Articles tagged "N/A"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in Living Donor Follow-up During the COVID-19 Emergency Suspension of OPTN Follow-up Reporting Requirements
S. E. Booker, A. Henderson, L. A. Cartwright, S. Taranto, D. Klassen, J. L. Wainright
UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The OPTN temporarily suspended follow-up reporting requirements on 4/3/20 (retroactive to 3/13/20) in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We assessed the policy’s impact on…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Sars-cov-2 versus Non-sars-cov-2 Infection Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Case Control Study
M. A. Mendoza¹, M. Raja¹, S. Anjan¹, S. C. Curel², G. Rosello³, A. Fernandez¹, A. Chandorkar⁴, C. O'Brien⁵, A. Phancao⁵, N. Sinha¹, R. Vianna¹, M. Loebe¹, C. Gaetano¹, J. Simkins¹, M. Morris¹, L. Abbo¹, J. Camargo¹, G. Guerra¹, Y. Natori¹
¹Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, ²Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, ³University of Miami, Miami, FL, ⁴University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has been raging since the end of 2019. The clinical differences between non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Increased Deceased Organ Donation Rates Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Not Exactly. A UNOS/NHSBT UK Donor Data Analysis Over the Last Five Years
H. Sharma¹, A. Pradeep², A. Ditchfield³, M. Abraham⁴, P. Lominchar⁵, S. Mehra¹, A. Skaro⁴
¹Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²Liver Unit, King's College, London, United Kingdom, ³Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴Transplant Surgery, University Of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ⁵Visceral Surgery, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain
*Purpose: The recent reports suggest that organ donation from minority population have been increasing. The comparative organ donation data from the minority population reported to…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation – Has KAS Made a Difference?
O. Charnaya¹, S. Yu², A. Goldberg³, J. Garonzik-Wang², D. Segev², P. Verghese⁴
¹Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Transplant Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³University of Manitoba, Winninpeg, MB, Canada, ⁴Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Racial and ethnic minority pediatric transplant candidates have known disparities in access to kidney transplantation. The Kidney Allocation System (KAS), implemented in 2014, was…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Selective Regulatory T Cell Expansion by a Novel IL-2 Mutein Prolongs Skin Transplant Survival in Mice
T. J. Borges¹, O. Effe¹, R. B. Gassen¹, A. Al Jurdi¹, I. T. Lape¹, G. J. Babcock², S. M. Carlson², J. C. Madsen¹, L. V. Riella¹
¹Center For Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, ²Visterra, Inc., Waltham, MA
*Purpose: Long-term immunosuppression predisposes transplant patients to a greater risk of infection, malignancy and kidney toxicity. Hence, alternative methods to regulate the immune system are…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Transplant Recipients in a Croatian Transplant Center
A. Mrzljak¹, Z. Jurekovic¹, J. Pavicic Saric², L. Antolasic³, L. Milasincic³, I. Tabain³, T. Vilibic Cavlek³
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Merkur University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia, ²Department of Anesthesiology, Merkur University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia, ³Department of Microbiology, Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
*Purpose: In Croatia, the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been reported on 25 February 2020; however, the COVID-19 seroprevalence in the liver (LTR)…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Endocrine Cell Identity and HOMA-B In Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis Undergoing Islet Auto-transplantation
C. A. Beamish¹, O. Gaber², O. M. Sabek²
¹Surgery, Houston Mehodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Surgery, Houston Mehodist, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Islet identity loss is an emergent factor in dysglycemia in diabetes, islet transplantation, and chronic pancreatitis (CP). Pancreatectomy and islet auto-transplantation (PIAT) for CP…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplant for Unresectable Colorectal Metastasis: A Case Series
B. Emmanuel, H. Al-Harakeh, A. Humar, C. Hughes, A. Tevar, M. Molinari, A. Ganoza
Starzl Transplant Institute, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Colorectal Cancer (CRC) represents the third most common malignancy worldwide. In the US, CRC lifetime risk is approximately 1 in 23 (4.4%) for men…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Compatible Paired Donation in Paired Kidney Exchange: A Look at the Road Not Taken
G. Vranic, A. Gilbert, B. Thomas, S. Ghasemian, M. Cooper, J. Verbesey
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Paired kidney exchange (PKE) offers incompatible donor-recipient pairs increased access to transplant. Compatible pairs are increasingly joining the PKE in an effort to find…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 Caseload and Management Practices Vary by Program-Level Factors: A Multinational Survey Study
S. Sandal¹, B. Boyarsky², P. Chiang², A. Massie², D. Segev², M. Cantarovich¹
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: During the pandemic, the COVID-19 patient caseload (CPC) is thought to be highly variable and likely dependant on the cumulative COVID-19 incidence (CCI) of…