2018 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Memory Patients Even without Detected Antibody Are at Rejection Risk in the First-Year after Heart Transplantation
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: Patients (pts) with prior transplants, blood transfusions, and pregnancies awaiting heart transplantation (HTx) have potential to develop circulating anti-HLA antibodies (HLA Abs). Pts at…2018 American Transplant Congress
Validation of the PROMIS-57 and PROMIS-29 Questionnaires in Kidney Transplant Recipients
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
Background: The Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) provides generalizable and universal measures of various domains of patient reported outcomes. The PROMIS-57 and PROMIS-29…2018 American Transplant Congress
Upper Limb Transplantation in the US: An Early Look at OPTN Data
In July 2014, the OPTN assumed responsibility for developing policy for vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA). This abstract presents initial data collected in upper limb transplantation…2018 American Transplant Congress
Higher Concordance in the Incidence of DGF and Post-Transplant BKV Infection among Recipients Receiving Mate Kidneys from the Same Deceased Donor: A Paired Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Analysis
Background: This study was undertaken to explore the degree to which donor variables impact rates of DGF, post-transplant CMV and BKV infections using a paired…2018 American Transplant Congress
Mycoplasma hominis Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Retrospective Case Series
1UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3UC-San Diego, San Diego.
Background: Mycoplasma hominis is increasingly recognized as a respiratory pathogen causing invasive disease in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. We reviewed the clinical characteristics, management…2018 American Transplant Congress
Excellent Long Term Outcomes Transplanting Single Pediatric Kidneys from Donors Five Years and Younger into Adult Recipients
Pediatric kidneys have been traditionally considered marginal organs for transplantation & are underutilized given concerns of poor outcomes. Furthermore, long term outcomes of single kidneys…2018 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation with or without Left Renal Vein Ligation: Comparative Study of 105 Cases
The presence of large spontaneous splenorenal shunts (SSRS) is a risk factor for low portal flow and graft dysfunction after liver transplantation (LT). Left renal…2018 American Transplant Congress
Tissue Talks: Graft´s Histological Findings 10 Years after Belatacept or CNI
The BENEFIT study demonstrated that 7 yrs after kidney transplantation (KT), mean eGFR, patient and graft survival, were significantly higher in the belatacept group than…2018 American Transplant Congress
Humoral Immune Response to Seasonal Influenza Infection in Transplant Recipients
Background: Little is known about the serologic response to natural influenza infection in transplant recipients. We describe the hemagglutinin antibody response to influenza A/H1N1 infection…2018 American Transplant Congress
Significant Alteration in Transplant Center Performance Assessment with Extended Patient Follow Up Time
IntroductionCurrent transplant center performance models focus on 1-year graft and patient survival as primary outcomes. This is despite that 2.5 year cohorts are used to…
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