2018 American Transplant Congress
Optimizing Outcomes with a Collaborative Approach after Kidney Transplant in Hepatitis C-Positive Recipients Receiving Hepatitis C-Positive Grafts
Piedmont Transplant Institute, Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta, GA.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the multidisciplinary approach to HCV treatment in HCV+ kidney recipients receiving HCV+ grafts. METHODS: Single center review of treatment and outcomes in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Defining Response to Standard of Care Treatment in Kidney Recipients with Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Role of C1q-Binding Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies
Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France.
A major hurdle to improving clinical care in kidney transplantation is the lack of biomarkers of the response to antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) treatment. We investigated…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Utility and Futility of Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Liver Transplant Recipients
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a therapeutic modality used to treat refractory hypoxemia, and help support cardiogenic shock. These conditions are seen in liver transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Fate of Older Candidates Referred for Kidney Transplantation
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
Background: Older ESRD/CKD patients have reduced access to transplantation compared to younger counterparts as measured by waitlisting and transplantation rates. This is true even in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Inter-Correlations between Psycho-Social Pre-Transplant Determinants of Post-Transplant Kidney Allograft Function
Transplant Services, UTMB, Galveston, TX.
Psycho-social factors are common in patients with advanced and end stage kidney disease and they may be associated with post kidney transplant outcomes. The aim…2018 American Transplant Congress
Does the End Justify the Means? An Analysis of Outcomes in Recipients of Combined Kidney/Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) Transplants and Comparison to Standard of Care (SOC) Patients
1Northwestern U, Chicago; 2U Louisville, Louisville.
Eliminating the long term costs and side effects of immunosuppression (IS) is a compelling reason to pursue transplant tolerance. Tolerance in kidney transplant (KTx) pts…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hospital Readmission Patterns in the First Year after Kidney Transplantation: A Twelve-Year, Single-Center Experience
Transplant Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Purpose: The majority of studies examining hospital readmissions (HR) after kidney transplantation (KT) focus on 30-day HR rates using multi-institutional data with non-uniform clinical protocols.…2018 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced Recovery after Renal Transplant Surgery Using a Transversus Abdominis Plane Block is Associated with Decreased Hospital Length of Stay
Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
BACKGROUNDThe transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block reduces pain and opioid consumption following renal transplant surgery, but its impact on hospital length of stay (LOS) remains…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Providing Care Locally Compared to at a Transplant Center for Pre-And Posttransplant Liver Patients
There is a potential to improve patient satisfaction as well as access to liver transplantation (LT). AIM: This study evaluated outcomes of LT recipients whose…2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes after Kidney Transplant (KTx) from Deceased Donors (DD) Aged ≥ 70
Background:There has been an increase in DD aged 70 or greater and transplant centers are reluctant to accept these organs. The aim of this study…
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