Articles tagged "N/A"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Twice Weekly Valganciclovir for Cytomegalovirus Infection Prophylaxis in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Delayed Graft Function on Hemodialysis
S. A. Mehta¹, A. Katz², R. Dieter², P. Jen², J. Siegfried², J. Papadopoulos², T. Lewis²
¹Infectious Diseases, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ²Pharmacy, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*Purpose: The incidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains high in the first year following kidney transplantation. Valganciclovir (VGC) is commonly prescribed in the early post-operative period…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation in Locally Unresectable, Undifferentiated Embryonal Cell Sarcoma
B. I. Babu, D. L. Bigam, K. Z. Dajani, J. A. Shapiro, N. Kneteman
General Surgery ( HPB & Transplant), University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
*Purpose: Undifferentiated Embryonal Cell Sarcoma (UESL) of the liver is the third most common malignant liver disease of childhood presenting as a rapidly enlarging intra-abdominal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Epithelial To Mesenchymal Transition Mediates Engraftment Of Endoderm And Hepatic Progenitor Cells In The Quiescent Liver
W. S. Fagg¹, N. Lui², L. Patrikeev³, O. Saldarriaga*⁴, H. Lerner-Stevenson⁵, V. Popov⁶, M. Motamade³, J. H. Fair¹
¹Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²Surgery, Naiyou Lui, Galveston, TX, ³Ophthalmology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ⁴Pathology, Omar Saldarriaga, Galveston, TX, ⁵pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ⁶Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: Stem cell transplantation to the liver is a promising therapeutic strategy for a variety of disorders. Hepatocyte transplantation has short term efficacy, but can…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pumping in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation—Does it Matter?
M. MacConmara, J. Gattineni, D. Desai, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Pulsatile perfusion of deceased donor kidneys is commonly practiced in adult kidney transplantation. We examined the practice of pulsatile perfusion in pediatric patients undergoing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Acute Liver Failure Requiring Liver Transplantation Due to Acute Hepatitis A Infection: A Case Series
C. Xie¹, J. M. Fenkel¹, D. L. Halegoua-DeMarzio¹, J. M. Civan¹, D. M. Tholey¹, S. K. Herrine¹, M. Thapar¹, S. Arastu¹, A. M. Frank², A. P. Shah², J. M. Glorioso², C. G. Ramirez², A. S. Bodzin², W. R. Maley², D. A. Sass¹
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, ²Transplant Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: On August 1, Philadelphia declared a public health emergency regarding rapid increases in new acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) cases, with 355 locally-acquired cases…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
I. A. Ziogas¹, W. R. Johnson¹, C. Thurm², M. Hall², L. K. Matsuoka¹, M. I. Montenovo¹, M. D. Bacchetta¹, J. Godown³, S. P. Alexopoulos¹
¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, ²Children's Hospital Association, Lenexa, KS, ³Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can be used for oxygen preservation and hemodynamic support in case of circulatory or respiratory failure. Although the role of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept Monthly Therapy: Transplant Recipients’ Experience
S. N. Little¹, É. N. Arsenault Knudsen², D. A. Mandelbrot¹
¹Transplant, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
*Purpose: While graft and patient outcomes with belatacept have been relatively well documented, the decision to use belatacept for kidney transplant recipients rests in part…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Interventions to Improve Patient Care Conducted by Pharmacists at an Outpatient Renal Transplant Clinic within a Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement
K. Johnson, R. Chelewski, A. Langone, M. Peter, A. Zuckerman
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: A collaborative pharmacy practice agreement (CPPA) permits pharmacists to perform clinical services under the guidance of a supervising physician without direct physician intervention. We…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Graft Survival by the Teaching Status of a Transplant Center (2008-2019)
K. Maroney, Z. Wang, K. Ross, J. Hogan, R. Patzer
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Graft survival is an important metric in which transplant centers are graded, yet center-level variation in kidney graft survival still exist after accounting for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Patients’ Perception of Hospital Experience on Organ Donation Rates
A. Azim¹, A. Friedman², S. Nishida¹, K. Okumura¹, G. Veillette¹, T. Diflo¹, R. Latifi¹, H. Sogawa¹
¹Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, ²Transplant, Live On NY, New York, NY
*Purpose: The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a validated data collection methodology for measuring a patient’s perception of his/her…