2021 American Transplant Congress Archives

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Safety and Tolerability of Tacrolimus Extended-Release (astagraf Xl) in Hla Sensitized Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Experience

A. A. Vo, N. Ammerman, E. Huang, A. Peng, R. Najjar, S. Sethi, K. Lim, M. Gillespie, S. C. Jordan
Safety of Sars-cov-2 Mrna Vaccines in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

M. Ou, B. Boyarsky, J. Motter, R. Greenberg, A. Teles, J. Ruddy, M. Krach, W. Werbel, R. Avery, A. Massie, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang
Sampling Renal Biopsies in Pre-Clinical Research for Comprehensive Assessment

C. M. Edwards¹, C. Albert², D. Stern¹, J. Langford¹, W. Day², J. R. DiRito¹, W. M. Saltzman², M. Kashgarian³, J. S. Pober⁴, G. T. Tietjen¹
SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Response After Induction Therapy in Kidney Transplant Recipients

M. Lubetzky¹, S. Sultan², Z. Zhao³, M. Cushing³, Z. Kapur¹, S. Albakry¹, N. Hauser¹, J. Marku-Podvorica¹, R. Craig-Schapiro², J. Lee¹, T. Salinas¹, M. Aull², S. Kapur², M. Suthanthiran¹, D. Dadhania¹
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Brazilian Cohort Study

T. Sandes-Freitas¹, J. Medina-Pestana², o. COVID-19 Brazil Study Group³
SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Retrospective Cohort Study

A. Adeel
Sars-cov-2 Stat Testing for Organ Donation; One Laboratory’s Experience

S. Dionne, B. O'Neale
Sars-cov-2 versus Non-sars-cov-2 Infection Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Case Control Study

M. A. Mendoza¹, M. Raja¹, S. Anjan¹, S. C. Curel², G. Rosello³, A. Fernandez¹, A. Chandorkar⁴, C. O'Brien⁵, A. Phancao⁵, N. Sinha¹, R. Vianna¹, M. Loebe¹, C. Gaetano¹, J. Simkins¹, M. Morris¹, L. Abbo¹, J. Camargo¹, G. Guerra¹, Y. Natori¹
Screening, Management and Acceptance of Patients with Aortoiliac Vascular Disease for Kidney Transplantation: An International Survey Among Transplant Surgeons

E. Rijkse¹, H. J. Kimenai¹, F. J. Dor², J. N. IJzermans³, R. C. Minnee¹
Seasonal and Income-related Factors in Live Kidney Donation in the United States from 1995 to 2019

F. Al Ammary¹, A. Arking², G. Kaddu², J. Garonzik Wang², A. B. Massie², D. Segev², A. Muzaale²
Seasonality of Mortality for Solid Organ Waitlist Candidates

J. Miller, D. Musgrove
Seeing is Believing: Efficacy of a Video-based Intervention in Improving Awareness of Skin Cancer Risk for Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

E. Shah¹, S. Michalak¹, R. Haughton¹, B. Fernandez¹, I. Ahronowitz²
Segmental Susceptibility of Intestinal Stem Cells to Cold Storage Preservation Injury in a Porcine Model

E. K. Ludwig¹, N. Abraham², D. Sudan², A. Barbas², C. Schaaf¹, J. Freund¹, A. S. Stewart¹, B. Veerasammy¹, L. M. Gonzalez¹
Selective Bcl-2 Inhibition for Induction of Mixed Chimerism and Renal Allograft Tolerance without Myelosupression

G. Lassiter¹, T. Hirose¹, H. Sasaki¹, D. Ma¹, T. Oura¹, A. Dehnadi¹, A. Cosimi¹, P. Cippa², T. Fehr³, T. Kawai¹
Selective Bcl-2 Inhibition to Deplete Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Bone Marrow Niche: A Novel Approach to Promote Mixed Chimerism

T. Hirose¹, H. Sasaki¹, G. Lassiter¹, D. Ma¹, T. Oura¹, A. Dehnadi¹, A. Cosimi¹, P. Cippa², T. Fehr², T. Kawai¹
Selective Regulatory T Cell Expansion by a Novel IL-2 Mutein Prolongs Skin Transplant Survival in Mice

T. J. Borges¹, O. Effe¹, R. B. Gassen¹, A. Al Jurdi¹, I. T. Lape¹, G. J. Babcock², S. M. Carlson², J. C. Madsen¹, L. V. Riella¹
Sensitized Lung Candidates Experience Reduced Access to Donor Organs

