Articles tagged "Outcome"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Features and Outcomes of Candidemia in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
G. Krishnan, Y. Hamad, I. George
Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
*Purpose: Fungal infections represent an uncommon etiology of Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) infections but can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. In this study,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Treatment of Biopsy-Proven Pyelonephritis of the Transplanted Kidney is Associated with Better Graft Outcomes
F. Aziz, C. Saddler, J. Alstott, K. Swanson, S. Parajuli, N. Garg, A. Djamali, D. Mandelbrot
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: The outcomes of treatment of pyelonephritis of the transplant kidney is not known.*Methods: From 01/1998 to 12/2019, 101 patients were found to have pyelonephritis…
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Reduction in Hospitalizations and Deaths in Covid-19 Positive Abdominal Organ Transplant Recipients Following Implementation of A Protocol for Early Treatment with Bamlanivimab
A. Ahearn, T. Maw, J. Emamaullee, J. Kim, E. Blodget, J. Kahn, C. Goldbeck, L. Sher, Y. Genyk
Abdominal Transplantation, Keck Medical Center of USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: In December of 2020, our program was identifying up to twenty COVID-19 positive abdominal transplant recipients per week. After seeing our high hospitalization and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Hepatitis C Nucleic Acid Testing Positive Donors in Aviremic Recipients With Delayed Direct-Acting Antiviral Initiation
M. Hudson, A. Webb, A. Logan, A. Silverman, A. Brueckner
Pharmacy, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical impact of utilizing hepatitis C virus (HCV) nucleic acid testing (NAT)+ donors in HCV…
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Cardiac Outcomes in Isolated Heart and Simultaneous Kidney and Heart Transplants in the US
K. A. Agarwal¹, H. Patel¹, N. Agrawal¹, F. Cardarelli¹, N. Goyal²
¹Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Kidney dysfunction is not uncommon in patients with advanced heart failure. Simultaneous kidney and heart transplants (SKHT) have gained acceptance as treatment for patients…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV+ Recipients: A Single-Center Study
M. Samra¹, A. Hall², I. Tang²
¹Medicine, Edward Hines VA, Hines, IL, ²Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: HIV+ patients are eligible to recieve a kidney transplant (KT) provided they meet criteria of undetectable viral load (VL) and CD4 count >200. We…
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Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Severe Pulmonary Hypertension: Not an Absolute Contraindication?
B. Prajapati¹, D. Gumber², I. Moinuddin¹, C. Bhati¹, G. Gupta¹, D. Grinnan³, D. Kumar¹
¹Nephrology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ²Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, ³Pulmonology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) as defined by a pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) >50mmHg is associated with high peri-operative mortality and thus is…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Recovery After Surgery Protocol in Kidney Transplantation is Associated with Decreased Hospital Stay and Improved Clinical Outcomes
Y. Lin, M. Eltemamy, K. Sasaki, V. Krishnamurthi, D. Goldfarb, A. Wee
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Early recovery after surgery protocols (ERAS) has been adopted in many surgical procedures. In 2018 we introduced transplant ERAS to our institution. It included…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Review of 10-Year Liver Explant Pathology Impact on Outcomes in a Single Center
Y. K. Kwon¹, L. Sher¹, S. Khemichian², J. Kahn², Y. Genyk¹
¹Hepatobiliary and Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Explant pathology (EP) is an important prognostic factor after liver transplantation (LT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The purpose of this study was to correlate…
2021 American Transplant Congress
AM PAC Scores and Liver Transplant Resource Utilization
M. Pierpont¹, M. Gosselin², K. Robichaux³, A. Kumar¹, J. Buggs⁴, N. Kemmer⁵
¹Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ²Honors College, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, ³Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁵Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) is a tool utilized to assess three functional domains: basic mobility, daily activities, and applied cognition. Previous studies…