Articles tagged "High-risk"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Identifying the Proverbial “Needle in the Arm” with Natural Language Processing
G. R. Vece, J. Foutz, A. Placona
Department of Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Donors with a history of IVDU are associated with increased disease transmission risk; However, OPTN forms only request broad historical details relating to donor…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Utility Of SIPAT Scoring System In Predicting Risk Of Recidivism In Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease.
A. Ur Rahman¹, H. Singh¹, M. Abusaif¹, J. Shaw², O. Knighton², L. Clark², T. Santos², S. Ebaid², D. Reino², J. Vanatta², A. Tzakis², K. Alkhalloufi², X. Zervos²
¹Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, ²Transplant Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL
*Purpose: The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) score is a comprehensive tool that was developed to standardize pretransplant psychosocial evaluations and has been…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of U.S. Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys
Y. Qazi¹, D. Bahl², N. Mehta³, Z. Haddad⁴, M. Smogorzewski⁴
¹USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²UC Davis, Sacramento, CA, ³UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ⁴Keck Medical Center At USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on all…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Cholecystitis in High-Acuity Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation: A Five-Year Analysis of Incidence, Causes and Impact
D. S. Graham, T. Ito, M. M. Lu, J. DiNorcia, V. G. Agopian, H. Yersiz, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, F. M. Kaldas
Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: While the incidence of gallbladder pathology is well described in the general population, there is almost no data on cholecystitis in liver transplant candidates…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (rATG) Induction in Heart Transplant Recipients at High Risk for Rejection
B. Kitto¹, B. Baetz¹, S. Krim², H. Patel², S. Mandras², S. Desai², C. Eiswirth², H. Ventura², S. Thai¹
¹Pharmacy, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, ²Heart Transplant, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of rATG induction in heart transplant recipients at high risk for rejection.*Methods: This was a single-center, retrospective study…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Bortezomib Based Induction Therapy Decreases Delayed Graft Function in High Risk Kidney Transplantation
K. Mahendran¹, N. Koizumi², J. K. Melancon¹
¹Transplant Institute, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, ²Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA
*Purpose: Over 100,000 candidates await a kidney transplant on the national United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waitlist. Among these candidates, one-third have pre-formed antibodies…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Organ Procurement Organization Surgeon on Utilization of High KDPI Kidneys
C. S. Hwang¹, J. Reese², T. Anthony², P. Vagefi¹, B. Tanriover³, V. Ariyamuthu³, S. Levea³, M. MacConmara¹
¹Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²Southwest Transplant Alliance, Dallas, TX, ³Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: In 2014, TXSB organ procurement organization (OPO) employed a full-time donor surgeon. We previously demonstrated that presence of a donor surgeon had a beneficial…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Hard-to-Place Kidney Offers: Through the Lens of the United Network for Organ Sharing Organ Center
S. M. Noreen, R. S. Brown, M. Lane, B. Wolford, C. A. Humphries
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
A. C. Cordry¹, K. Trobaugh¹, L. Ramsey², A. L. Castellanos³, H. Fattah³, T. Rendulic¹
¹Pharmacy, University of Kentucky HealthCare, Lexington, KY, ²University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, KY, ³Nephrology, University of Kentucky HealthCare, Lexington, KY
*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.
U. López Cardoza, E. García, C. Díez, J. Roca, N. Sabé, N. Manito, I. Tatjer, A. Cequier, O. Bestard, J. González
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…

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