K. Lindblad¹, R. Goff², D. Stewart²
Sequential Analysis of Renal Allograft Rejection at Single Cell Resolution

T. Shi¹, C. Castro-Rojas¹, A. Burg¹, K. Roskin¹, J. Rush², B. Haraldsson², A. Shields³, R. Alloway³, E. Woodle³, D. Hildeman¹
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Transplant Recipients in a Croatian Transplant Center

A. Mrzljak¹, Z. Jurekovic¹, J. Pavicic Saric², L. Antolasic³, L. Milasincic³, I. Tabain³, T. Vilibic Cavlek³
Serum Phosphatidylethanol is Superior to Urine Ethyl Glucuronide for Detection of Alcohol Use in Pre-transplant Patients

N. Lim¹, T. Leventhal¹, M. Thomson¹, M. Hassan¹, J. Thompson¹, S. Chinnakotla², V. Kirchner², T. Pruett², R. Kandaswamy², V. Humphreville², A. Adams², J. Lake¹
Serum Phosphatidylethanol is Superior to Urine Ethyl Glucuronide for Diagnosis of Alcohol Relapse in Liver Transplant Recipients

N. Lim¹, T. Leventhal¹, M. Thomson¹, M. Hassan¹, J. Thompson¹, S. Chinnakotla², V. Kirchner², T. Pruett², R. Kandaswamy², V. Humphreville², A. Adams², J. Lake¹
Severe Hypoxemia After Liver Transplantation in the Hepatopulmonary Syndrome

J. Doi, M. Fujiki, G. DAmico, K. Sasaki, T. Diago, F. Aucejo, C. Kwon, B. Eghtesad, K. Hashimoto, C. Miller, Q. Cristiano
Sharing Under KAS – What is the Impact According to KDPI?

M. Jacobs, R. Stratta, C. Jay
Sharp Anti-HLA Antibody Development Due to Concomitant Graft Nephrectomy and Immunosuppression Withdrawal After Early Graft Loss

R. Valero¹, A. Aguilera¹, E. Rodrigo¹, D. San Segundo², M. Lopez-Hoyos², J. Ruiz¹
Short Term Outcomes in Previously Covid Positive Kidney Transplant Recipients in Pre-vaccine Era

R. Prashar, N. J. Khoury, M. Ramesh, A. K. Patel
Short Term Outcomes in Previously Covid Positive Living Kidney Donors and Their Recipients

R. Prashar, N. J. Khoury, M. Ramesh, A. K. Patel
Short Waiting Time is Not Associated with Decrease in Disease-free Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients with HCC

J. Daum¹, N. Gupta¹, B. Aqel², L. Mi³, J. Harbell⁴
Short-term Therapy with Anti-icam-1 Monoclonal Antibody Induced Long-term Liver Allograft Survival in Non-human Primates

S. Hong¹, D. Han², S. Lee², J. Kim³, E. Hwang³, H. Kim⁴, J. Lee⁵, K. Hong¹, E. Han¹, J. Cho¹, J. Lee¹, Y. Choi¹, K. Lee¹, N. Yi¹, J. Yang¹, K. Suh¹
Should We Curtail the Importance of Non-modifiable Risk Factors in Dcd Liver Risk Stratification?

R. Meier¹, Y. Kelly², S. Yamaguchi², H. Braun², T. Lunow-Luke², D. Adelmann², C. Niemann², D. Maluf¹, Z. Dietch², P. Stock², S. Kang², S. Feng², A. Posselt², J. Gardner², C. Freise², R. Hirose², C. Freise², N. Ascher², J. Roberts², G. Roll²
Should We Worry About Covid-19 Infection in Pediatric SOT?

U. Ekong¹, S. Paul¹, S. Royal², J. Chahine³, N. Yazigi¹, S. Kaufman¹, K. Khan¹, C. Matsumoto¹, A. Kroemer¹, T. Fishbein¹
Sigma-1 Receptor Agonists are Renoprotective in Experimental Kidney Transplantation

A. Hosszu¹, T. Lakat¹, A. Toth¹, D. Balogh¹, J. Hodrea¹, L. J. Wagner², A. J. Szabo¹, A. Fekete¹
Significance of Detectable but Unquantifiable Viremias Post Renal Transplantation

M. Chaung, S. Puri, S. Bunin, Z. Mondal, O. Eletta, R. Pelletier, A. Bongu
Significance of Repeated 1r Rejections in Heart Transplantation

C. Hsueh¹, L. Wilson², L. Bow², L. Bellumkonda²
Simulation Model for Cytomegalovirus Matching in Deceased Donor Kidney Allocation System in the U.S.

