Am J Transplant, Volume 5, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 78 of 170 - ATC Abstracts

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Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Incidental Hepatocellular Carcinoma Detected in the Explanted Liver Following Transplant
M. Goh, J. Ali, G. Pettigrew.
Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Despite pre-operative cross-sectional imaging, incidental hepatocellular carcinoma (iHCC) is sometimes diagnosed upon histological examination of the liver explant following transplantation for another indication. Whilst…
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Health Utilities in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
S. Mohammad, A. Bharij, K. Neighbors, E. Alonso.
Pediatrics, Northwestern U, Chicago.
Health Utilities (HU) are preference based measures of health states required for cost effectiveness studies. We measured HU and health related quality of life (HRQOL)…
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Home Dried Blood Spot Monitoring; a New Tool for Measuring Variability in Tacrolimus Blood Levels Over Time
A. Al-Uzri, K. Freeman, K. Clark, L. Bleyle, S. Iragorri, R. Jenkins, D. Rozansky, D. Koop.
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR.
PURPOSE: The measurement of variability in Tacrolimus (TAC) blood trough levels has been proposed to reflect the consistency with medication intake and adherence. A standard…
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Identification of CXCR5⁺EBV-Specific CD8⁺ T Cells in Peripheral Blood of Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Correlates With IL-21 Production and EBV Reactivation
C. Macedo,¹ K. Hadi,¹ D. Rowe,² J. Luce,³ S. Webber,⁴ B. Feingold,³ D. Metes.¹
¹Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ²Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ³Pediatrics-Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh; ⁴Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville.
Approximately 70% of EBV asymptomatic pediatric heart transplant (HTx) recipients carry chronic EBV loads in peripheral blood. These EBV loads may occur due to impaired…
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Program-Effect Attenuation With Time Posttransplant
N. Salkowski,¹ L. Hunsicker,^1,2 J. Snyder,¹ B. Kasiske.^1,3
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN; ²Department of Medicine, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; ³Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
The program-specific reports produced by SRTR include 1-month, 1-year, and 3-year posttransplant graft and patient survival measures. The 1-month and 1-year measures use the same…
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CMV IgG Provides Similar Anti-CMV Efficacy as Valganciclovir in High-Risk Organ Transplant Recipients, With Reduced Costs
N. Pilch, D. Taber, C. Schaffner, S. Nadig, J. McGillicuddy, C. Bratton, P. Baliga, K. Chavin.
MUSC, Charleston, SC.
Abdominal organ transplants at high risk for CMV infection (D+/R-) remain a difficult cohort to prevent late CMV infection despite prolonged valganciclovir (VGC) administration. Administration…
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Dengue Virus Infection Among Renal Transplant Recipients: A Series of 10 Cases in a Tropical Country
S. Costa,^1,2 C. Jacinto,¹ L. Martiniano,¹ Y. Amaral,¹ F. Paes,² M. Sales,² E. Daher,^1,2 G. Junior,³ R. Esmeraldo.²
¹Post-Graduation Program in Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil; ²Division of Renal Transplantation, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil; ³Post-Graduation Program in Collective Health, School of Medicine, Sciences Center, University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Background: Dengue in an important endemic disease in many parts of the world. The aim of this study is to describe a case series of…
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Post-Donation Outcomes in 46 Live Pancreas Donors
V. Kirchner, D. Sutherland, T. Dunn, E. Finger, T. Pruett, R. Kandaswamy.
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Background: Live donor segmental pancreas transplants have been performed selectively to increase the pool of donors, minimize cold ischemia time, and to avoid brain death.…
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Pediatrics & Donor Derived Disease Transmission: The US OPTN Experience
M. Green,¹ S. Taranto,² S. Covington,² M. Michaels,¹ C. Wolfe,³ D. Kaul.⁴
¹Pediatrics & Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; ²OPTN/UNOS, Richmond, VA; ³Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; ⁴Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI.
Potential donor derived disease transmission events (PDDTE) are tracked by the OPTN DTAC. Specific evaluation of potential transmissions from pediatric (ped) donors or the impact…
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ABO-Incompatible Live Donor Kidney Transplants Inferior to ABO-Compatible Transplants, but Match Deceased Donor Results: Is Kidney Paired Donation the Answer?
J. Verbesey, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert, M. Grafals, P. Weems, J. Moore, S. Ghasemian, C. Nilubol, B. Javaid.
Georgetown University School of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Washington, DC.
Objective: Compare kidney allograft survival in ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) and ABO-compatible (ABO-C) live donor kidney transplant recipients.Methods: We analyzed UNOS database for patients who underwent a…