Articles tagged "Outcome"

2020 American Transplant Congress
TRANSFORM Study (NCT01950819): Application of the Ibox Clinical Trial Simulation Tool to Project Long-Term Kidney Allograft Outcome
G. Divard¹, O. Aubert¹, M. Raynaud¹, J. Pascual², F. Vincenti³, P. Bernhardt⁴, C. Legendre¹, A. Loupy¹, .. on behalf of TRANSFORM Investigators⁵
¹INSERM U970, Paris Transplant Group, Paris, France, ²Department of Nephrology, Hospital del Mar/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ³Department of Surgery/Kidney Transplant Service, University of California, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Research and Development, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland, ⁵TRANSFORM Investigators, Basel, Switzerland
*Purpose: The development of pharmaceutical agents in transplantation is currently limited by long waits for hard endpoints. We sought to use a risk stratification system…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Recipient and Donor Factors Associated with Post-Donation ESRD in Related White Living Kidney Donors
J. Wainright¹, A. Robinson¹, A. Wilk¹, D. Klassen², W. Cherikh¹, L. Cartwright¹, D. Stewart¹
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA, ²Chief Medical Officer, UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: We studied post-donation ESRD in white first-degree related living kidney donors (RLKDs) in the US between 1994 and 2018 (n=45700); this study is the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous Heart Kidney Transplant Benefits are Concentrated in the Dialysis Dependent Population
B. I. Shaw¹, M. L. Samoylova¹, Z. W. Fitch¹, M. Bishawi¹, R. Schmitz¹, S. J. Kesseli¹, A. S. Barbas¹, C. B. Patel², S. L. Sanoff², L. M. McElroy¹
¹Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: With ongoing growth of simultaneous organ transplant and increased attention to allocation policy, we examined trends in simultaneous heart-kidney (SHK) transplantation outcomes over the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pilot Donor App Users Maintain Higher Transplant Rates Than Matched Controls
L. R. Herbst, A. D. Love, P. Chiang, K. Kumar, B. King, A. Massie, J. Garonzik Wang, D. L. Segev, A. M. Cameron
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: We previously conducted a pilot study demonstrating that patients who used the Donor App (DA) were 6.6 times more likely to generate a live…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation of Donors and Recipients’ with Situs Inversus Totalis: Case Reports and Literature Review
L. Del Angel Diaz, A. Simioni, G. D'Amico, Q. Liu, K. Hashimoto, M. Fujiki, B. Eghtesad, F. Aucejo, K. Sasaki, C. Kwon, C. Miller, C. Quintini, T. Diago-Uso
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Situs Inversus Totalis (SIT) is a rare condition affecting 0.1% of the general population. It was historically a contraindication for LTx and graft donation.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Adenovirus Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Case Series
S. Anjan, Y. Natori, M. Raja, J. Camargo, J. Simkins, M. Morris, A. Fernandez, G. Ciancio, L. Chen, G. Burke, M. Ortigosa-Goggins, J. Pagan, A. Mattiazzi, G. Guerra, L. Abbo
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Adenovirus (AdV) is associated with poor outcomes in immunosuppressed patients and data on incidence and management in kidney transplant (KT) recipients is limited. *Methods:…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Increased Graft Survival Following Implementation of the Kidney Allocation Score
M. L. Samoylova¹, B. I. Shaw¹, W. Irish², S. J. Kesseli¹, A. Connor¹, A. S. Barbas¹, L. McElroy¹, K. V. Ravindra¹
¹Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, ²Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: The Kidney Allocation Score (KAS) was developed to improve matching of donor and recipients; we examine the effect of this change on transplantation practice…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Taking on Pediatric Liver Tumors – Beyond Hepatoblastoma
U. Ekong, N. Yazigi, K. Khan, S. Kaufman, J. Guerra, R. Girlanda, J. Hawksworth, A. Kroemer, C. Matsumoto, T. Fishbein
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Background. Hepatic angiosarcomas, hepatocellular carcinoma, hemangioendothelioma, and rhabdomyosarcoma of the bile ducts are very rare tumors in children with historically poor prognosis. Median survival…
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…