Articles tagged "Heart/lung transplantation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Changes to Adult Heart Allocation Improve Candidate Stratification
K. Bradbrook¹, K. Lindblad¹, R. R. Goff¹, R. Daly², S. Hall³
¹Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Historically, heart allocation has been driven by waitlist (WL) mortality rather than post-transplant survival. On 10/18/2018 the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) implemented…
2021 American Transplant Congress
BKV-Associated Urothelial Carcinoma in Patients After Renal and Extrarenal Carcinoma
A. Schwarz¹, J. Schmitz², J. Gottlieb³, C. Bara⁴, H. Haller¹, J. Braesen²
¹Nephrology Department, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ²Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ³Department of Pneumology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ⁴Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
*Purpose: Polyomavirus BK (BKV) reactivation or transmission is a wellknown problem in renal transplant (TX) patients with BKV nephropathy and interstitial cystitis. The role of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Mortality, Risk Factors, and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection in Solid Organ Transplants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
S. Yin, T. Song, Q. Zhong, T. Lin
Urology Institute and Organ Transplantation Center, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Outcomes for solid organ transplants (SOT) with COVID-19 have not been summarized, and prognostic factors for COVID-19 in SOT patients are not well established…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Hepatitis E Diagnosis and Management After Liver, Kidney, or Heart Transplant: A Single Center Experience
M. Carter¹, M. Fitzmaurice², S. Yeddula², A. Singh², S. Nagai², S. Jafri²
¹Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, ²Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Transplant-related Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a rarely recognized entity with significant clinical importance given potential for chronic hepatitis post-transplant. We evaluated HEV…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Quilty Lesions are Associated with a Tolerance Profile in Heart Allografts Biopsies
J. Torrealba, S. Moore, S. Sathirareuangchai, L. De Las Casas, Q. Cai
Pathology, UTSW Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Previously, in 42 cardiac allograft biopsies, we demonstrated that the presence of Foxp3+ innate and TGF- β + adaptive regulatory lymphocytes in Quilty lesions…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Scoping Review
A. G. Anderson, M. Eubank, K. Murray
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
*Purpose: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are an emerging treatment for numerous advanced diseases, but their safety and efficacy in immunosuppressed transplant patients is not known.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Acute Kidney Injury Requiring Dialysis in Heart Transplant Recipients is a Risk Factor for Graft Failure and Overall Mortality
M. A. Merzkani, H. Murad, A. Pottebaum, A. Java, A. Malone, J. Schilling, A. Itoh, R. Delos Santos, T. Alhamad
Transplant, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
*Purpose: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a frequent complication of heart transplantation. However, with recent allocation changes, we have increasingly complex patients with a higher…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Nurse and Nurse Practitioner-lead Monoclonal Antibody Initiative for Solid Organ Transplant (sot) Recipients with Covid-19
W. Cochran¹, R. Avery², D. Brennan², N. Lawrence², A. Brown², S. Sullivan², B. Adams², M. McCarthy², S. Ellis², F. Naqvi², E. Kraus², N. Alachkar², S. Alasfar², F. Al Ammary², J. Horn², L. Hartman², L. Fessler², S. Purekal², Z. Siddiqui², D. Carter², J. Ficke², M. Kantsiper², L. Boyer², I. Gupta², A. Gurakar², D. Ostrander², J. Langlee², S. Shoham², K. Marr², P. Shah²
¹Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Monoclonal antibody (mAB) infusion (bamlanivimab or casirivimab/imdevimab) for symptomatic, non-hypoxemic, high-risk outpatients with COVID-19 infection, is an available early intervention for COVID-19+ SOT recipients.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Outcome of Heart-Kidney Transplantation in the Current Heart Allocation System in the United States
S. Rao¹, A. Doyle¹, D. Brennan², S. Constantinescu³
¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ²Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, ³Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: In the United States, heart allograft allocation is a primary determinant for heart-kidney transplantation (HKT). We analyzed the OPTN dataset and compared the outcomes…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Notch2 in Antibody-mediated Alloimmune Response
R. Benedetti Gassen¹, N. Murakami², T. J Borges¹, A. Al Jurdi¹, A. Alessandrini¹, L. V Riella¹
¹Center of Transplantation Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Antibody mediated rejection is the leading cause of chronic allograft rejection. Developing a novel therapeutic target to inhibit chronic rejection is an urgent need…