Articles tagged "Pediatric"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes After Abo Incompatible Pediatric Liver Transplantation are Comparable to Abo Identical/compatible Transplant
C. Lemoine, K. Brandt, R. Superina
Division of Transplant and Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: In order to evaluate if the incidence of vascular and biliary complications as well as patient and graft survival in ABO incompatible (ABOi) liver…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function in Pediatric Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
M. MacConmara, J. Shah, L. de Gregorio, D. Desai, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang
Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: Pediatric recipients of living donor kidneys have a low rate of delayed graft function (DGF). The aim of this study was to examine the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Association of Immune Cell Markers with Adverse Outcomes in the First 6 Months Post-pediatric Heart Transplantation
J. Chen¹, D. Salerno², H. Corbo¹, S. Shah³, A. Rothkopf⁴, I. D. Lytrivi⁴
¹Department of Pharmacy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Department of Pharmacy, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, ³College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY, ⁴Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*Purpose: Immunosuppression titration post-orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) is limited to trough level monitoring and does not provide data pertaining to overall state of immunosuppression. Additional…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Understanding Delays to Pediatric Kidney Transplant Wait-List Activation: Providers and Families Weigh in
C. M. Farkas-Skiles¹, A. Feinsinger², R. Pines³, A. D. Waterman⁴
¹Pediatric Nephrology, UCLA Mattel Children Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, ²Medicine and Philosophy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ³Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, ⁴Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Since timely access to kidney transplant mediates mortality of children with kidney disease, we examined which factors most commonly affect providers’ decision-making to delay…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Thrombotic and Hemorrhagic Complications Associated with Postoperative Anticoagulation After Pediatric Liver Transplantation
C. Lemoine, K. Brandt, R. Superina
Division of Transplant and Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: In order to determine the efficacy of post-liver transplant (LT) anticoagulation protocols in reducing the occurrence of arterial thrombosis (HAT) and other vascular complications…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Paired Exchange in Children in the United-states
J. Hogan¹, A. G. Thomas², J. Verbesey³, D. L. Segev⁴
¹Transplant Research Center, Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Department of Surgery, Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ⁴Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidney paired exchange (KPE) plays an increasing role in the landscape of adult living donor transplant (LDTx) in the US. LDTx is the treatment…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Should We Worry About Covid-19 Infection in Pediatric SOT?
U. Ekong¹, S. Paul¹, S. Royal², J. Chahine³, N. Yazigi¹, S. Kaufman¹, K. Khan¹, C. Matsumoto¹, A. Kroemer¹, T. Fishbein¹
¹Surgery, Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC, ²Pediatrics, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ³Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
*Purpose: We describe the clinical presentation & immune response to COVID-19 infection in pediatric SOT.*Methods: Medical records of COVID-19 PCR+ or seropositive patients were reviewed…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Maternal Perinatal Condition and Neonatal Growth and Development After Renal Transplantation
X. Feng, T. Song, Q. Zhong, J. Zeng, X. Wang, Y. Fan, Z. Huang, T. Lin
Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, Organ Transplantation Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Although pregnancy and delivery after kidney transplantation have been reported in many studies , it is still little known about growth and development of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Perivenular Fibrosis After Pediatric Liver Transplant
J. Lew, S. Cho, S. Feng, E. R. Perito
UCSF, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Graft fibrosis is a concerning long-term complication after pediatric liver transplant (LT) and though perivenular (PV) fibrosis is common, its likelihood of progression and…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Monitoring and PTLD Detection with B Cell Receptor Repertoire Analysis in a Large Prospective Pediatric Cohort
K. Jackson¹, O. Martinez², S. Krams², M. Robien³, M. Lapasaran², B. Armstrong⁴, C. Twist⁵, K. Weinberg⁶, D. Gratzinger¹, B. Tam¹, M. Sever⁴, M. Brown³, D. Bernstein⁶, C. Esquivel², S. D. Boyd¹
¹Department of Pathology, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA, ²Department of Surgery/Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA, ³NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Rho, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Roswell Park, Buffalo, NY, ⁶Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) remains a serious problem in the pediatric transplant population. The Clinical Trials of Organ Transplantation in Children (CTOT-C)-06 is a…