B. Tanriover¹, V. K. Ariyamuthu¹, T. Zangeneh², M. M. Al Obaidi², Y. Ulukus³, M. A. Ergun³, B. Sandikci⁴
Simultaneous Heart-Liver-Kidney Transplantation Survival: National and Single-Center Outcomes

U. A. Siddiqi¹, P. S. Combs¹, G. Kim², T. Baker³, Y. Becker¹, V. Jeevanandam¹
Simultaneous Pancreas-kidney Transplantation (spk) and, Simultaneous Deceased Donor Pancreas and Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (splk) in Diabetic Patients with End Stage Renal Disease

Y. Ko
Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation in Caucasian versus African American Patients: Does Recipient Ethnicity Influence Outcomes?

J. Rogers¹, A. Farney², G. Orlando², C. Jay², K. Gurung², B. Sharda², A. Reeves-Daniel³, A. Mena-Gutierrez³, N. Sakhovskaya³, W. Doares⁴, S. Kaczmorski⁴, M. Magid⁴, M. Gautreaux², R. Stratta²
Single Cell Analysis of Living Donor Kidneys Reveals Sex-based Diversity in Proximal Tubulargene Expression

C. M. McEvoy¹, J. M. Szusz², S. Clotet-Freixas¹, J. An², S. MacParland², G. Bader³, S. Q. Crome², A. Konvalinka¹
Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Tim1- B Cells and Tim1+ Regulatory B Cells

Q. Fu¹, K. Lee², K. Deng², D. Agarwal³, P. v. Galen⁴, C. G. Rickert², G. Huai², H. Yang¹, C. LeGuern², S. Deng¹, J. F. Markmann²
Single Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals a Global Increase in Inflammatory Gene Signature Following Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion

K. Carlson, J. Pavan-Guimaraes, B. Verhoven, J. Verhagen, F. Najmabadi, D. P. Al-Adra
Single Cell Rna-Sequencing of Urinary Cells and Defining the Immune Landscape of Rejection in Human Kidney Allografts

T. Muthukumar¹, H. Yang¹, A. Belkadi², G. Thareja², C. Li¹, C. Snopkowski¹, K. Chen¹, T. Salinas¹, M. Lubetzky¹, J. Lee¹, D. Dadhania¹, K. Suhre², M. Suthanthiran¹
Single Cell RNAq-seq Analysis of Paired Peripheral and Intragraft T Cells Reveals Biopsy Specific Fc Receptor Gene Expression in Rejection Only

A. Malone, A. Leckie-Harre, I. Silverman, A. Chadha, H. Wu, B. Humphreys
Single Center Experience Comparing Two Clinically Available Donor Derived Cell Free DNA Tests

S. Bunnapradist¹, S. Lee², P. Homkrailas³, G. Danovitch³
Single Center Experience in Ex Vivo Hilar Renal Artery Aneurysm Repair and Autotransplantation

A. Chang¹, K. Cederquist¹, P. Abt¹, G. Wang², B. Jackson², A. Naji¹
Single Center Experience on SARS-CoV-2 Testing of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients

H. Pizzo¹, P. R. Soni², S. Nadipuram², J. Garrison¹, D. Puliyanda¹
Single Day Centralized Approach in Kidney Transplant Workup – Lessons Learned from 2 Centers

A. Vijay, N. Langford, K. Atiemo, S. Giusti, M. Killackey, A. Paramesh, H. Jeon
Single Incision Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation: Outcomes and Feasibility

D. Imai, Y. Sambommatsu, A. Khan, S. Lee, A. Sharma, V. Kumaran, D. Bruno, A. Cotterell, C. Bhati, M. F. Levy
Single-cell Rna Sequencing of Latent Murine Cytomegalovirus Infected Lung Transplants

L. A. VanOsdol¹, S. Han¹, M. Kandpul², J. J. Wang¹, L. Qiu³, Z. J. Zhang¹
Single-Cell RNA-seq Identifies Intra-Graft Population Heterogeneity in Acute Heart Allograft Rejection in the Mouse

C. Wu¹, Y. Tang¹, X. Shi¹, X. He¹, X. Li²
Single-Dose Basiliximab Induction Therapy in Low-Immunologic Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients

A. Hutchins, J. Schoen, J. S. McMullen
Sirolimus (srl) versus Everolimus (evr) versus Mycophenolate (mpa) in Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Anti-thymocyte Globulin Induction (r-atg), Tacrolimus (tac), and Prednisone

H. Tedesco Silva Junior, C. Felipe, L. Viana, M. Cristelli, N. Tenorio, V. Lima, V. Azevedo, K. Ficher, J. Rezende, R. Foresto, M. Nakamura, Y. Dreige, J. Taddeo, C. Zito, J. Medina
Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate Use in Kidney Transplant Recipients

