2020 American Transplant Congress
Suspected Vape Use in Lung Donor
*Purpose: E-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) is a recently described disease entity prominently reported throughout many sources. Thus far, diagnosis is primarily…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys: An Update
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, the discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on…2020 American Transplant Congress
Technology Access, Use, and Intent among Kidney Transplant Candidates Vulnerable to Health Disparities
*Purpose: Advances in eHealth have created opportunities to reach vulnerable populations, however, eHealth strategies could paradoxically increase health disparities if vulnerable individuals lack technology access…2020 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Utilization via Accelerating the Placement of Hard-to-Place Kidneys
*Purpose: Increasing the number of transplants by increasing utilization is a key goal of the OPTN, with a particular focus on the use of marginal…2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Port Robot Assisted Kidney Transplantation
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute CCF, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Innovative methods are needed to further optimize safe outcomes in kidney transplantation (KT), therefore as an alternative surgical approach we present a single case…2019 American Transplant Congress
Hard-to-Place Kidney Offers: Through the Lens of the United Network for Organ Sharing Organ Center
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: In 2016, the rate of deceased donor kidney discard continued to increase to 20%. It is well documented that multiple factors contribute to lower…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Of Dosing Weight Selection On Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin Induction Immunosuppression In High-risk, Obese Renal Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: There are limited data regarding the optimal weight-based dosing strategy for rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) induction in renal transplantation. At our center, rATG is…2019 American Transplant Congress
More Advanced Heart Failure Prior To Transplant May Influence The Cytomegalovirus Specific T Cell Response In Cytomegalovirus Positive Recipients.
Bellvitge Universitary Hospital, L' Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
*Purpose: Current assessment of risk of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in CMV+ heart transplant (HT) recipients is poor. A diminished CMV-specific T cell response against 2…2019 American Transplant Congress
Association of Induction Immunosuppression Agents with Incidence of Cytomegalovirus Infection Following Kidney Transplantation
Medicine- Nephrology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common opportunistic infection following renal transplantation and can lead to significant morbidity. Inconsistency in adjusting for donor/recipient pre transplant CMV serostatus and in Alemtuzumab dosing probably contributed to…2019 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Trends in Drug Intoxicated Deceased Donor Recovery and Utilization
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The impact of the current opioid epidemic has been felt throughout the nation, and has seen significant geographic variation in the impact on decease…
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