2019 American Transplant Congress
Primary Indications and Waitlist Status for Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplants
*Purpose: Since 1989, living donor liver transplantation (LD) has been used for a selected population and has shown improved long-term graft survival. The aim was…2019 American Transplant Congress
Slowed Progression of Maximal Intimal Thickening by Intravascular Ultrasound after Initiation of Sirolimus
1Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, 2University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL
*Purpose: Evidence in adult heart transplant (HT) patients (pt) shows that initiating sirolimus (SRL) slows progression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) measured by intravascular ultrasound…2019 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy and Safety of Everolimus in Pediatric Renal Transplantation
*Purpose: There are scarce evidence on the efficacy and safety of everolimus (EVR)-based regimens in pediatric kidney transplantation (KT).*Methods: This single center retrospective cohort analyzed…2019 American Transplant Congress
Metabolic Liver Transplantation – Can We Afford It?
*Purpose: Despite major improvement in medical and nutritional care of pediatric patients suffering from intoxication inherited metabolic disorders, their long term outcomes remain guarded. Liver…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease Growth Failure Threshold on Waitlist Mortality in Children Awaiting Liver Transplant
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: To examine the impact on waitlist mortality of Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD)’s incorporation of growth failure (GF) as a threshold variable—present or absent…2019 American Transplant Congress
IgG4 Subclass Class 2 Donor Specific Antibody (DSA) is Associated with Subclinical Rejection in Stable Pediatric Liver Transplant (LT) Recipients with Normal Liver Tests
*Purpose: DSA is a known biomarker of allograft rejection, yet injury phenotype and potential differ across organs. Among pediatric LT recipients entering iWITH (NCT01638559), an…2019 American Transplant Congress
Use of Marginal Liver Donors in Pediatric Transplantation: Diverse Profiles of Use in Major Transplant Centers
*Purpose: Pediatric liver transplantation is highly specialized only a small number of centers have consistent large volume experience. We tested the hypothesis that large volume…2019 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes after Declining Increased Infectious Risk Kidney Offers for Pediatric Candidates in the United States
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Kidneys from donors at increased infectious risk for disease transmission (IRDs) confer substantial survival benefit in adults, yet the impact of IRDs in pediatric…2019 American Transplant Congress
Are Protocol Biopsies Necessary for Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients?
Pediatrics, UCSD, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Renal allograft survival indirectly correlates with acute rejection episodes. Subacute rejection is also associated with decreased graft survival. Protocol biopsies (bxs) have been implemented…2019 American Transplant Congress
Repeat Liver Transplantation after Failed First Transplant in Childhood: Development of a Retransplant Risk Index
*Purpose: Most morbidity and mortality after pediatric liver retransplantation (LRTx) occurs in the first 100 days. We studied factors associated with mortality and graft failure…
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