2018 American Transplant Congress
Meeting OPTN Requirements for Living Kidney Donation Follow-Up: Findings from the KDOC Study
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) requires programs to submit complete, accurate and timely clinical information for 80% and laboratory data for 70% of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Cold Pulsatile Machine Perfusion versus Static Cold Storage in Kidneys from Donation after Circulatory Death: A Multi-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial
Introduction:Delayed graft function affects around half of all recipients of donation after circulatory death (DCD) kidneys in the UK and has a significant impact on…2018 American Transplant Congress
Association of Body Mass Index of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Graft Function Post-Transplant
Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI.
Purpose: Obese kidney transplant recipients (KTR) are known to have a significantly higher risk of delayed graft function; however, there is no data on patients…2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Hospitals Increase Volumes and Acceptance Rates under the COIIN Project
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond.
Introduction. Transplant center performance monitoring is based on one-year patient and graft survival. Through the OPTN contract with HRSA, UNOS created the Collaborative Innovation and…2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating Transplant Quality Staffing Models via a National Survey
Vanderbilt Transplant Center, VUMC, Nashville, TN.
The 2007 CMS Final Rule included expectations that transplant centers implement data-driven quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) programs. Currently, insufficient data exists to guide…2018 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus with Reduced-Dose Calcineurin Inhibitor versus Mycophenolate with Standard-Dose Calcineurin Inhibitor in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients: Renal Function Results from the TRANSFORM Study
1TRANSFORM Study Group, Barcelona, Spain; 2Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
Purpose: TRANSFORM (NCT01950819) is the largest study conducted in de novo kidney transplant recipients (KTxRs) to evaluate the benefit of everolimus with reduced-dose calcineurin inhibitor…2018 American Transplant Congress
Components of Microvascular Inflammation (MVI) in Kidney Transplant Biopsies (KTxBX) Impacting Late Death Censored Graft Failure (DCGF)
Recent studies document that MVI increases DCGF. However, the relationship between components of MVI (Banff scores g, cg, ptc) and macrovascular inflammation (v) have not…2018 American Transplant Congress
Higher Early Post-Liver Transplant Mortality in Recipients with Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis versus Alcoholic Cirrhosis
INTRODUCTIONThe American Consortium of Early Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis (ACCELERATE-AH) is a multicenter cohort from 8 UNOS regions studying early liver transplant (LT) for…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Chauvet Workgroup: From Inception to the Future
From the first hand transplant that ushered in the era of reconstructive transplantation, it was apparent that the psychosocial background of the patient and the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Molecular Phenotypes of Injury and Rejection in Lung Transplant Transbronchial Biopsies
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Purpose: Histologic assessment of lung transplant transbronchial biopsies (TBB) is not reproducible and cannot assess antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR). Molecular diagnostics (MMDx) successfully identified rejection in…
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