2018 American Transplant Congress
Clostridium Difficile Infection after Liver Transplant is Associated with Poor Long-Term Survival
Division of Organ Transplantation, Umass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA.
Background: Clostridium Difficile infection (CDI) is a growing problem in hospitalized patients and occurs in liver transplant recipients at a higher rate than non-transplant patients.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Frailty is Predictive of Early Post-Transplant Infection in Older Renal Transplant Recipients
Background: Frailty is predictive of postoperative morbidity, including infections in older surgical patients. It is not known if frailty is associated with post-operative infections in…2018 American Transplant Congress
C1q-Binding Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies for Clinical Decision Making in Kidney Recipients with Antibody-Mediated Rejection Receiving Standard of Care Treatment
One of the major issues in the clinical management of kidney recipients with ABMR is the lack of early and reliable markers that surrogate long-term…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation in Patients with Spontaneous Spleno-Renal Shunt
Aim: Our aim was to describe the outcomes of liver transplantation (LT) in patients with spontaneous spleno-renal shunt (SSRS) and to define the adequate portal…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Renal Transplantation in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients Varies Markedly across UNOS Networks
Background: Outcome after living donor kidney transplantation (LD) is significantly better than after deceased donor transplantation (DD). Disparities in access to living donor renal transplantation…2018 American Transplant Congress
What Threshold MFI is the Luminex 1:8 Dilution the Poor Man's C1q for Patients Awaiting Heart Transplant?
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: Heart transplant candidates are evaluated for anti-HLA antibodies by Luminex single-antigen bead testing to avoid donors that may harbor antigens that these antibodies are…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcome in the Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Background: Despite improvements in overall prognosis in lupus nephritis, 10%-30% of patients with proliferative renal involvement progress to end stage renal disease, and kidney transplantation…2018 American Transplant Congress
Treatment Patterns and Burden among Chronic Graft versus Host Disease Patients on Second-Line Systemic Treatments Including Extracorporeal Photopheresis
Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) is a cell-based immunomodulatory therapeutic procedure reimbursable by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for patients with chronic Graft versus Host…2018 American Transplant Congress
Higher Concordance in the Incidence of DGF and Post-Transplant BKV Infection among Recipients Receiving Mate Kidneys from the Same Deceased Donor: A Paired Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Analysis
Background: This study was undertaken to explore the degree to which donor variables impact rates of DGF, post-transplant CMV and BKV infections using a paired…2018 American Transplant Congress
Mycoplasma hominis Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Retrospective Case Series
1UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3UC-San Diego, San Diego.
Background: Mycoplasma hominis is increasingly recognized as a respiratory pathogen causing invasive disease in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. We reviewed the clinical characteristics, management…
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