Articles tagged "Pediatric"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Mhealth Family Self-Management Intervention for Families of Transplanted Children
S. M. Lerret¹, R. White-Traut², B. Medoff-Cooper³, S. I. Ahamed⁴, P. Simpson⁵, R. Schiffman⁶
¹Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, ⁵Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁶University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
*Purpose: Nearly 2,000 children undergo solid organ transplant in the US annually. In our previous research with transplant families, parents reported difficulty coping with the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Studies of Blood Anellovirus DNA Prior to Acute Rejection or Major Infection Events in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients (PKTx)
R. Dandamudi, H. Gu, C. Goss, H. Gula, K. Wylie, V. Dharnidharka
Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Blood levels of the ubiquitous but non-pathogenic anellovirus (AnV) taxa have been postulated to represent a biomarker of the overall state of immunosuppression after…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Portal Vein Challenges in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: The Utility of Interposition Grafts as an Acceptable Management Strategy
R. Hogen, K. Etesami, J. Cervantes, Y. Kwon, S. Zielsdorf, J. Emamaullee, Y. Genyk
Division of Hepatobiliary and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: To examine our single center experience in the operative management of pediatric liver transplantation (LT) patients with challenging portal vein (PV) anomalies.*Methods: We retrospectively…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Drivers of Graft Failure in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Change Over Time
E. Benz¹, D. Schaubel², S. Amaral¹
¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Short-term pediatric kidney transplant outcomes have improved over time with advanced surgical techniques and better immunosuppression, but long-term graft outcomes remain suboptimal - concerning…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Aligning Pediatric Waiting List and Post-Transplant Outcomes with the Adult Lung Allocation Score
M. Skeans¹, A. Wey¹, E. Lease², C. Lehr³, J. Alcorn⁴, R. Goff⁴, D. Stewart⁴, M. Valapour³
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ⁴UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Lung allocation is moving toward a continuous distribution framework (CDF), with components for waitlist (WL) urgency and post-transplant (PT) survival, as computed in LAS.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of the Kidney Transplant Journey on Patient’s and Parent’s Identities and Self-Management
J. C. Dunbar¹, E. E. Bascom², W. Pratt², J. Snyder², J. M. Smith³, A. H. Pollack³
¹University of Washington Information School, Seattle, WA, ²University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ³Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Describe the experiences of pediatric patients and their families after kidney transplant. Our qualitative study aimed to understand (1) how these individuals describe and…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Adults Undergoing First Time Liver Transplantation with Biliary Atresia: An Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database
E. Hsu¹, J. Perkins², S. P. Horslen¹, A. A. Dick¹, N. M. Blondet¹, J. D. Reyes²
¹Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ²Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: Although biliary atresia (BA) is the most common indication for liver transplantation in children, there is no published data on outcomes for individuals who…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors Predicting Outcomes in Long-Term Pediatric Kidney Transplant Graft Survival
A. Anand, T. H. Malik, J. Dunson, M. F. McDonald, C. R. Christmann, N. Nguyen Galvan, C. O'Mahony, J. A. Goss, P. R. Srivaths, E. D. Brewer, A. Rana
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Pediatric kidney transplant recipients generally have good outcomes post-transplantation; however, the younger age and longer lifespan after transplantation in the pediatric population make understanding…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Galectin-3 Levels in Pediatric Cholestatic Liver Disease
D. Yoeli¹, Z. Wang¹, Y. Luo², A. Chaidez², M. A. Adams¹, C. A. Huang¹, C. L. Mack², N. Navarro Alvarez¹
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Biliary atresia (BA) and other cholestatic liver diseases (CLD) are the most common indications for liver transplantation in children. Research on galectin-3, a protein…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor Use in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients: A Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium Study
R. M. Engen¹, P. L. Weng², W. Shih³, H. Patel⁴, K. Richardson⁵, S. Dowdrick⁶, I. Ashoor⁷, J. Misurac⁸, A. Z. Traum⁹, M. Semanik¹⁰, N. G. Jain¹¹, R. Sreedharan¹²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ⁵Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ⁶Penn State Health, Hershey, PA, ⁷Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, ⁸University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁹Harvard University, Boston, MA, ¹⁰University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, ¹¹Columbia University, New York, NY, ¹²Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
*Purpose: Neutropenia is common after pediatric kidney transplant and is associated with an increased risk of bacterial infection, allograft loss, and death. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor…