Articles tagged "Outcome"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Outcome of Kidney Transplant Recipients Treated with Everolimus: Final 5-Years Results from the Certic Observational Study.
L. Furian,¹ L. Di Maria,² G. Cappelli,³ M. Carmellini,⁴ G. Spagnoletti,⁵ G. Piredda,⁶ P. Todeschini,⁷ S. Chiaramonte,⁸ G. Tisone.⁹
¹AOU di Padova, Padova, Italy; ²AOU Careggi, Firenze, Italy; ³AOUP di Modena, Modena, Italy; ⁴AOU Senese, Siena, Italy; ⁵PU A.Gemelli, Roma, Italy; ⁶AO G.Brotzu, Cagliari, Italy; ⁷AOP S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy; ⁸PO S.Bortolo, Vicenza, Italy; ⁹Fondazione PU Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
Everolimus is associated with long-term benefits, such as preserving renal function and reducing the incidence of infections, malignancies and major cardiovascular events (MACE). The Certic…
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Culture Specific Interventions to Increase Organ Donation Advocacy in a Hispanic Serving Institution.
Y. Tasnif,¹ S. Ghaddar,² S. Saladin,³ A. Alaniz.¹
¹Cooperative Pharmacy Program, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX; ²South Texas Border Health Disparities Center, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX; ³School of Rehabilitation Services and Counseling, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX.
Organ donation rates among Hispanics are lower relative to non-Hispanic whites. The purpose of this study is to assess whether participation in a culture-specific educational…
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Pediatric En Bloc Kidney Transplants Reduce DGF and Are Misrepresented by the KDPI.
M. Khan,¹ H. El-Hennawy,¹ A. Farney,¹ J. Rogers,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² M. Gautreaux,³ S. Iskandar,³ W. Doares,⁴ S. Kaczmorski,⁴ R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ³Pathology, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁴Pharmacy, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Controversy exists regarding optimal use of kidneys from small pediatric donors (SPDs). The study purpose was to compare outcomes between single and dual en bloc…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Hospitalizations, Survival, and Complications: 1-Year Outcomes for Elderly Lung Transplant Recipients.
N. Casciello, A. Fuentes, J. Krisl, N. Sinha, T. Kaleekal.
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.
Purpose: In 2014, The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation published consensus guidelines listing age greater than 65 years as a relative contraindication to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Patients with CPRA Values >98% After Implementation of the New OPTN/UNOS Kidney Allocation System (KAS): A Single Center Study Update.
N. Kaur,¹ S. Goral,¹ J. Kearns,² P. Abt,³ A. Naji,³ P. Porrett,³ M. Levine,³ M. Kamoun.²
¹Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; ³Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia.
Background: Sensitized patients have had prolonged waiting times and greater incidence of death while on the waiting list. On December 4, 2014, UNOS/OPTN activated a…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Donor Transmited Rabies Outbreak Involving Four Transplant Recepients in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
H. Elsiesy,^1,2 I. Hussain,³ F. Abaalkhail,^1,2 W. Al-Hamoudi,¹ H. Elbeshbeshy,¹ M. Al Sebayel,¹ D. Broering,¹ A. Elgohary,¹ S. Al Fawaz,⁴ S. Althawadi,⁵ J. Alotaibi,⁴ H. AlHindi,⁵ P. Nair,⁶ T. Al- Otaibi,⁶ N. Nampoory,⁶ L. Orciar,⁷ A. Velasco-Villa,⁷ P. Yager,⁷ T. Smith,⁷ W. Carson,⁷ M. Niezgoda,⁷ A. Wadhwa,⁷ R. Edgar Condori,⁷ Y. Li,⁷ R. Franka,⁷ M. Halim,⁴ R. Willoughby.⁸
¹Liver Transplantation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ²Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ³Department of Critical Care, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ⁴Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ⁵Pathology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ⁶Hamed Al Essa Organ Transplant Centre, Ibn Sina Hospital, Kuwait, Kuwait; ⁷Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta; ⁸Pediatric, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Background and Aims: There have been 10 outbreaks of rabies following solid organ or corneal transplantation. In December 2014, 4 organ recipients died in 2…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Stratifying Skin Versus Non-Skin Cancer Risk Post-Kidney Transplantation According to Patient Characteristics.
F. Jackson-Spence,¹ H. Gillott,¹ S. Tahir,¹ F. Evison,² J. Nath,³ A. Sharif.³
¹University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ²Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ³Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Introduction Cancer is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality after kidney transplantation but risk differs e.g. non-melanoma skin cancers have a better prognosis compared…
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Evaluation of the Major Adverse Cardiac Events Risk with Everolimus-Based Calcineurin Inhibitor Reduction or Withdrawal Regimen in Liver Transplant Recipients: 3-Year Post-Hoc Analysis of the Randomized H2304 Extension Study.
P. Bernhardt,¹ G. Dong,² P. Lopez,¹ G. Hustache,¹ G. Bader.¹
¹Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland; ²Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hannover.
Purpose:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death in liver transplant recipients (LTxRs). Impaired glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a risk factor…
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Prior Infection or Colonization with Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Is Not an Absolute Contraindication for Solid Organ Transplantation.
S. Huprikar,¹ L. Casner,¹ S. Pouch,² M. Pinheiro Freire,³ R. Madan,⁴ E. Kwak,⁵ M. Satlin,⁶ P. Hartman,⁷ L. Pisney,⁸ P. Henrique Mourão,⁹ R. La Hoz,¹⁰ G. Patel.¹
¹Mount Sinai, New York; ²Ohio State, Columbus; ³Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ⁴Albert Einstein, Bronx; ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ⁶Cornell, New York; ⁷Henry Ford Health System, Detroit; ⁸University of Colorado, Denver; ⁹Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; ¹⁰UT Southwestern, Dallas.
BackgroundCarbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infection is associated with poor outcomes after solid organ transplantation (SOT). The significance of CRE colonization or infection prior to SOT is…
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Utility of Six-Minute-Walk Distance in Predicting Lung Transplant Benefit in the Lung Allocation Score Era.
S. Shah,¹ D. Tumin,³ B. Whitson,² A. Pope-Harman,¹ S. Kirkby,¹ A. Kilic,² P. Lee,² D. Hayes.^1,3
¹Pulmonary and Critical Care, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; ²Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; ³Pediatrics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Transplant physicians evaluate patients for lung transplant (LTx) who are on ventilators and ECMO with high lung allocation scores (LAS). Six-minute walk distance (6MWD) predicts…