Articles tagged "Graft failure"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Medical Costs in the Year Following Kidney Transplantation: Relationships with Renal Function and Graft Failure
M. Cooper¹, M. A. Schnitzler², C. Nilubol¹, W. Wang³, X. Zhu³, J. Wu³, R. J. Nordyke⁴
¹MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ³Genesis Research, Hoboken, NJ, ⁴Angion Biomedica, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We describe relationships between total medical costs in the first year following kidney transplant with overall renal function as measured by: 1) estimated glomerular…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Time-averaged Oxygen Saturation During Donor Agonal Phase is Associated with Post-transplant Hepatic Graft Survival
K. C. Eddinger¹, E. M. Sonnenberg¹, A. Kayastha², N. Mahmud³, D. E. Schaubel², P. L. Abt¹
¹Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Gastroenterology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Livers harvested from donors after cardiac death (DCD) are subjected to a period of relative warm ischemia during the agonal phase. There have been…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Liver Dysfunction Following Lung Transplantation
E. J. Hyzny¹, E. G. Chan¹, J. P. Ryan¹, T. Harano¹, M. R. Morrell², P. G. Sanchez¹
¹Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: To describe the incidence and risk factors for postoperative hepatic dysfunction (POHD) following lung transplantation (LT) and long-term outcomes for these patients.*Methods: We performed…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor and Recipient Age Difference: Outcomes within the First Year of Orthotopic Heart Transplant
M. Mascetti, M. Manson, Z. Truman
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX
*Purpose: In recent history, the number of patients listed as eligible to receive a heart transplant has increased by nearly 40%. However, not all hearts…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Improved Patient Survival in DCD Liver Transplantation
O. Bushara¹, J. Alhalel¹, H. Azad¹, T. Cerri², S. Zafer², J. C. Caicedo¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Rosalind Franklin Medical School, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: We aim to investigate longitudinal outcomes in DCD liver transplantation over a 10-year period and elucidate trends in patient survival, biliary complication rates, and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Combined Warm and Cold Ischemia Times on Post Transplant Outcomes
M. E. Foley¹, A. J. Vinson², K. K. Tennankore²
¹Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Division of Nephrology, Medicine, Dalhousie University/ Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, NS, Canada
*Purpose: Both prolonged warm ischemia time (WIT) and cold ischemia time (CIT) have been associated with an increased risk of graft failure following kidney transplantation,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Findings from the BARETO Study: A New, Composite Renal Vascular Plaque Score is Highly Associated with Kidney Graft Survival
J. Foutz¹, D. Stewart¹, L. Kamal², H. McGehee¹, P. Saravanane², S. Yu², R. Yousfi², G. Gupta²
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Whether anatomic findings such as aortic and arterial renal plaque affect kidney graft outcomes is not well defined. Other than anatomical damage, it is…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Corticosteroid Reintroduction in Urban Simultaneous Kidney-pancreas Transplant Recipients Following an Early Corticosteroid Withdrawal Protocol
D. Pierce, P. West-Thielke, M. Campara, I. Tang, M. Spaggiari, I. Tzvetanov, E. Benedetti, A. Lichvar
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Approximately 30% of patients who undergo simultaneous kidney-pancreas (SKP) transplant are maintained on dual therapy with tacrolimus and mycophenolate. Long-term implications of steroid reintroduction…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Conversion: Are Patients BENEFIT-ing
R. Crew, S. Mohan, S. S. Patel
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Belatacept is increasingly used in renal transplant recipients experiencing adverse effects from calcineurin inhibitors(CNI) despite limited medium- and long- term data on safety and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Quantifiable Loss of Insulin Secretory Granules in Delayed Endocrine Pancreas Graft Function in Comparison to Controls
C. B. Drachenberg¹, J. C. Papadimitriou¹, J. R. Scalea², A. Haririan³, R. Ugarte³, S. Niederhaus², J. Bromberg²
¹Pathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ²Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ³Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Approximately 1/3 of pancreas transplant fail to gain glycemic control in the first days/weeks posttransplantation, requiring exogenous insulin administration. Delayed endocrine pancreas graft function…