2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes from Brain Death Donors with Cardiac Arrest Accepted for Pancreas Transplantation
Donor selection has a major impact on pancreas transplantation. Cardiac arrest and hypoxemia produce an insult to endothelial cell and may increase the risk of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: Granular Examination of Donor Risk Factors for Discard
Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Understanding risk factors for discard is difficult since most analyses lack granularity and sufficient sample of high disease…2018 American Transplant Congress
Excellent Long Term Outcomes Transplanting Single Pediatric Kidneys from Donors Five Years and Younger into Adult Recipients
Pediatric kidneys have been traditionally considered marginal organs for transplantation & are underutilized given concerns of poor outcomes. Furthermore, long term outcomes of single kidneys…2017 American Transplant Congress
Nucleic Acid Scavenging Microfiber Mesh Inhibits Trauma Induced Inflammation and Thrombosis After Organ Transplantation.
[Introduction] Trauma patients produce a host of danger signals and high levels of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) after cellular injury and tissue damage. Organs from…2017 American Transplant Congress
Variations in Risk-Appetite Between UK Kidney Transplant Centres and Impact on Patient and Graft Outcomes.
Introduction: Risks associated with deceased donors may be donor-related, organ-related, or both. Variations between transplant centres in the risks they are prepared to accept ('risk…2017 American Transplant Congress
Model to Predict Prolonged Delayed Graft Function (DGF) Following Kidney Transplantation from Deceased Donor with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI Tx).
1Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background Our aim is to develop a model to predict prolonged DGF following AKI Tx.Methods AKI Tx (donor terminal Cr>/=2) from 2003 to 2016 were…2017 American Transplant Congress
MELD-Based Allocation Leads to Inferior Survival After Liver Transplantation.
Department of Surgery, Campus Virchow and Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Introduction and BackgroundThe MELD-based allocation system has been implemented in Germany in 2006 in order to decrease waiting list mortality in patients with end stage…2017 American Transplant Congress
KDPI Obscures Trends in Absolute Donor Risk.
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN
The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) is commonly used to measure deceased donor kidney quality based on the kidney donor risk index (KDRI) (Rao, et…2017 American Transplant Congress
Induction Immunotherapy in ECD and DGF Kidneys: Does ECD Equal Diminishing Induction Returns?
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The benefit of induction immunotherapy to prevent DGF or mitigate its effects in recipients of marginal kidneys is not well understood and practices vary. We…2017 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Reduction in Pre-Existing Donor-Specific Antibody Levels After Belatacept- vs Cyclosporine-Based Immunosuppression.
1Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 2Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ
Purpose: We explored the effect of belatacept (bela)- and cyclosporine (CsA)-based immunosuppression (IS) on pre-existing donor-specific antibody (DSA) levels by mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) in…
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