2022 American Transplant Congress
Prediction Model of Post-Donation Renal Function Using Dynamic Kidney CT Volumetry in Living Donor
*Purpose: The risk of renal failure after live kidney donation can be predicted based on various clinical information. We tried introduce a model to predict…2022 American Transplant Congress
Organ Tracking Combined with Real-Time Communication to Reduce Organ Shipment Delays and Cit: The First Report of a Comprehensive, Scalable System for Organ Tracking and Communication in the United States
1MediGO, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Recent organ allocation strategies have elevated the complexity of organ shipment, increasing the organ travel time and distance. Despite these changes, logistics, time, and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Multidimensional Prognostication Tool for Kidney Transplant Patient Survival: The Mortality Mbox
*Purpose: Predicting kidney transplant patient mortality has been hampered by registry-based studies and low level phenotyped cohorts without specific design towards mortality prediction. This represents…2022 American Transplant Congress
Influence of the Competing Risk of Recipient Death on the Risk Estimation of Kidney Transplant Failure
*Purpose: Prognostic models for kidney transplant failure are often based on methods that censor for recipient death. Death is a competing event biasing the risk…2022 American Transplant Congress
Vitrification of Pancreatic Islets and Transplantation
1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: A limitation to potential cure for diabetes through islet transplantation is insufficient islet equivalence (IEQ) from a single donor to achieve insulin independence in…2022 American Transplant Congress
Significant Reduction of Troponin I Elaboration After Ischemia Minimization in the First Hour of Ex Vivo Xeno Heart Perfusion
*Purpose: Previous studies showed that ischemia minimization (IM), accomplished by perfusing the heart xenograft during storage, prevents ‘initial cardiac xenograft dysfunction’ (ICXD) and enables prolonged…2022 American Transplant Congress
Consent to Organ Offers from Public Health Service Increased Risk Donors Decreases Time to Transplant and Waitlist Mortality
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The Public Health Service Increased Risk designation identified organ donors at increased risk of transmitting hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus. Despite…2022 American Transplant Congress
Management and Outcomes of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and immunosuppression modification in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, and…2022 American Transplant Congress
Center Volume and Transplant Outcomes in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients; A Competing Risk Analysis
1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
*Purpose: The precise effect of center volume is a much-debated topic in the field of transplantation. Several studies have shown better post-transplant outcomes in higher…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplantation Liver Immunoadsorption Reduces Liver-Specific Antibody and Complement Deposition without Prolonging Survival in Porcine to Baboon Liver Xenotransplantation
1Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2eGenesis, Inc, Cambridge, MA
*Purpose: Triple knock-out pigs lacking GGTA1, β4GALNT2, CMAH genes are hypothesized to be the optimal donor for human xenotransplantation, however there is evidence that TKO…
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