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  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Creating a Lung Transplant Program Search Tool Tailored to Patient Characteristics

    W. T. McKinney1, C. R. Schaffhausen1, M. Bruin2, S. Chu2, J. Snyder3, M. Hertz4, M. Valapour5, B. Kasiske6, A. Israni1

    1Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 2College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 3Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN, 4Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 5Pulmonary Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 6Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Criteria for selecting lung transplant candidates and donors vary between programs and evolve as clinical practice advances. This variation impacts patient outcomes and the…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Creating a Culturally Sensitive Report Card for African American Kidney Transplant Candidates: Preliminary Results from Pilot Interviews and Focus Groups

    W. T. McKinney1, M. Bruin2, B. Kasiske3, A. Matas4, A. K. Israni3

    1Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 2College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 3Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, 4Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Racial disparities in kidney transplantation continue to negatively impact African American (AA) patients despite changes to deceased donor allocation practices. AA patients are overrepresented…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Summary of the OPTN’s Policy and System Modifications in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    A. Wilk, S. Taranto, C. Jett, L. Cartwright

    UNOS, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: In April 2020, the OPTN made several policy and system modifications in response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic including updates to candidate lab data,…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Feasibility of a Virtual Renal Transplant Simulation Model for Surgical Trainees in the Covid Era

    O. Eletta1, S. Iacono1, D. Walls1, S. Puri2, B. Perry1, C. Anderson1, M. J. Nguyen3, A. Bongu2

    1General Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, 2Transplant, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, 3Transplant Institute, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

    *Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing requirements has affected our resident education curriculum. We developed a virtual renal transplant simulation session to simulate renal…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Broader Distribution of Kidneys Not Projected to Systematically Favor “Low” Performing OPOs

    A. Wilk1, S. Gustafson2, D. Stewart1, N. Salkowski2, D. Zaun2, J. Snyder2

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA, 2Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: In August 2019, the OPTN Kidney (KI) Transplantation Committee put forth a proposal for public comment to replace DSA and region from KI allocation…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Alkalization Increases Macula Densa NOS1β Expression and Improves Transplanted Renal Graft Function

    J. Buggs1, J. Zhang2, J. Wei2, L. Wang2

    1Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, 2Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL

    *Purpose: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major survival hurdle with kidney transplantation (KTX). Currently, no effective strategies for the prevention and treatment of IRI during…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Oral Administration of Nano-Sized Silicon Particles Regulates Gene Expression Related to Oxidative Stress and Attenuates Rat Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury

    M. Kawamura1, R. Imamura1, Y. Kobayashi2, A. Taniguchi1, S. Nakazawa1, T. Kato1, T. Abe1, H. Kobayashi2, N. Nonomura1

    1Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, 2The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

    *Purpose: Organ ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is unavoidable in kidney transplantation and induces reactive oxygen species and causes organ damage. Although the effectiveness of hydrogen…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Hybrid Data Envelopment Analysis-Artificial Neural Network (DEANN) Technique for Extrapolating the Evolution of Kidney Transplant Patients

    F. Santos-Arteaga1, D. Di Caprio2, D. Cucchiari3, J. M. Campistol3, F. Oppenheimer3, F. Diekmann3, I. Revuelta3

    1Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, 2Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, 3Renal Transplant Unit, Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain

    *Purpose: The current study introduces a hybrid Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) - Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to extrapolate the evolution of transplant patients based…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Efficacy Of CMV Prophylaxis In Liver Transplant Recipients

    S. LeCorchick, T. Tinkham, N. Oliver, L. Lindberg, L. Dong, J. Krong, R. Gilroy

    Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT

    *Purpose: Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a ubiquitous beta herpesvirus present in the human population at rates between 30% and 90%. It can be transmitted via…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Ready for Transplantation: Getting the Right Messages Across at the Right Time

    D. Goodall, K. Tansey, S. Clarke-Swaby, P. Webster, E. Salisbury, J. Tomlinson, R. Bright, W. Brown

    Imerial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: Successful outcomes post-transplantation demands significant commitment from patients therefore it is crucial that they have a good understanding of what is involved. Our pharmacist…
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