Articles tagged "Multivariate analysis"

2019 American Transplant Congress
The Immigrant Bonus: Non US Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients Have Superior Outcomes versus US Citizen Recipients. A Retrospective Study of 30,092 Subjects Using the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) from 1992-2015
T. Butler¹, A. Rana², S. Fink¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Crozer Prospect Medical Center-Drexel University, Upland, PA, ²Transplant Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: In 2017, there were 19,849 kidney transplant recipients, and most of these patients were US Citizens1. There has been however, a significant amount non-US…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Association of Health Literacy with Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Organ Transplant Candidates
K. Chapin¹, S. Rega¹, L. Dageforde², D. Moore¹, M. Via¹, I. D. Feurer¹
¹Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: This study aimed to determine the association of health literacy with pre-transplant health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adults evaluated for potential listing for…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms among Solid Organ Transplant Donors
J. A. Anesi¹, E. A. Blumberg¹, J. H. Han¹, D. H. Lee², H. Clauss³, A. Climaco⁴, R. Hasz⁵, E. Molnar³, D. Alimenti¹, S. West⁵, W. Bilker¹, P. Tolomeo¹, E. Lautenbach¹
¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Transplant guidelines recommend exercising caution when considering donor organs that may be infected or colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Approaches to identifying such potentially…
2019 American Transplant Congress
High Health Care Utilizers in Kidney Transplantation: Do You Know Your Frequent Flyers?
E. Weeda¹, Z. Su², D. Taber³, J. Bian², T. A. Morinelli⁴, N. A. Pilch⁵, P. D. Mauldin², D. A. DuBay⁴
¹Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ²General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ³Surgery and Ralph H. Johnson VAMC, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ⁴Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC, ⁵Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina`, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: To assess high hospital inpatient [IP] admissions and emergency department [ED] utilization within a 9-month period after kidney transplantation in order to identify potential…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Antibiotics Pretreatment Protects Liver Transplants from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury via Prostaglandin E2: From Bench-to Bedside
K. Nakamura, S. Kageyama, T. Ito, H. Hirao, K. Kadono, K. J. Dery, J. Aziz, B. Ke, F. M. Kaldas, R. W. Busuttil, J. W. Kupiec‐Weglinski
Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: We and others have reported on benefits of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress modulation and autophagy enhancement to mitigate ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in orthotopic liver…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Immunosuppressant Adherence in Adult Heart Transplant Recipients: An Analysis of Pharmacy Claims and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Data
W. S. Cherikh¹, A. R. Wilk¹, J. Maghirang¹, E. A. Witt², H. Kirkham³, S. Boghani², N. Hira⁴, G. Pietradoni², D. K. Klassen¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Walgreens Co, Deerfield, IL, ³Walgreens Co, Deerfied, IL, ⁴AllianceRx Walgreens Prime, Orlando, FL
*Purpose: The current study was conducted to determine characteristics that are associated with immunosuppressant (IS) medication adherence among adult recipients of deceased donor heart transplants…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Non-Immunologic Donor-Recipient Pairing, HLA Matching, and Graft Loss in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
A. Vinson¹, B. Kiberd¹, R. Davis², K. Tennankore¹
¹Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: In kidney transplantation, non-immunologic donor-recipient (D-R) pairing is generally not given the same consideration as immunologic matching. The aim of this study was to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Immunosuppressant Adherence in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients in the United States
W. S. Cherikh¹, A. R. Wilk¹, J. Maghirang¹, E. A. Witt², H. Kirkham², S. Boghani², N. Hira³, G. Pietradoni², D. K. Klassen¹
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, ²Walgreen Co, Deerfield, IL, ³AllianceRx Walgreens Prime, Orlando, FL
*Purpose: We sought to determine the characteristics associated with immunosuppressant (IS) medication adherence among adult recipients of deceased donor liver transplants (TXs) in the US.*Methods:…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Early CXCR5⁺PD1⁺ICOS⁺Circulating Follicular T Helpers Are Associated with De Novo Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies after Renal Transplantation
R. Danger¹, M. Chesneau¹, F. Delbos², S. Lebot¹, C. Kerleau¹, A. Chenouard¹, A. Cesbron², M. Giral³, S. Brouard³
¹CRTI- INSERM UMR 1064- ITUN- Labex IGO -Université de Nantes -CHU Nantes, Nantes, France, ²Laboratoire Histocompatibilité et Immunogénétique - Etablissement Français du sang, Nantes, France, ³Centre d’Investigation Clinique en Biothérapie, Centre de ressources biologiques, Fondation Centaure, CRTI- INSERM UMR 1064- ITUN- Labex IGO -Université de Nantes -CHU Nantes, Nantes, France
*Purpose: Donor specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA) are a major risk factor associated with renal allograft outcome. As a trigger of B cell antibody production, T…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Multilevel Correlates of Immunosuppressive Nonadherence in Kidney Transplant Patients – The Multicenter ADHERE BRAZIL Study
H. Sanders-Pinheiro¹, F. A. Colugnati¹, K. Denhaerynck², E. O. Marsicano¹, J. O. Medina³, S. De Geest², A. ADHERE BRAZIL Study team¹
¹Nephrology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, ²Institute of Nursing Science, Department of Public Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ³Hospital do Rim e Hipertensão/Nephrology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: Nonadherence to immunosuppressive therapy is a risk factor for poor clinical and economic outcomes after kidney transplantation (KT). Brazil, having the largest public and…

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