Articles tagged "Pediatric"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) DNAemia in EBV-Seronegative Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Recipients with EBV-Seropositive Donors
C. Burton,¹ C. Mabilangan,² J. Preiksaitis.²
¹Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ²Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Purpose: Since 2002, a pre-emptive approach to post-transplant lymhoproliferative disease prevention has been used at our center that includes EBV viral load (VL) monitoring in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
What's Normal? An Evaluation of Pediatric T Cell Markers in Healthy Controls
M. Sosniuk,¹ A. Halpin,^1,2,5,6,7 J. Wizniak,⁷ A. Szkotak,^6,7 S. Urschel,^1,2,5 L. Ionescu,^1,2,5 L. West.^1,2,3,4,5,6
¹Dept of Pediatrics, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ²Alberta Transplant Institute, Edmonton, Canada; ³Dept of MMI, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ⁴Dept of Surgery, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ⁵Canadian National Transplant Research Program, National, Canada; ⁶Dept of Laboratory Medicine, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ⁷Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Canada.
INTRODUCTION: Studying pediatric patients includes challenges such as difficulty obtaining samples, limited normal controls and small volumes. Standardized flow cytometry (FC) lymphocyte immunophenotyping panels are…
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Transplantation of Very Small Pediatric En Bloc Renal Allografts from Donors Less Than 8 Months of Age Have Similar Outcomes to Donors More Than 8 Months
S. Aquil,^1,2,3 N. Mitrou,^1,3 V. McAlister,^1,2,3 A. Sener,^1,2,3 P. Luke.^1,2,3
¹Departments of Surgery and Transplant, London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, ON, Canada; ²Microbiology and Immunology and Matthew Mailing Center for Transplant Studies, London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, ON, Canada; ³Departments of Surgery and Transplant, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Purpose: Few programs use kidneys from donors with body weight (BW) less than 10 kg or less than 8 months of age, for fear of…
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Early Life Stress Exposure and Cardio-Renal Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
M. Seifert, P. Perry, R. Romp, R. Mannon, J. Pollock.
UAB School of Medicine, Birmingham.
Purpose: Early life stress (ELS) has emerged as an important cardiovascular risk factor in adulthood, and can be characterized by exposure to adverse childhood experiences…
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Outcomes from 194 Consecutive Split Left Liver Transplants: Comparison of Living versus Deceased Donors
D. Adamson, P. Tabrizian, M. Parides, K. Iyer, J. Moon, J. Chu, R. Arnon, S. Florman.
Recanati/Miller Transplant Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
Methods:Analysis of long term outcomes of 194 consecutive left lateral segment grafts (LLS) including 94 living (LD) and 99 deceased (DD) donor grafts (1992 -…
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Using a Data Analytics Platform to Improve Patient Care in Pediatric Lung Transplantation
B. Scully,¹ K. Hosek,² D. Dash,² K. Carberry,^1,2 E. Melicoff,³ M. Gazzaneo,³ G. Mallory,³ J. Heinle.¹
¹Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; ²Outcomes and Impact Services, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; ³Pediatric Pulmonology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
PurposeLung transplantation in children remains challenging, requiring extensive infrastructure and expertise. At our institution, we have performed 191 pediatric lung transplants since 2002. We hypothesized…
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Prospective Analysis of EBV+ PTLD Incidence in Pediatric Transplant Recipients in the Modern Era
O. Martinez,¹ S. Krams,¹ M. Lapasaran,¹ S. Boyd,² D. Bernstein,² C. Twist,³ K. Weinberg,² D. Gratzinger,² B. Tan,² B. Armstrong,⁴ D. Ikle,⁴ M. Brown,⁵ M. Robien,⁵ C. Esquivel,¹ The CTOTC-06 Investigators.
¹Surgery/Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; ²Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; ³Roswell Park, Buffalo; ⁴Rho, Chapel Hill; ⁵NIAID/NIH, Bethesda.
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) remains a serious problem in the pediatric transplant population. The Clinical Trials of Organ Transplantation in Children (CTOTC)-06 is an NIAID-sponsored…
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A Single Center Transition of Care Model from Pediatric Heart Recipients to Adult Services Ongoing Study Model
S. Adams, M. Wigger.
Heart Transplant, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
This is an ongoing look at designing a pediatric to adult transition model and lessons learned over time. It has been shown that the first…
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Long Term IVIG Infusions for Treatment of Chronic Antibody Mediated Rejection in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Al-Uzri,¹ C. Shaut,² S. Iragorri,¹ R. Jenkins,¹ K. Richardson,¹ D. Rozansky,¹ M. Wright,¹ K. Roayaie.²
¹Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; ²Transplantation, Oregon Health & Scinece University, Porltand, OR.
Objectives: The emergence of donor specific antibodies (DSA) after kidney transplantation (Tx) is associated with lower graft survival. The benefit of using intravenous gamma globulin…
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Re-Hospitalization after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation in Steroid Avoidance Protocols
P. Verghese, S. Chinnakotla, D. Berglund, A. Matas, B. Chavers.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Data on re-hospitalization rates in steroid avoidance protocols is limited. We performed a single-center, retrospective cohort study of pediatric kidney transplant recipients between 2006 and…