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Seasonality of Mortality for Solid Organ Waitlist Candidates
*Purpose: Analysis of the impact of policies or natural occurrences on transplant system outcomes requires comparison of a treatment (post-policy) period to a control (pre-policy)…2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 Related Deaths Across the U.S. in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic poses a unique challenge for immunosuppression patients following kidney transplantation. Studies involving a single center or few centers have suggested that…2021 American Transplant Congress
Patient Survival After Living Donor Kidney Donation
*Purpose: Living donor kidney transplantation [LDKT] is associated with best patient survival and life quality among kidney replacement therapies in case of chronic kidney disease.…2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 Severity within One Year of Liver, Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation
Solid Organ Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The current pandemic has created uncertainty in the severity of COVID-19 in transplant recipients, especially those given lymphocyte depleting therapy within a year prior…2021 American Transplant Congress
Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin Induction is Not Associated with Improved Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Controversy remains on the role of rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) induction for calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) delay after liver transplantation (LT). We examined the effect…2021 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Mortality in Kidney Transplant Patients Infected by Sars-cov-2 in South of Spain
*Purpose: Covid-19 pandemic has especially affected kidney transplant (KT) recipients, who are more vulnerable than the general population due to their immunosuppressive status and added…2020 American Transplant Congress
Timing of Bariatric Surgery for Obese Kidney Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: The high risk profile of bariatric surgery in obese end-stage-renal disease (ESRD) patients has caused many to suggest that surgery should be reserved for…2020 American Transplant Congress
High Rate of Positive Cultures from Deceased Donors, A Review of 500 Deceased Donors and More Than 700 Recipients from a Single Center in Saudi Arabia
*Purpose: Limited organ supply is one of the major challenges facing organ transplantation. Donor-derived multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria have been documented with variable outcomes. In Saudi…2020 American Transplant Congress
Graft and Patient Survival after A2-Incompatible Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: The Kidney Allocation System (KAS), implemented in 2014, increased offers of ABO type A2 donor kidneys to type O and B recipients, and A2B…2020 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of the Discrimination of 13 Mortality Risk Scores after Heart Transplantation in a Contemporary UNOS Cohort
Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Multiple pre-transplant scores aimed at stratifying the risk of death or allograft loss after heart transplantation have been developed over time but their use…
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