2018 American Transplant Congress
How Evaluation for Living Kidney Donation Saved My Life
Purpose:In order to ensure eligibility for living kidney donation, donor candidates undergo a thorough medical evaluation. This evaluation process might reveal previously unknown medical conditions,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Liver and Combined Liver-Kidney Retransplantation
Department of Surgery/Transplantat, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, LA.
Many centers consider liver retransplantation controversial due to poor outcomes and high resource requirement. In the setting of renal failure and high MELD, many are…2018 American Transplant Congress
Increasing the Donor Pool for Highly Sensitized Patients with Allele Specific Antibodies: Optimizing the Virtual Crossmatch (vXM)
Background:Since implementation of the current Kidney Allocation System, highly sensitized patients with 98-100% cPRA (HSPs) are receiving ~10% of deceased donor kidneys compared to <2%…2018 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Patient Education to Improve the Inpatient Experience for Living Donors
Transplant Department, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: Although the number of living organ donors is small, their altruistic sacrifice requires a dedicated approach to meet their unique needs. Living donors (LD)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Re-Hospitalization after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation in Steroid Avoidance Protocols
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Data on re-hospitalization rates in steroid avoidance protocols is limited. We performed a single-center, retrospective cohort study of pediatric kidney transplant recipients between 2006 and…2018 American Transplant Congress
An Initial Experience with the Endowrist Robotic Endostapling Device for Renal Donor Nephrectomy
Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta.
Introduction:Robot assisted donor nephrectomy has been used an advancement to standard laparoscopic techniques. However, limitations in available instrumentation reduce the efficiency of the procedure especially…2018 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Center Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT) as an Enhancement to the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors
Purpose: The LDAT is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluations (PsychE). It assesses motivation, LD knowledge/expectations, support, closeness…2018 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous versus Pretransplant Native Nephrectomy in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Patients
Introduction: 50% of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) patients will develop ESRD. For those patients who undergo renal transplantation (RT) and require a native…2018 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Pharmacokinetics (PK) at Low, Medium, and High Trough Levels in Patients Converted from Twice-Daily Immediate-Release Tacrolimus (TacBID) to Once-Daily Extended-Release Tacrolimus (LCPT)
LCPT (Envarsus XR®) is a once-daily, extended-release formulation of tacrolimus which has demonstrated greater bioavailability and a smoother PK profile compared to TacBID. This post-hoc…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Providers Can't Let Go! An Analysis of an RN Driven Tacrolimus Dose Adjustment Protocol
Introduction: Tacrolimus (FK) dose adjustment is frequently performed by non-MD staff. Standard protocols to evaluate the ability of non-providers to maintain pts within a goal…
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