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Articles tagged "Infection"

  • 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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Infectious Complications in 71 Heart Transplant Recipients at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thailand

    N. Sangpornsuk1, J. Wanichwatphibun2, A. Ariyachaipanich3, P. Ongcharit4, K. Jutivorakool5, J. Vanichanan5

    1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 3Excellent Center for Organ Transplantation, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, 4Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, 5Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand

    *Purpose: Infections have been known as one of the major complication associated with morbidity and mortality especially in the first year following orthotropic heart transplantation…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    The Association Of Frailty With Risk Of Cytomegalovirus And BK Infection

    J. Norman1, A. Gupta2, A. Naik3, D. Cibrik2, S. Norman3

    1Internal Medicine, Univ of Michigan Medical Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 3Internal Medicine/Nephrology, Univ of Michigan Medical Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI

    *Purpose: Opportunistic infections are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality post-kidney transplant (KT). Recently, medical frailty has been recognized to increase the risk of death…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    The Utility of Donor and Recipient BK Virus Antibody Testing Prior to Renal Transplantation in Risk Assessment for Developing BK Viremia

    N. Donmez, S. I. Al-Akash

    Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX

    *Purpose: The correlation between donor (DON) and recipient (REC) BKV antibody (AB) titers and BK viremia in renal transplant (RTx) has not been well-studied in…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Thymoglobulin Efficacy: The Role of Dosing on Viral Infection and Rejection in Pancreas Transplantation

    H. Sarumi, B. Johnson, S. Jackson, S. Hogan, J. Fisher, S. Riad, R. Kandaswamy, T. Pruett

    Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: While T-cell depletion therapy is standard practice for induction in pancreas transplantation, little data exists to help determine dosing and its impact on efficacy…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Influenza Virus Antibody Response in Naturally Infected and Vaccinated Transplant Recipients by Protein Microarray

    C. Hirzel, A. Chruscinski, V. H. Ferreira, A. G. L'Huillier, A. Humar, D. Kumar

    University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    *Purpose: Influenza A virus (IAV) infection is known to be an important cause of morbidity in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. The objective of our…
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