K. J. Swanson, F. Aziz, S. Parajuli, M. Mohamed, D. A. Mandelbrot, A. Djamali, N. Garg
Solid Organ Transplant Recipient Attitudes Towards a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

M. Ou¹, B. Boyarsky¹, L. Zeiser¹, T. Chiang¹, J. Ruddy¹, S. Rasmussen¹, J. Martin², J. Russell², C. Durand¹, R. Avery¹, W. Werbel¹, M. Cooper³, A. Massie¹, D. Segev¹, J. Garonzik-Wang¹
Solid Organ Transplant Recipients and Healthcare Burden in Covid19 Era

A. Basu, N. Sharma, R. Subramanian, L. Sridharan, S. Pastan, T. Pearson
Solid Organ Transplant Telehealth Utilization Significantly Increased During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Experience at a Single, Large Volume Center

R. Forbes, K. Kumm, H. O'Dell, K. Smith, L. Smith, A. Dreher, H. Schaefer, B. Concepcion
SPK Transplantation in HIV-positive Recipients

H. Resweber, k. nguyen, H. Curtis, J. Panichella, A. DI Carlo, S. Karhadkar
Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (syk): A Novel Regulator of Neutrophil Infiltration in Hepatic Iri

V. Boominathan, A. Kobayashi, S. Duarte, A. Zarrinpar
Src Kinase Inhibitor Pp1 Blunts Tgf-β1 Dependent Endothelial‐to‐Mesenchymal Transition to Alleviate Allograft Kidney Fibrosis Through Orchestrating β-catenin Signaling

Z. Gui, Z. Wang, Z. Han, J. Tao, X. Ju, R. Tan, M. Gu
State-level Trend in the Prevalence of Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis for Liver Transplant Candidates in the United States, 2001-2017

S. Chang¹, M. Wang¹, M. Pozo², D. Ladner², D. Borja-Cacho²
Status of Kidney Allocation in Liver-kidney Transplants Before and After the UNOS/OPTN Policy

J. Oveyssi, M. Hussain, P. Homkrailas, S. Bunnapradist
Stem Cell and Novel Neurotrophic Factors to Promote Functional Outcomes in Limb Transplantation

S. K. Salgar¹, J. Weiss², C. Phillips², E. Malin², V. Gorantla³, J. Harding⁴
Steroid-free Immunosuppression in Heart-Kidney Transplant Patients: Is It Safe?

R. Skorka, J. Patel, M. Kittleson, N. Patel, T. Singer-Englar, A. Velleca, B. Azarbal, D. Chang, E. Kransdorf, L. Czer, D. Megna, J. A. Kobashigawa
Subjective Cognition Among Liver Transplant Recipients

D. Ko¹, M. S. Dietrich², K. A. Gifford³, S. H. Ridner²
Successful Induction of Hematopoietic Chimerism by Dual Inhibition of Mcl-1 and Bcl-2 Without Myeloablative Treatments in Nonhuman Primates

T. Hirose, D. Ma, G. Lassiter, T. Kawai
Successful Long Term Survival of Vascularized Composite Allografts After Extended Preservation at Subzero Temperatures Using Bioinspired Next Generation Cryoprotectants

M. Kline¹, S. Fidder², A. Callegari¹, A. Matoso², B. Oh², K. Lombardo², J. Etra², D. Vasilic³, A. Childs¹, R. Redett², G. Brandacher², X. Wei¹
Successful Long-Term TMA- and Rejection-Free Survival of a Kidney Xenograft With Triple Xenoantigen Knockout Plus Insertion of Multiple Human Transgenes

T. Hirose¹, D. Ma¹, G. Lassiter¹, H. Sasaki¹, I. Rosales², T. Coe¹, C. Rickert¹, R. Matheson¹, R. Colvin², W. Qin³, Y. Kan³, J. Layer³, K. Stiede³, K. Hall³, M. Youd³, W. Westlin³, M. Curtis³, J. F. Markmann¹, T. Kawai¹
Successful Outcomes from Selected Akin3 Donors Requiring Renal Replacement: Avenue for Increase in Organ Utilization

P. Budhiraja¹, R. L. Heilman¹, M. L. Smith², H. A. Khamash¹, L. Kodali¹, A. A. Moss³, A. K. Mathur³, C. Jadlowiec³, K. S. Reddy³
Successful Prophylaxis of Antibody-Mediated Rejection by Downregulation of C5 Expression via RNA Interference in a Rat Kidney Transplant Model

