2020 American Transplant Congress
Application of Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging for Non-Invasive Assessment of Chronic Allograft Injury
*Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and clinical application of diffusional kurtosis imaging (DKI) technique in non-invasive assessment for chronic allograft injury (CAI).*Methods: The local ethics…2020 American Transplant Congress
High PRA Increases Rejection but Does Not Worsen Renal Function in the First Year Post Kidney Transplant with Alemtuzumab Induction
Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Sensitization is an important immunologic risk factor considered in renal allograft allocation and influences immunosuppression. Unfortunately, there is a lack of consensus regarding the…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Influence of Donor Kidney to Recipient Body Weight Ratio on Long-Term Outcomes of Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation
Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: We often experience the incompatibility in size between the kidney graft and recipient in living-donor kidney transplantation. This study evaluated the effect of the…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Occult Graft Fibrosis on Clinical Outcomes in Human Liver Transplant Recipients
1UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
*Purpose: Although liver transplantation (LT) has become a standard therapy for end-stage liver disease, early allograft dysfunction (EAD) and graft rejection remain serious unsolved problems.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Extended Criteria Donor Livers: Identification of Protein Biomarkers Predictive of Graft Viability and Post-Transplant Complications
*Purpose: The Viability Testing and Transplantation of mArginal donor Livers Clinical Trial (VITTAL) demonstrated the capacity of Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) to increase the proportion…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Hybrid Data Envelopment Analysis-Artificial Neural Network (DEANN) Technique for Extrapolating the Evolution of Kidney Transplant Patients
*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
Safely Increasing the Number of Renal Transplants Performed in a Small Center Through the Use of Acute Kidney Injury Donors
*Purpose: New Mexico is medically underserved state with a significant end-stage renal disease population. This study aims to further demonstrate the safety of utilizing AKI…2020 American Transplant Congress
Allograft Loss and Patient Death among Kidney Transplant Recipients; Is Therapy Non-Adherence the Underlying Perpetrator?
Nephrology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: To ascertain causes of allograft dysfunction, loss and death in a cohort of kidney transplant patients*Methods: In this Retrospective cohort study, 943 patients who…2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor Intervention and Recipient Treatment with Recombinant Human C1 Inhibitor Prevents Delayed Graft Function in a Non-Human Primate Model of Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: There is currently no FDA-approved treatment to prevent delayed graft function (DGF) in kidney transplantation. We have shown that donor or recipient treatment with…2020 American Transplant Congress
Paired-Donor Kidney Exchange Has Comparable Early Graft Function to Directed Living Donor
Transplant Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Living kidney donation in the United States is associated with improved graft and patient survival. However, there is minimal data on graft function in…
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