Articles tagged "Monitoring"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Establishing a Framework for Long-Term Follow-Up: A Survey of Perspectives and Preferences of Living Kidney Donors
S. K. Singh¹, N. Caton², O. Johnston², C. S. Hanson³, A. Dominello³, K. Yetzer⁴, D. Chang², A. Tong³, J. S. Gill²
¹Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, ⁴Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada
*Purpose: There is currently no established standard for long-term follow-up of living kidney donors in Canada. To inform a new national standard, we sought to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Real-Life Tacrolimus Levels Are Associated with Biopsy-Proven Acute Rejection After the First Year Post-Kidney Transplantation
S. Meziyerh, T. van Gelder, D. van der Helm, P. J. van der Boog, J. W. de Fijter, D. J. Moes, A. P. de Vries
LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands
*Purpose: Evidence to recommend specific target concentrations for immunosuppression beyond the first year of kidney transplantation (KT) is limited. We correlated real-life exposure data of…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Creating a Workflow for the Electronic Medical Record Allows Living Donor Liver Transplantation Programs to Track Candidates and Identify Areas for Optimization
A. Liapakis¹, R. Batra¹, E. Cohen², D. Haakinson¹, M. Schilsky¹, K. Ventura², D. Mulligan¹
¹Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: To provide a pathway to increase living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) opportunities through creation of a simple workflow algorithm embedded within the EPIC electronic…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Measurement of Physical Activity and Frailty in the Early Post-Operative Period After Liver Transplant Surgery: Single-Center Pilot Study Using Fitbit Watch
T. Shamaa, L. Allenspach, O. Shamaa, S. Shimada, C. Crombez, O. Hage-Hassan, T. Kitajima, S. Yeddula, I. Bajjoka, K. Collins, M. Rizzari, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, S. Nagai
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Robust physical activity after liver transplant (LT) is an important determinant of long-term health. Patient and providers assessments of perioperative physical activity do not…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Discordant Histological Findings During Acute Rejection in a Combined Face and Hand Transplant Recipient
O. C. Onuh¹, J. Trilles¹, W. J. Rifkin¹, H. Brydges¹, B. F. Chaya¹, R. Rodriguez Colon¹, D. Boczar¹, D. J. Ceradini¹, E. D. Rodriguez¹, B. E. Gelb²
¹Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ²Transplant Institute, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate histologic findings in a face and bilateral hand transplant recipient that was monitored with multi-site allograft…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Critical Care of the Brain-Dead Recipient of a Pig-to-Human Renal Transplant
G. L. Piper¹, P. Sommer², J. M. Stern¹, B. Sullivan¹, E. Weldon¹, N. Lawson¹, B. Lonze¹, R. Dieter², G. Boulton¹, R. Montgomery¹
¹NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY, ²NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*Purpose: The care of a brain dead (BD) patient undergoing xenotransplantation in a non-clinical environment poses unique challenges. Selection of an appropriate decedent, stabilization of…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Circulating Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA: A Novel Non-Invasive Biomarker for Immune Surveillance in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
W. J. Rifkin¹, J. Trilles¹, P. S. Rabbani¹, O. C. Onuh¹, B. E. Gelb², D. J. Ceradini¹, E. D. Rodriguez¹
¹Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ²Transplant Institute, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether circulating donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) could be used as a noninvasive biomarker to detect rejection…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Validation of Automated Urinary Chemokine Assays for Non-Invasive Detection of Kidney Transplant Rejection: A Large Prospective Cohort Study
E. Van Loon¹, C. Tinel¹, J. Callemeyn¹, M. Coemans¹, A. Van Craenenbroeck¹, T. Vaulet², D. Anglicheau³, M. Naesens¹
¹Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²ESAT STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ³Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
*Purpose: Non-invasive diagnostic markers for kidney transplant rejection can provide useful information but often do not reach the clinical implementation stage. The chemokines CXCL9 and…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Biological Functions of Circulating miRNAs in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis Undergoing Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation
S. Vasu¹, C. Darden², Y. Liu³, M. Lawrence⁴, B. Naziruddin¹
¹Baylor University Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX, ²Baylor University, Waco, TX, ³-Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Our previous reports showed that in patients with Chronic Pancreatitis (CP), specific microRNAs (miRNA) were elevated in circulation before, during islet infusion and after…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Utility of a Holistic Molecular Paradigm for Kidney Biopsy in the Clinic
S. Anand¹, J. Sanchez-Garcia¹, K. Qui², K. Pinney², A. Raza¹, T. Srinivas², D. Morris¹
¹Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, ²CareDX, South San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: We report on the clinical utility of a serial dd-cfDNA (donor derived cell free DNA) monitoring coupled with Tissue Transcriptomics (Tr) and Histology (Hx)…