H. Ishigooka¹, S. Motoi², T. Yamakawa¹, C. Matsui², Y. Suzuki³, R. Ishii¹, K. Saiga¹, D. Tokita¹, T. Imai², K. Tanabe¹
Successful Single-Center Experience Using HCV+ Organs for Single and Dual-Organ Transplantation

S. Aslam, C. Logan, N. Law, J. Kerr, J. Kozuch, V. Ajmera, K. Afshar, A. Khan, E. Adler, K. Mekeel, E. Golts, V. Pretorius
Summary of the OPTN’s Policy and System Modifications in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

A. Wilk, S. Taranto, C. Jett, L. Cartwright
Superior Metabolic Function of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients After Simultaneous Kidney/pancreas Transplantation Compared with Kidney Transplantation Alone

X. Y. Fu, C. Yu, H. Wang, J. Zhao, Z. Wang, C. Mo, X. Shi, G. Feng, W. Song, Z. Shen
Superior Post-transplant Clinical Outcomes Using Portable Normothermic Perfusion and Assessment with the Organ Care System (ocs) Liver System: 1-year Outcomes of the Ocs Liver Protect Randomized Controlled Trial

J. Markmann¹, M. Abouljoud², M. Ghobrial³, C. Bhati⁴, S. Pelletier⁵, J. Magliocca⁶, T. Pruett⁷, A. Lu⁸, M. Rizzari⁹, S. Ottmann¹⁰, T. Klair¹¹, C. Eymard¹², G. Roll¹³, G. Reyes¹⁴, S. Black¹⁵, S. Florman¹⁶, S. Mirani¹⁷, C. Marsh¹⁸, G. Schnickel¹⁹, M. Kinkhabwala²⁰, A. Demetris²¹, H. Yeh²², P. Vagefi²³, M. MacConmara²³
Suppression of T Cell Proliferation by Activated Nonhuman Primate B Cells

K. Lee, K. Deng, G. Huai, F. Qiang, C. Rickert, J. Lei, C. Leguern, J. Markmann
Survey of Transplantation Providers to Assess for Implicit Bias at a Single Center

C. Ramirez-Sanchez¹, A. Cardenas², S. Aslam¹, F. Ferguson², M. Vazquez², T. Magee², K. Mekeel²
Survival Adult Liver Transplantation: Experience in a Latinoamerican High Complexity Center. 15 Years with More Than 500 Transplants

C. A. Murcia, N. Ramirez, M. E. Ramos, C. Benavides, J. Rivera, G. Mejia
Survival After Heart Transplant vs. Simultaneous Heart Kidney Transplant by Degrees of Renal Dysfunction at Engraftment in the United States: A Multivariable Analysis

S. M. Riad¹, M. Aljuhani¹, S. Jackson², T. Alexy¹, H. Wadie³, C. Martin¹, R. Kandaswamy⁴
Survival Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients Aged 18-60 Years by CMV Discordance Status: A Multivariable Analysis

A. Dinesh¹, T. Shaker¹, S. Jackson², S. Riad³, T. L. Pruett¹
Symptoms on MTSOSD Questionnaire in Pancreas Transplantation Recipients

R. Kaur, S. R. Rizvi, B. H. Smith, C. Reid, S. K. McCrady-Spitzer, W. K. Kremers, P. G. Dean, A. Kukla, M. D. Stegall, Y. C. Kudva
Systematic Evaluation of Immunosuppressant Drug Tolerability in Lung Transplant Recipients with Short Telomere Syndrome

R. Patolia¹, R. Guzy², L. Potter¹
Systematic Implementation of Alcohol Screening Program Using Urine Ethyl Glucuronide Can Identify Post-transplant Alcohol Use and Aid Return to Sobriety in Liver Transplant Recipients

N. Lim¹, T. Leventhal¹, M. Thomson¹, M. Hassan¹, J. Thompson¹, S. Chinnakotla², V. Kirchner², T. Pruett¹, R. Kandaswamy², V. Humphreville², A. Adams², J. Lake¹
Systematic Screening of Kidney Transplant Patients Points Towards Deficits in Neutralizing Antibody Capacity Against Sars-cov-2

V. Wijtvliet¹, K. K. Ariën², J. Mariën², B. Peeters³, R. Hellemans⁴, A. Massart⁴, S. Van Hees¹, P. Moons⁵, H. Theeten⁶, P. Van Damme⁶, H. Goossens⁷, B. Y. De Winter¹, K. J. Ledeganck¹, D. Abramowicz⁴
Systemic Venous versus Portal Venous Drainage in Simultaneous Pancreas-kidney Transplantation: A Matched-pair Analysis

B. Sharda