2020 American Transplant Congress
Dual Kidney Transplantation Offers a Safe and Effective Way to Use Kidneys from Deceased Donors Older Than 70 Years
Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Dual kidney transplantation (DKT) offers a way to extend the use of kidneys from expanded criteria donors (ECDs). Here, we compared the outcomes of…2020 American Transplant Congress
Association between Sarcopenia and Nutritional Factors in Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Malnutrition is an important risk factor for the development of sarcopenia. Several methods are used for the assessment of nutritional status including serum albumin…2020 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics of Anonymous Living Donors and Their Recipients. Appropriate Use of a Rare and Valuable Gift
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Anonymous Living Donors are a special select set of donors. As there continues to be advances in Paired Donation, we review the trends and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Multi-National Survey among Nephrologists and Transplant Surgeons About the Suitability and Acceptance of the Marginal Live Kidney Donors Regarding Age Discrepancy
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation is the best option for patients on dialysis. There are no guidelines or generally accepted consensus about the acceptable kidney…2020 American Transplant Congress
Aging Aggravated Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury by Promoting Sting-Mediated NLRP3 Activation in Macrophages
The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
*Purpose: Aggravated liver injury and enhanced intrahepatic inflammation was found in old livers post ischemia and reperfusion (IR). However, the function and underlying mechanism of…2020 American Transplant Congress
Age-Enhanced Transplant Vasculopathy Associates with Impaired Vascular Mitophagy
*Purpose: Donor aging leads to increased chronic allograft vasculopathy (CAV) for unclear reasons. Here, we investigated whether impaired alterations in mitophagy, a mechanism to remove…2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Predicts Increased Length of Stay after Kidney Transplantation: An Implementation Study
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Our objective was to implement a standardized an assessment of physical frailty and other aging-associated syndromes during routine evaluation of kidney transplant candidates over…2020 American Transplant Congress
Development and Characterization of Decellularized Whole Human Livers for Increasing Donor Pool
Massachusetts General Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Liver diseases are recognized as the second leading cause of mortality amongst all digestive diseases in the United States. Orthotopic liver transplantation leads to…2020 American Transplant Congress
Roles of Calpastatin in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Aged Livers
Surgery, Washington University St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Aged livers are far more susceptible to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury than young livers. No therapeutic strategies are available to reduce I/R injury in elderly…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Simple Scoring System for Risk Stratification in Liver Transplantation after Donor Liver Biopsy
Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Macrosteatosis (MaS) identified on donor liver biopsy (DLBx) influences organ utilization but alone is not predictive of outcomes following liver transplantation (LT). Here we…
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