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Articles tagged "Heart transplant patients"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes in Hepatitis C (HCV) Viremic Grafts to HCV Negative Recipients in Heart Transplantation: A Multicenter Study of Differing Treatment Strategies

    K. Ryland1, B. Aqel2, D. Steidley2, P. Patel1, S. Pungpapong3

    1Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 2Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, 3Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL

    *Purpose: Using HCV viremic grafts for heart transplantation (HT) improves donor supply and shortens wait times. However, treatment strategies are variable post-transplant. This study aims…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Ventricular Modeling Following Bariatric Surgery Decreases Need for Heart Transplantation

    R. Choudhury1, A. Rouhi2, G. Hoeltzel3, Y. Bababekov1, A. Suarez-Pierre4, A. Yule1, N. Vigneshwar4, N. Williams5, K. Dumon2, T. Nydam1

    1Transplantation Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, 2General Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3General Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 4Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, 5General Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Aurora, CO

    *Purpose: For obese patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), aggressive weight loss has been associated with ventricular remodeling. Many have suggested offering bariatric surgery for…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Using Wearable Technology to Assess Activity in Children After Heart Transplant

    J. B. Edelson1, D. Gandla2, S. M. Paridon1, J. W. Rossano1, M. J. O'Connor1, M. Lane-Fall2, B. Keating2

    1Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Evaluating activity tolerance following heart transplant (HT) provides an objective marker of functional status, can guide cardiac rehabilitation, identifies those patients with increased cardiovascular…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Heart-Kidney Transplantation Appears to Be Acceptable for Patients Greater Than 65 Years of Age

    T. Singer-Englar, M. Kittleson, J. Patel, N. Patel, S. Kim, D. Chang, E. Kransdorf, L. Czer, J. A. Kobashigawa

    Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Heart-kidney transplantation (HKTx) has been found to improve survival in patients with advanced kidney disease who undergo heart transplantation. It is not known whether…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Use of Pronase to Identify HLA Crossmatch Antibody Interference

    N. Hendren1, C. Lacelle1, S. Carter1, J. L. Grodin1, E. Hardin2, M. Farr3, S. Garg1

    1UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, 2University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 3University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: Solid organ transplant centers should maintain vigilance that antibody therapies can impact HLA crossmatch results.*Methods: N/A*Results: A 46-year-old man with Mayo stage IV cardiac…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Phenytoin To Expedite Sirolimus & Tacrolimus Elimination: A Case Report

    A. Lemke, B. A. Boilson, R. Razonable, S. A. Bernard

    Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    *Purpose: Sirolimus (SIR), a mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor (mTORi), may be used with or without a calcineurin inhibitor after heart transplant (HT). The anti-proliferative…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Trajectory of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA (dd-cfDNA) Complements the Baseline Measurements in Heart Transplant Surveillance for Rejection

    P. Shah1, R. Cheng2, H. Eisen3, B. D. Lowes4, L. Lourenco Jenkins5, Y. Fu5, K. Qu5, J. Teuteberg6, E. DePasquale7

    1Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, 2University of Washington Heart Institute, Seattle, WA, 3Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, 4University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 5CareDx, Brisbane, CA, 6Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 7University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Changes in dd-cfDNA levels over time may identify patients with evolving alloimmune injury, providing complementary information to the donor fraction. We explored the dd-cfDNA…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Cytomegalovirus Infection on mRNA Expression Utilizing the Molecular Microscope in Heart Transplant Recipients

    S. S. Patlolla, J. Van Zyl, K. Castro, S. Mckean, R. Patel, S. Carey, A. Alam, S. Hall

    Cardiology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: Little is known about the effect of CMV infection on transplant messenger RNA expression utilizing the molecular microscope (MMDx) in the absence of acute…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Donor and Recipient Characteristics on Early Post-Transplant Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA (dd-cfDNA) Scores

    A. Alam1, J. Zeng2, J. Teuteberg3, S. Hall1

    1Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 2CareDx, Brisbane, CA, 3Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    *Purpose: Dd-cfDNA (AlloSure, CareDx; Brisbane, CA) has been demonstrated to detect allograft injury after heart transplantation in a large and diverse patient cohort in the…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Transition Program for Young Adults with Solid Organ Transplant a Single Center Protocol

    H. Y. Lee

    Program for Pediatric Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, and Cardiac Transplantation, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

    *Purpose: The transition process for young adult solid organ transplant patient is an important clinical milestone in a transplant patient's life. Evidenced based research demonstrates…
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