2020 American Transplant Congress
Use of Cell Saver Leads to Lower Consumption of Blood Products During Liver Transplantation
Anesthesiology, Ikem, Prague, Czech Republic
*Purpose: Liver transplantation is often accompanied by significant blood loss and consequently a large consumption of blood products. In recent years, there has been a…2020 American Transplant Congress
Imaging OX40+Alloreactive T Cells Provides Early Warning of Organ Transplant Rejection
*Purpose: Diagnosis of organ transplant rejection relies upon biopsy approaches to confirm alloreactive T cell infiltration in the graft. Immuno positron emission tomography (immunoPET) utilizing…2020 American Transplant Congress
Diligent Prospective BK Virus (BKV) Monitoring and Management Post Kidney Transplant to Mitigate Risk of BK Nephropathy and Rejection: A Single Center Experience
1Medical City Transplant Institute, Fort Worth, TX, 2Tarrant Nephrology Associates, Fort Worth, TX
*Purpose: BK viremia and nephropathy are evolving challenges in post-kidney transplants. Currently, monitoring and management strategies vary across centers. At our program, we prospectively monitor…2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Regimen Adherence for Kidney Recipients by Engaging Information Technologies: Update on the Take It Trial
*Purpose: In 2017, the TAKE IT trial began its evaluation of a multifaceted, technology-enabled, transplant center-based intervention to monitor medication adherence behaviors among Kidney Transplant…2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Optimization of Workflow for Timing of Inpatient Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Maintenance Immunosuppressive Drugs in Abdominal Transplant Recipients
Department of Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is essential to the safety and efficacy of immunosuppressants (IS) given their narrow therapeutic index. After an internal review, it…2020 American Transplant Congress
Measuring and Monitoring Equity in Access to Deceased Donor Lung Transplants among Lung Registrations
*Purpose: In 2018, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) published a methodology to measure equity in access to deceased donor kidney transplantation that has…2020 American Transplant Congress
Relationship between Tacrolimus Intrapatient Variability and Medication Adherence in Kidney Transplant Recipients
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*Purpose: Intrapatient variability (IPV) has been established as a risk factor for poor post-transplant outcomes. IPV is frequently proposed to be related to nonadherence but…2020 American Transplant Congress
Renal Allograft Surveillance with Allospecific T-cytotoxic Memory Cells Which Express CD154
Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Allo-antigen-specific T-cytotoxic memory cells (TcM) which express CD40 ligand (CD154) in overnight lymphocyte co-culture are strongly associated with acute cellular rejection (ACR) seen in…2020 American Transplant Congress
Is Total Ischemic Time a Measure of OPTN Efficiency? Monitoring the Impact of Lung Allocation Policy on Ischemic Time
*Purpose: There is concern that the shift to circle based organ allocation policy may increase coordination costs. Within both public comment and the peer reviewed…2020 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of Gut Microbiome in Liver Transplant Recipients with Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
*Purpose: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its progressive form non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a growing problem globally and recurs even after liver transplant (LT).…
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