Articles tagged "Heart transplant patients"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Recruitment in the Pediatric Heart Transplant TEAMMATE Trial: Observed vs. Expected
K. P. Daly, L. A. Sleeper, L. J. Addonizio, J. C. Alejos, S. Auerbach, M. J. Bock, A. Butto, W. F. Carlo, C. Castleberry, W. J. Dreyer, B. Feingold, J. M. Lamour, E. L. Albers, S. A. Hollander, G. L. Klein, A. Lal, E. Pahl, D. Peng, A. R. Punnoose, J. W. Rossano, T. D. Ryan, J. Su, D. L. Sutcliffe, S. Zangwill, C. S. Almond
TEAMMATE Trial Investigators, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The TEAMMATE (Tacrolimus/Everolimus vs. Tacrolimus/MMF in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients using the MATE Score) Trial is the first multicenter effort to address key scientific…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Age Mismatch between Donor and Recipient in Heart Transplant and its Effect on Mortality
A. Kumar¹, L. Bonell², M. Prikis¹
¹Internal Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, ²Division of General Internal Medicine Research, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
*Purpose: Increasing donor to recipient age difference has been shown to reduce survival in pediatric heart transplant population. However, the effect of age mismatch in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Variations in Recipient and Donor Clinical Characteristics between Heart Transplant Centers
W. T. McKinney¹, M. J. Bruin², S. Chu², D. Schladt³, J. Synder³, C. M. Martin⁴, T. Alexy⁴, B. L. Kasiske⁵, A. K. Israni¹
¹Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Cardiology Division, University of Minnesota Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: When a patient has discretion over which heart transplant program will evaluate them for the waitlist, prior knowledge of program acceptance practices can enable…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Resilience in Heart Transplant Candidates
Y. T. Bui¹, D. S. Yip², B. W. Hardaway³, S. M. Dunlay⁴, S. Jowsey-Gregoire⁵, R. Benzo⁶, R. C. Daly⁷, M. A. Hathcock⁸, K. Thompson⁹, C. C. Kennedy¹⁰
¹Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁸Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁹Pulmonary Clinical Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Resilience is the capacity to adapt to or recover from adverse experiences. Our objective was to measure resilience in waitlisted, adult heart transplant candidates…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Peri-Operative Extracorporeal Photopheresis in High Risk Patients after Heart Transplantation
A. Zuckermann¹, J. Gökler¹, N. Worel², P. Angleitner¹, E. Ceran¹, E. Ceran¹, N. Neuber¹, P. Kaiser¹, G. Laufer¹, A. Aliabadi-Zuckermann¹
¹Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Department of Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*Purpose: Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is an established therapy for treatment of heart transplant rejection and is also applied for rejection prevention in the perioperative setting…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir on Weight-Adjusted Tacrolimus Trough/Dose Ratios in Heart and Kidney Recipients
D. Nnani¹, A. Campbell¹, M. Ajaimy², S. R. Patel³, O. Saeed³, D. J. Goldstein⁴, J. Graham⁵, U. P. Jorde³
¹Pharmacy, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ²Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ³Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ⁴Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ⁵Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
*Purpose: An innovative strategy to meet the demands of patients requiring heart or kidney transplantation is the acceptance of hepatitis C viremic organs. Direct acting…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation Of Typical Renal Transplant Infections In Simultaneous Heart-kidney Transplant Recipients
E. J. Henricksen¹, U. Wang¹, R. Lee¹, R. Imai¹, A. Puing², A. Couture², A. Multani³, Y. Moayedi⁴, C. Lenihan⁵, K. K. Khush⁶, J. J. Teuteberg⁵
¹Pharmacy, Stanford Healthcare, Stanford, CA, ²Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³Infectious Diseases, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁶Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Simultaneous heart-kidney transplant (SHKT) is an increasingly utilized treatment for patients with end stage heart failure and advanced kidney disease. Data regarding infectious complications…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Developing a Patient Specific Search of Heart Transplant Programs: Feedback from Heart Transplant Candidates and Recipients
W. T. McKinney¹, M. J. Bruin², C. R. Schaffhausen¹, S. Chu², J. Synder³, C. M. Martin⁴, T. Alexy⁴, B. L. Kasiske⁵, A. K. Israni¹
¹Nephrology, Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ²College of Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Cardiology Division, University of Minnesota Department of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Patients seeking a heart transplant must contemplate numerous factors when making decisions regarding their care. Waitlist acceptance criteria, donor acceptance practices and outcomes often…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk of Invasive Fungal Infection after Heart Transplantation
Z. A. Yetmar¹, B. Lahr², E. Beam³
¹Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Invasive fungal infection (IFI) after heart transplantation is a feared complication associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Risk factors for invasive fungal infection after…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Solid Organ Transplantation Using Hepatitis C Virus Positive Donor Organs for Hepatitis C Virus Negative Recipients
T. Schiff, R. Bodin, I. Lee, K. Okumura, D. C. Wolf, A. Dhand, A. L. Gass, D. Spielvogel, G. Veillette, S. Nishida, D. Glicklich, K. Wolfe, T. Diflo, H. Sogawa
New York Medical College/ Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
*Purpose: To determine the effects of transplanting an HCV-positive solid organ to an uninfected patient who is on the transplant waiting list and might otherwise…