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Articles tagged "Infection"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Ready for Prime Time: Intentional Allocation of Hepatitis C Positive Livers into Hepatitis C Negative Recipients

    P. N. Martins1, B. Movahedi1, D. Devuni2, P. Mahboub1, A. Bozorgzadeh1

    1Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Massachusets, Worcester, MA, 2Medicine, Division of Hepatology, University of Massachusets, Worcester, MA

    *Purpose: The current discrepancy between supply and demand of liver grafts has dramatically increased the waiting time and mortality on the waiting list. The recent…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Letermovir For The Treatment And Secondary Prophylaxis Of Drug Resistant CMV In Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    M. R. Pereira1, J. G. Aaron1, C. J. Kubin2

    1Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2Medicine - Infectious Diseases, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Although only approved for primary prophylaxis of CMV among allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients, there is great interest in the use of letermovir (LET)…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients after Conversion from Tacrolimus to Belatacept-Based Regimens

    H. Underwood, N. Lange, J. Hedvat, C. Brennan, D. Tsapepas, K. King, S. Husain, D. Salerno, S. Patel, S. Mohan, R. Crew

    Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Immunosuppressive strategies for belatacept are variable and associated outcomes have not been well described. We examined outcomes among kidney transplant (KT) recipients converted from…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of a Short Duration, Narrow Spectrum Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis Regimen on Multi-Drug Resistant Surgical Site Infections in Adult Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

    M. John1, K. Maguigan1, D. Schain2, E. Thomas3, P. Efron4, J. Nelson5

    1Pharmacy, UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville, FL, 2Infectious Diseases, UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville, FL, 3Transplant Surgery, University Health System, San Antonio, TX, 4Surgery, UF Health Shands Hospital, Gainesville, FL, 5Pharmacy, University Health System, San Antonio, TX

    *Purpose: There is a paucity of data defining the optimal agent and timing of peri-operative antimicrobial prophylaxis in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The purpose of…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    A Cluster of Late Onset of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia (PJP) in Renal Transplant Patients: First Cluster Report from Saudi Arabia

    Y. Aljishi, M. AlBugumi, A. Abadi, A. AlJanobi, M. Al Lawiam, N. Alzawad, M. Al Sardi, Z. AlMaa, H. Al-Ramadan, J. Kabanja, N. Rayyan, k. Beleed-Akkari

    King Fahad specialist hospital - Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

    *Purpose: Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) is a serious opportunistic infection that can be associated with severe pulmonary involvement in transplant population. Post-transplant protocol at our…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Severe Diarrhea on Kidney Transplant Outcomes

    J. Kim, J. Ha, Y. Kim, S. Han

    Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

    *Purpose: In addition to immunological complications, non-immunological events should be considered following kidney transplantation. Among them, diarrhea is the most common gastrointestinal complication, but its…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Introduction of Universal Hepatitis E RNA Screening in Deceased Organ Donors – The UK Experience

    I. Ushiro-Lumb1, K. Tettmar1, I. Johannessen2, K. Simpson2, I. Hart3, J. Timms4, A. Hale5, S. Ijaz6, R. Tedder6, J. Forsythe1

    1NHS Blood and Transplant, London, United Kingdom, 2Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 4University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom, 5Public Health England, Leeds, United Kingdom, 6Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: We aim to describe the strategy and initial results of post-donation, universal screening of deceased organ donors in the UK. HEV RNA is tested…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Adjuvant Immunotherapeutic Approach For Liver Transplant Recipients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Donor Liver Derived Natural Killer Cells

    M. Ohira1, R. Hotta1, Y. Imaoka1, K. Sato1, Y. Tanaka1, A. G. Tzakis2, S. Nishida3, H. Ohdan1

    1Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, 2Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, 3New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY

    *Purpose: Although liver transplantation (LT) is a preferred treatment for selected patients with Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), HCC-recurrence would be a still important medical problem. Most…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    HOPE in Action: A Multicenter Prospective Study of HIV to HIV Liver Transplantation

    C. Durand1, S. Florman2, M. Bowring3, D. Brown1, B. Haydel2, J. Hamilton1, P. Stock4, J. Price5, T. Pruett6, V. Kirchner7, D. Wojciechowksi8, N. Turgeon9, C. Wolfe10, V. Stosor11, J. Charette11, A. Cameron3, S. Ottmann3, S. Huprikar12, D. Segev3

    1Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2Surgery, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 3Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 4Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 5Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 6Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 7Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 8Medicine, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA, 9Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 10Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, 11Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 12Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, NY

    *Purpose: HIV+ liver transplant (LT) candidates face higher mortality and lower access to transplant compared to HIV- counterparts. With the US HOPE Act, HIV+ donor…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Sirolimus (SRL) versus Everolimus (EVR) versus Mycophenolate (MPA) in Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction (r-ATG), Tacrolimus (TAC), and Prednisone

    C. Rosso Felipe, L. Viana, M. Pontello Cristelli, J. Toniato, K. Ficher, S. Poletto, H. Proença, R. de Marco, M. Gerbase-Lima, A. Brigido, J. Medina Pestana, H. Tedesco-Silva

    Hospital do Rim, Nephrology Division, EPM - UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

    *Purpose: TAC and MPA combination is considered the standard of care immunosuppressive regimen in the majority of transplant centers worldwide. Yet, given the lack of…
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