Articles tagged "Graft function"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Outcomes from a Mobile Health, Pharmacist-Led Intervention: 12-Month Results of the Transafe Rx Randomized Controlled Trial
D. Taber, J. Hirsch, Z. Su, J. McGillicuddy, A. Posadas, J. Fleming
Med Univ of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Medication errors and non-adherence are predominant causes of poor graft outcomes in kidney transplant (KTX) recipients. The primary aim of the TRANSAFE Rx RCT…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Cryptococcosis In Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Retrospective Case-Control Study
L. Tardieu¹, O. Lortholary², F. Lanternier², A. Scemla³, C. Rafat¹
¹Urgences Néphrologiques et Transplantation Rénale, Hôpital Tenon, APHP, Paris, France, ²Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales – Centre d’Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Hôpital Necker, APHP, Paris, France, ³Service de Transplantation Rénale, Hôpital Necker, APHP, Paris, France
*Purpose: Cryptococcosis is the third most common invasive fungal infection in organ transplant recipients.The clinical approach and prognosis has been previously investigated in the setting…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Combined Heart-Liver Transplantation Has Excellent Long-Term Outcomes
J. A. Steadman¹, J. M. Stulak¹, A. L. Clavell², S. S. Kushwaha², B. S. Edwards², N. L. Pereira², B. A. Boilson², A. Behfar², R. J. Rodeheffer², J. A. Dearani¹, T. Taner³, R. C. Daly¹
¹Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Transplantation Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Combined heart-liver transplants (CHLTx) have been shown to have good short-term outcomes in those with end-stage heart and liver disease: we conducted a comprehensive…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Need for Pre-Transplant Midodrine Does Not Negatively Impact Outcomes after Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplant
P. Barman¹, L. King², C. Berg², A. Barbas², L. McElroy², A. Parish², D. Niedzwiecki², Y. Patel²
¹University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, ²Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Patients with cirrhosis often develop chronic hypotension, which contributes to kidney dysfunction. Midodrine can improve hemodynamics and renal perfusion in these hypotensive patients. There…
2020 American Transplant Congress
DCD vs DBD Liver Transplantation: Equivalent Charges and Similar Survival- An Effective Expansion of the Donor Pool
N. Singh, K. Helfrich, M. Alebrahim, C. Akateh, K. Mumtaz, A. Logan, A. Schenk, S. Black, E. Elkhammas, K. Washburn, A. El-Hinnawi
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: The shortage of allografts available for liver transplantation (LT) has prompted the need for expansion of donor pool to include donation after circulatory death…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Benefits of Normothermia Regional Perfusion (NRP), Hypothermic Machine Perfusion (HMP) and Short Cold Ischemia Time (CIT) for Kidney Transplants with Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death (cDCD)
E. Savoye¹, C. Legeai¹, J. Branchereau², S. Gay³, S. Drouin⁴, F. Gaudez⁵, B. Veber⁶, J. Venhard⁷, G. Cheisson⁸, T. Kerforne⁹, O. Bastien¹, C. Antoine¹
¹Agence de la Biomedecine, La Plaine Saint Denis, France, ²CHU Nantes, Nantes, France, ³CH Annecy, Annecy, France, ⁴CHU Pitié Salpetriere, Paris, France, ⁵CHU Saint Louis, Paris, France, ⁶CHU Rouen, Rouen, France, ⁷CHU Tours, Tours, France, ⁸CHU Kremlin-Bicetre, Kremlin-Bicetre, France, ⁹CHU Poitiers, Poitiers, France
*Purpose: cDCD are considered as extended criteria donors with poorer kidney transplant outcomes and high delayed graft function (DGF) rate. We built a French national…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Pre-Transplant Resuscitation Factors Influencing Immediate Graft Function after Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
S. Park
General Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: The management of a deceased donor in the intensive care unit before organ transplantation is important for the outcome of the recipient. Herein, we…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effects of Alpha-1 Proteinase Replacement Continuation Post-Lung Transplantation in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: A Single Center Case Series
M. Bremer, A. Feist, M. Mariski, G. Yung, T. Floreth, E. Schonhoft, G. Schooler, E. Golts, K. Afshar
Lung Transplant, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
*Purpose: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) accounts for approximately 6% of all lung transplants (LTx) performed annually. The benefit of replacement with alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor (A1-PI)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Delayed Kidney Graft Function (DGF) after Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplantation (SLKT) on Patient Outcomes: Results from the US Multicenter SLKT Consortium
P. Sharma¹, Z. Sui¹, M. Zhang¹, J. Magee¹, P. Barman², K. Walters³, A. Schluger⁴, R. Wong⁵, G. Cullaro⁶, J. Sinha⁷, J. Jo⁷, Y. Patel⁸, S. Biggins⁹, J. Lai⁵, L. VanWangner⁷, E. Verna⁶
¹Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, ²UCSD, San Diego, CA, ³UCLA, LA, CA, ⁴Westchester Medical Center, Westchester, NY, ⁵UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁶Columbia, New York, NY, ⁷Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ⁸Duke, Durham, NC, ⁹University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Delayed kidney graft function (DGF) after SLKT transplant may be associated with increased risk of kidney graft loss, morbidity and mortality. We examined the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Donor Noninvasive Liver Fibrotic Score on Graft Injury in Liver Transplantation
S. M. Younan, T. Ito, H. Hirao, A. Aziz, A. E. Murray, J. DiNorcia III, V. G. Agopian, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, F. M. Kaldas
The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The increasing prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome, has led to a corresponding increase in steatotic livers being utilized in liver transplantation (LT). These…