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Articles tagged "Heart"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Macrophage Depletion from CMV-Latently Infected Hearts Abrogates CMV-Accelerated Chronic Rejection.

    J. Burg,1 T. Andoh,2 N. Haese,2 I. Jones,2 S. Orloff,1 D. Streblow.2

    1Department of Surgery, OHSU, Portland, OR; 2VGTI, OHSU, Hillsboro, OR

    Purpose: Latent donor CMV infection has been shown to accelerate chronic rejection (CR) in a heterotopic rat heart transplant model. CMV latency is associated with…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    To Accept or Not Accept, That Is the Question: Donor Heart Selection Process and Outcome of Discarded Organs Transplanted in Another Center.

    A. Aliabadi-Zuckermann,1 J. Goekler,1 A. Kaider,2 J. Riebandt,1 R. Moayedifar,1 E. Osorio,1 T. Haberl,1 G. Laufer,1 J. Smits,3 A. Zuckermann.1

    1Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 3Eurotransplant Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands

    Purpose: The decision making process to accept a donor heart is very complicated, subjective and less associated with evidence based decisions. In this analysis we…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Statins in Liver Transplant Recipients: Rates of Use, Mortality and Rejection.

    R. Selim,1 A. Abdulhamid,1 A. Shyamraj,2 A. Watson,2 J. Tang,2 S.-M. Jafri.2

    1Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; 2Gastroenterology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

    Introduction:Liver transplant recipients are prone to developing metabolic syndrome following transplant, likely secondary to immunosuppressant use. Among those with metabolic syndrome, the rate of cardiovascular…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Minimal Effect of Broader Heart Sharing on Regional Outcomes.

    A. Bitar,1 M. Skeans,2 R. Davies,3 M. Farr,4 A. Kao,5 L. Robbins-Callahan,6 J. Rogers,7 S. Silvestry,8 M. Colvin.1,2

    1U of MI, Ann Arbor, MI; 2SRTR, Mpls, MN; 3Nemours/AIDHC, Wilmington, DE; 4Columbia U, NY, NY; 5Mid-America Heart Inst, KC, MO; 6UNOS, Richmond, VA; 7Duke U, Durham, NC; 8FL Hosp Transplant Inst, Orlando, FL

    The OPTN/UNOS Heart Subcommittee proposed a revision to policy 6 (Allocation of Hearts and Heart-Lungs) to better address heart transplant candidate medical urgency. They developed…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Malignancy in Patients Undergoing Simultaneous Heart-Liver and Heart-Kidney Transplant.

    A. Chin, A. Habertheuer, A. Chou, M. Acker, M. Williams, P. Atluri, C. Bermudez, P. Vallabhajosyula.

    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    Purpose: While evidence suggests that patients undergoing simultaneous heart-liver and heart-kidney transplant may have improved immunoprotection from allograft rejection versus patients undergoing heart transplant only,…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Thoracic Simulated Allocation Modeling (TSAM) of Broader Sharing.

    M. Colvin,1 M. Skeans,1 L. Robbins Callahan,2 L. Edwards,2 J. Zeglin,1 S. Silvestry,3 R. Davies,4 M. Farr,5 A. Israni,1 J. Rogers.6

    1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; 2UNOS, Richmond, VA; 3Florida Hospital Transplant Institute, Orlando, FL; 4Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE; 5Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; 6Duke University, Durham, NC.

    Heart allocation policy (OPTN policy 6) is in development. The Heart Subcommittee of the OPTN Thoracic Committee developed a 6-tiered medical urgency algorithm, then investigated…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Cardiovascular Prognosis and Adverse Cardiac Events After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.

    L. Potena, V. Manfredini, P. Prestinenzi, R. Alabrese, V. Bertuzzo, L. Borgese, M. Masetti, C. Morelli, F. Grigioni, A. Pinna.

    University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

    Cardiovascular (CV) disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among transplant candidate and recipients of noncardiac organs. Aiming to analyze the impact of…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Airway Inflammation and Symptoms in Children Following Liver and Heart Transplantation.

    A. Redmann,1 J. Bucuvalas,2 R. Wood,3 C. Chin,4 C. Hart.1

    1Otolaryngology, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; 2Pediatric Liver Care Center, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; 3Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; 4Heart Institute, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinati, OH.

    Objectives: To describe the upper airway endoscopic findings of patients with stridor, stertor or sleep-disordered breathing after liver transplantation (LT) or heart transplantation (HT).Methods: Retrospective…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Pediatric Heart Transplantation Across a Positive Cross-Match Is Associated with High Rates of AMR but No Difference in Short Term Graft Loss, Dysfunction and Death (CTOTC-04 study).

    S. Webber,1 L. Addonizio,2 E. Blume,3 A. Dipchand,4 R. Shaddy,5 B. Feingold,6 C. Canter,7 D. Hsu,8 W. Mahle,9 A. Zeevi,6 K. Much,10 D. Ikle,10 H. Diop,11 J. Odim, MD, PhD, for CTOTC-04 Investigators.11

    1Vanderbilt, Nashville; 2Columbia Univ., NYC; 3Boston Children's, Boston; 4Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada; 5CHOP, Philadelphia; 6CHP of UPMC, Pittsburgh; 7Washington Univ., St. Louis; 8Children's Hospital, Montefiore, NYC; 9CHOA, Atlanta; 10Rho, Chapel Hill; 11NIAID/NIH, Bethesda.

    Sensitization is common in pediatric heart transplant (HT) candidates. Waitlist mortality is high if a prospective -ve CDC-crossmatch (XM) is required, but HT across a…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Development and Validation of a Molecular Microscope Diagnostic System (MMDx) for Heart Transplant Biopsies.

    P. Halloran,1 D. Kim,1 A. Loupy,2 J.-P. Duong Van-Huyen,2 P. Bruneval,3 L. Potena,4 O. Leone,4 J. Reeve.1

    1University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2Necker Hospital, Paris, France; 3Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France; 4Bologna University, Bologna, Italy.

    The diagnosis of heart transplant rejection by histology in endomyocardial biopsies (EMB) is challenging. A molecular system (MMDx) has been developed to assess both T…
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