2020 American Transplant Congress
The Composite Molecular and Cellular Instability Score Identifies the Sub-Phenotypes of Histologically Stable Kidney Transplants
Department of Surgery, BCHSI, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Recent molecular studies have highlighted the unrecognized burden of sub-clinical graft rejection of a histologically stable allograft, defined as transplants with absence of clinical…2020 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery to Improve Candidacy for Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: There is a growing epidemic of obesity in patients with end stage kidney disease in need of kidney transplant, paralleling the general population. Most…2020 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery to Improve Candidacy for Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: As non-alcoholic steatohepatitis grows as an indication for liver transplant, the challenge managing obese pre-liver transplant patients will become more pronounced, especially because most…2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors of Invasive Fungal Infections in Liver Transplantation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: Invasive fungal infection (IFI) remains one of the most common infectious complications after solid organ transplantation. Liver transplant recipients (LTRs) have a higher mortality…2020 American Transplant Congress
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)+ Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) is Associated with Tumor CCL3/CCL4 Expression and an Increase in Tumor-Infiltrating Monocytes
*Purpose: PTLD is a serious post-transplant complication that encompasses a spectrum of abnormal lymphoproliferations, including B cell lymphoma-type PTLDs. Although many are EBV-driven, a significant…2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation for Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survival Rates
1Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Liver transplant (LT) accompanied by neoadjuvant chemoradiation has emerged as the only curative option for unresectable cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). Although numerous centers have published their…2019 American Transplant Congress
Aorto-Iliac Calcification is a Risk Factor for Inferior Patient and Graft Survival in Kidney Transplant Recipients; A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
HPB/Transplant surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: While the incidence of transplanting a kidney onto atherosclerotic iliac arteries is becoming more common, little is known about the clinical outcome. We performed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Donor-Specific IFN-γ ELISPOT as a Predictor of Allograft Rejection: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Meta-Analysis
*Purpose: Pre-transplant interferon-γ (IFN-γ) enzyme-linked immunospot (IFN- γ ELISPOT) has been proposed as a tool to quantify alloreactivity of memory T cells and estimate the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Subtyping Of Histologically Stable Kidney Transplants In Molecular Meta-analysis
*Purpose: Histologically stable allografts have been shown to have molecular inflammation by prior gene expression studies. Nevertheless, there are no methodologies in place to sub-group…2019 American Transplant Congress
Epidemiology of Parvovirus B19 and Anemia among Kidney Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Persistent anemia has been described in kidney transplant (KTx) recipients with Parvovirus B19 virus infection. However, epidemiology of Parvovirus B19 and Parvovirus B19-related anemia…
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