Articles tagged "Outcome"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Five Year Patient Important Outcomes of Treated Acute Rejections Diagnosed with Protocol and Clinical Biopsy after Pancreas Transplant Alone for Type 1 Diabetes
Y. C. Kudva, S. R. Rizvi, R. Kaur, B. H. Smith, S. Batthula, P. G. Dean, A. Kukla, W. K. Kremers, M. D. Stegall
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: STUDY PURPOSE: Acute rejection (AR) after Pancreas Transplant alone (PTA) continues to be a significant morbidity. We compared the outcomes of PTA recipients treated…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function in the Recipients of Simultaneous Liver and Kidney Transplant: A Single-Center Experience
F. Aziz, B. Muth, N. Garg, M. Mohamed, D. Mandelbrot, J. Mezrich, A. Djamali, S. Parajuli
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Increased rates of delayed graft function (DGF) have been reported in the recipients of simultaneous liver and kidney (SLK) transplant. However, the effect of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Intravenous Ferric Gluconate on Post Heart Transplant Outcomes in Patients Bridged with Left Ventricular Assist Devices
N. Krepostman, D. Kim, D. Masic, S. Kuhrau, J. Negrelli, M. Liebo, E. Raichlin, A. Heroux, H. Basha
Internal Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
*Purpose: Our study examined the effect of intravenous (IV) ferric gluconate compared to oral iron repletion in reducing 30-day hospital readmissions and all-cause mortality in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Prevalence of Preemptive Transplantation at a Large Volume Kidney Transplant Center
T. Menser¹, M. J. Hobeika², S. G. Yi², T. Nisar¹, A. Gaber²
¹Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: In the wake of the Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health, it is essential to fully examine the current care paradigm for chronic…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Liver Outcome Monitoring Registry Consortium: Data and Preliminary Outcome Results
J. Case¹, S. Kurian¹, B. Barrick¹, A. Robinson², M. Prentice², C. Marsh¹
¹Scripps Center for Organ and Cell Transplantation, La Jolla, CA, ²United Network for Organ Sharing Research Department, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The Liver Outcome Monitoring Registry (LOMR) is an online platform for collecting and monitoring liver outcome data of marginal and DCD organs to be…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association of Perfusion Characteristics and Post-Transplant Liver Function in Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation
Z. Zhang, Y. Tang, Q. Zhao, Z. Guo, X. He
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: It has been showed that normothermic machine perfusion (NMP), a novel preservation method, is able to assess and resuscitate liver grafts with risk factors.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Belatacept versus Tacrolimus Combined with Antithymocyte Globulin in Kidney Transplantation
J. Goldman¹, A. Mitrokhin², B. Trivedi¹, V. Vidyasagar¹, N. Vadivel¹, N. Goes³, M. Hart¹
¹Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, ²SUNY, Brooklyn, NY, ³Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA
*Purpose: Belatacept (BELA) used for maintenance immunosuppression (IS) after kidney transplant (KT) shows similar graft and patient survival, but improved allograft function, despite more rejection…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Analysis of Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys: An Update
D. Bahl¹, N. Mehta², Y. A. Qazi³
¹School of Medicine, St. George's University, West Indies, Grenada, ²University of California, Berkeley, Torrance, CA, ³School of Medicine, Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, the discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Stone Former Donors at the University of Minnesota
A. Khan¹, S. M. Riad¹, D. Keys¹, S. Jackson¹, A. Matas²
¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: As the National kidney shortage continues to rise, efforts to expand the donor pool by utilizing living kidneys from stone-forming donors have become widely…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Machine-Learning Approach for Estimating Likelihood of Transplant Benefit from Older-Donor Kidneys
T. Pruett¹, P. Martin², D. Gupta³
¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²University of Texas, Austin, TX, ³McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin, TX
*Purpose: There is a shortage of transplantable kidneys in the US. Yet, the discard rate among older donors (55+) is approx. 38% per year. The…