2022 American Transplant Congress
Physician Preferences When Selecting Candidates for Marginal Quality Kidney Offers: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
*Purpose: This study assesses the tradeoffs that physicians make when accepting marginal-quality kidneys, and the extent to which recipient-specific factors influence the acceptability of these…2022 American Transplant Congress
Humoral Response After a Third Dose of Sars-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine in Transplant Recipients
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Prior studies demonstrated an increased immune response post-3rd COVID-19 vaccine dose when given 1-month post-2nd dose in solid organ transplant recipients (SOT). This study…2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Emptive Rituximab to Prevent Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients with EBV DNAemia: A Case Series from the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium (PNRC)
*Purpose: The use of Rituximab (RTX) to prevent PTLD in patients with EBV DNAemia is an established strategy in hematopoietic stem cell transplants, but with…2022 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Prescribing Gabapentinoids, Co-Prescribed with Opioids or Benzodiazepines Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Gabapentinoid are commonly used to manage neuropathic pain in recipients with kidney transplantation (KT), with increasing concerns of co-prescribing with opioids and benzodiazepines leading…2022 American Transplant Congress
Impaired Humoral Response to Second Dose of BNT162b2 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Kidney Transplant Recipients in Japan: Prospective Observational Study
1Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, 2Sapporo Hokuyu Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a major impact on solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, with mortality rate up to 22%. The…2022 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of Living Donor Kidney Transplant and Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant: A Retrospective Cohort Study at National Kidney and Transplant Institute
*Purpose: To compare the graft and patient survival of living and deceased donor kidney transplant and identify the factors that affect graft survival.*Methods: Retrospective cohort…2022 American Transplant Congress
Prognostic Factors for Mortality of COVID-19 Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients in Thailand: A Nationwide Study
*Purpose: To investigate the mortality risk factors of COVID-19 infection among kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) in Thailand due to data scarcity in Asian populations.*Methods: We…2022 American Transplant Congress
Cell-Free DNA Concentration in Hypothermic Machine Perfusate is a Potential Rapid Marker for Kidney Graft Quality
1University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2University of Oklahoma Medical College, Oklahoma City, OK
*Purpose: The successful use of hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) as a clinical modality for graft preservation prior to kidney transplantation (KTx) has generated a demand…2022 American Transplant Congress
The Role of the Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block in Robotic Donor Nephrectomies
*Purpose: In recent years, there has been growing interest in the transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block for a variety of abdominal surgeries. Post-operative pain following…2022 American Transplant Congress
Utilisation and Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Transplants from Deceased Donors with Albuminuria in the UK: A Cohort Study
*Purpose: Urinalysis is a standard component of the assessment of potential deceased kidney donors in the UK. The value of albuminuria as a biomarker for…
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