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Articles tagged "Methodology"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    An Updated Estimate of Post-Transplant Survival After Implementation of the New Donor Heart Allocation Policy

    K. A. Lazenby1, N. Narang2, K. M. Pelzer3, G. Ran1, W. F. Parker3

    1Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Advocate Heart Institute, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 3Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Published estimates showing lower post-transplant survival after implementation of the new heart allocation policy may be biased downward due to incomplete follow-up on surviving…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Reality Capture Using Light Detection and Ranging 3D Photography of Liver Grafts for Volumetric Assessment: A Proof-of-Concept Preliminary Study

    K. E. Karakasi1, G. Katsanos2, I. Karolos3, V. Tsioukas3, G. Tsoulfas4

    1University Transplantation Surgical Clinic, Heppocrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2Transplantation, Aristitle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 3School of Runal and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 4University Transplantation Surgical Clinic, Hippocrateion’ General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    *Purpose: Reality capture uses various technical means to capture a digital 3D model representation of a subject from the real world. Whole liver graft volume…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Influence of the Competing Risk of Recipient Death on the Risk Estimation of Kidney Transplant Failure

    M. Coemans1, G. Verbeke2, B. Döhler3, C. Süsal3, M. Naesens1

    1Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre, Leuven, Belgium, 3Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

    *Purpose: Prognostic models for kidney transplant failure are often based on methods that censor for recipient death. Death is a competing event biasing the risk…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    A Noninvasive Diagnostic Approach for Molecular Monitoring of Face Transplant Recipients

    C. Snopkowski1, P. Rabbani2, H. Yang1, Z. Berman2, G. Diep2, C. Li1, T. Muthukumar1, R. Ding1, D. Ceradini2, M. Suthanthiran1

    1Weill Cornell Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, NY, NY, 2NYU Langone Health, Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NY, NY

    *Purpose: Skin biopsies are currently the gold standard for evaluating the inflammatory status of face allografts. However, “tape stripping” is emerging as a noninvasive technique…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    The Clinical Validation of a Dried Blood Spot Method for Simultaneous Tacrolimus and Creatinine Measurement

    M. I. Francke1, S. Bouarfa2, B. van Domburg2, D. van de Velde2, M. E. Hellemons3, O. C. Manintveld4, S. M. Last-Koopmans5, M. B. Mulder2, D. A. Hesselink1, B. C. de Winter2

    1Internal medicine, nephrology and transplantation, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2Hospital Pharmacy, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 3Pulmonary medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4Cardiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 5Hematology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    *Purpose: Monitoring tacrolimus concentrations and kidney function after transplantation is important to avoid tacrolimus under- and overexposure and its clinical consequences, including acute nephrotoxicity. Using…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Poor Reliability of Karnofsky Performance Score in Kidney Transplant Candidates

    M. R. Stedman, D. J. Watford, G. M. Chertow, J. C. Tan

    Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

    *Purpose: The Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) Scale has been used as a proxy for frailty and as a predictor of transplant outcomes, however reliability of…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Needs of People with Kidney Transplantation During the Covid 19 Pandemic and Its Confinement, and the Role of Communication Technologies Through the “Patient Experience”

    I. Revuelta1, E. Palou2, R. Scandurra3, F. Oppenheimer1, F. Diekmann1, J. Escarrabill2, B. Bayés1

    1Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, 2Chronic care program and patient experience, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, 3Department of Statistics, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    *Purpose: During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare services have focused on the care of acute processes and there is a risk of not meeting the needs…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Mass Cytometry-Based Immunoprofiling as a Tool to Predict Rejection in a Large Cohort of Pediatric Transplant Recipients

    M. Rao1, J. T. Harden2, M. Lapasaran2, C. O. Esquivel3, O. M. Martinez2, S. M. Krams2

    1Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 3Surgery and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

    *Purpose: Rejection remains a serious problem in the pediatric transplant population. Early detection remains a challenge; furthermore, the changes in immune makeup which accompany rejection…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Improved Medication Safety Outcomes with a Mobile Health, Pharmacist-Led Intervention: Results of the TRANSAFE Rx Randomized Controlled Trial

    H. Gonzales, J. Fleming, M. Gebregziabher, J. McGillicuddy, D. Taber

    MUSC, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: Medication (med) safety events are a predominant cause of poor health outcomes, particularly within high-risk groups such as kidney transplant (KTX) recipients. The primary…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Quantifying Gender-Based Disparties in Liver Allocation: A Path Forward

    B. A. Shelton1, K. Olthoff2, E. Pomfret3, K. A. Forde2, D. Sawinski4, M. Gray1, N. Ascher5, J. E. Locke1

    1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 3University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, 4University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 5University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: Differences in local organ supply and demand have introduced geographic inequities in the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) based liver allocation system prompting…
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