejection in Lung Transplant
*Purpose: Within 5 years after lung transplant (LT), half of recipients have lost 20% or more of lung function. Despite a consistent link between social…2022 American Transplant Congress
Neighborhood Spatial Accessibility is Not Associated with Days Alive and Out of the Hospital After Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: Transportation-related barriers to care or to health-promoting resources are often referenced as challenges during the kidney transplant process. However, little is known about the…2022 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus versus Mycophenolate in Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation: Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy in a Prospective Randomized Trial
*Purpose: mTOR inhibitors are known for their antiangiogenic effect. We compared the impact of everolimus (E) and mycophenolic acid (MPA) on the course of diabetic…
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