Articles tagged "Pediatric"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Pre-Transplant Immunization: A Qualitative Study of Pediatric Liver-Transplant Stakeholders
A. G. Feldman¹, R. Marsh², A. Kempe³, M. Morris²
¹Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ³Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*Purpose: Less than 30% of pediatric liver transplant recipients are up-to-date on age-appropriate immunizations at the time of transplant despite being at high-risk for infections…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Have Graft Outcomes Improved for Pediatric Transplant Recipients Since the Implementation the Kidney Allocation System
C. S. Bell¹, S. Hebert², A. De Golovine³, R. Swinford¹
¹Division of Pediatric Nephrology & Hypertension, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth - Houston, Houston, TX, ²Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, ³Renal Diseases &Hypertension, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth - Houston, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The new kidney allocation system (KAS) that utilizes a Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) in matching transplant recipients to donors was implemented in December…
2019 American Transplant Congress
An International Multicentre Validation Study of the Toronto Listing Criteria for Pediatric Intestinal Transplant
A. J. Roberts¹, P. W. Wales², S. V. Beath³, H. M. Evans¹, J. Hind⁴, T. Wong⁵, D. Mercer⁶, J. Yap⁷, C. Belza⁸, D. Grant⁹, Y. Avitzur¹⁰
¹Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Starship Child Health - Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, ²Division of General & Thoracic Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto,, Group for Improvement of Intestinal Function and Treatment (GIFT), Transplant Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³The Liver Unit, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁴Paediatric Liver, GI & Nutrition Centre, King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ⁵The Liver Unit, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁶Children’s Hospital and Medical Centre, Omaha, NE, ⁷Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁸Group for Improvement of Intestinal Function and Treatment (GIFT), Transplant Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁹Department of Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Group for Improvement of Intestinal Function and Treatment (GIFT), Transplant Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Current intestinal transplantation (IT) listing criteria from 2001 have limited ability to predict the need for IT in the current era of intestinal failure…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Low Dose Thymoglobulin Has No Disadvantages to Standard Higher Dose: A Report of the Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium
I. Ashoor¹, R. Beyl², C. Gupta³, A. Jain⁴, S. Kiessling⁵, H. Patel⁶, J. Sherbotie⁷, D. J. Weaver Jr⁸, R. Zahr⁹, V. Dharnidharka¹⁰
¹LSU Health, New Orleans, LA, ²Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, ³Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, ⁴Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, ⁵University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ⁶Nationwide Children's Hospital, Colombus, OH, ⁷University of Utah SOM, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁸Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, NC, ⁹University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, ¹⁰Washington University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: What is not known is whether a lower Thymoglobulin (ATG) induction dose provides safe and effective immunosuppression compared to a “standard” higher dose in…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Timeline for Resuming Physical Activities after Renal Transplantation: A Mid West Pediatric Nephrology Consortium Study
P. Baddi¹, H. Patel², H. Janjua³, D. Y. Kim⁴, A. Jain⁵
¹Beaumont Children's Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, ²Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ³Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Children's Hospital of Michigan and Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ⁵Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: To assess the practice patterns of the timeline for safely resuming various physical activities after pediatric kidney transplant.*Methods: An anonymous web-based survey was distributed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Independent Risk Factors for Discard of Pediatric Liver Allografts
T. H. Malik¹, J. Goss², N. T. Galvan², M. L. Kueht II², A. Rana³
¹Department of Student Affairs, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Department of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ³Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify risk factors available at the time of initial DonorNet offer to predict discard of pediatric liver…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Heart En Bloc Thymus Cotransplantation in NHPs
J. O¹, W. Sommer², K. Pruner³, J. T. Paster⁴, I. M. Hanekamp¹, A. Dehnadi¹, I. Rosales¹, R. N. Smith¹, R. B. Colvin¹, G. Benichou¹, J. S. Allan¹, J. C. Madsen¹
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, MGH, Boston, MA, ²Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ³University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴MGH, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Tolerance of isolated cardiac allografts has never been achieved in NHPs. We investigated whether a cotransplanted, vascularized, donor thymus could induce tolerance of a…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Wait Time, Graft Quality and Outcome for Pediatric Kidney Recipients in the Post-Kidney Allocation System Era
P. Singer, K. Eng, L. Castellanos Reyes, C. Sethna, L. Teperman, E. Grodstein
Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY
*Purpose: Though a purpose of the kidney allocation system (KAS) enacted in 2014 was to prioritize the transplantation of highly sensitized recipients, we explored the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Treg Plasticity is Induced by ENV,HERV1_I and UPR Activation in De Novo Autoimmune Hepatitis
J. Yao¹, A. Ling¹, A. Arterbery¹, Y. Avitzur², S. Lobritto³, M. Martinez³, U. Ekong¹
¹Yale University, New Haven, CT, ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: FOXP3+regulatory T cells (Tregs) are not a terminally differentiated population & can, under specific environmental conditions, acquire the phenotype of effector T cells. We…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Growth and Function of En Bloc Kidney Transplantation: A Single-Center Experience
H. Mo¹, J. Ha¹, A. Han¹, S. Min¹, S. Min¹, S. Ahn¹, I. Ha², H. Kang², S. Kim³
¹Department of surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ²Pediatric Nephrology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of surgery, Myongji Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: To overcome organ shortage, using en bloc renal allografts is widely accepted strategy. In this study we review the results of en bloc kidney…