Articles tagged "Infection"

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…
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…