Articles tagged "Pediatric"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Split Liver Transplantation: Single Center Experience.
A. Elsabbagh,^1,2 C. Williams,¹ R. Girlanda,¹ C. Desai,¹ J. Hawksworth,¹ A. Kroemer,¹ C. Matsumoto,¹ T. Fishbein.¹
¹MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; ²Gastroenterology Surgical Center, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
Background: Split liver transplantation allows for expansion of the pool of organs for pediatric liver transplantation.Objectives: To assess overall outcomes in pediatric split liver transplantation…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Solid Phase Assay Demonstrates High Rates of Allosensitization in Pediatric Heart Recipients.
W. Zuckerman,¹ B. Feingold,² A. Zeevi,² C. Bentlejewski,² L. Addonizio,¹ E. Blume,³ C. Canter,⁴ A. Dipchand,⁵ D. Hsu,⁶ R. Shaddy,⁷ W. Mahle,⁸ K. Much,⁹ B. Armstrong,⁹ D. Ikle,⁹ H. Diop,¹⁰ J. Odim,¹⁰ S. Webber.¹¹
¹Columbia Univ., NYC; ²Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ³Boston Children's Hospital, Boston; ⁴Washington Univ., St. Louis; ⁵Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada; ⁶Children's Hospital, Montefiore, NYC; ⁷Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia; ⁸CHOA, Atlanta; ⁹Rho, Chapel Hill; ¹⁰NIAID/NIH, Bethesda; ¹¹Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville.
Allosensitization is a risk factor for rejection, vasculopathy and graft loss. CTOTC-04 is a prospective study assessing the impact of sensitization on a composite of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Vaccination of the Pediatric Patient After Transplantation – Attitudes and Knowledge of the General Pediatrician.
B. Gonzalez,¹ S. Worley,² A. Tang,² C. Saracusa,¹ J. Goldfarb.¹
¹Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleveland, OH; ²Quantitative Heath Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleveland, OH.
Background: Studies have shown that compliance with post-transplant vaccinations in children is low. Postulated reasons for such low vaccination rates include the lack of familiarity…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Donor Procurement Characteristics in Contemporary Live Donor Pediatric Renal Transplantation Outcomes: An Analysis of 282 Cases.
Z. Ahmed,¹ R. Uwechue,¹ P. Chandak,¹ J. Stojanovic,² N. Kessaris,¹ N. Mamode.¹
¹Abdominal Transplant Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom; ²Paediatric Nephrology, Evelina Children's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Previous registry analyses have reported inferior graft survival rates when using laparoscopically procured organs and those with the greatest size mismatches between donor and recipient.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes in Pediatric Live-Donor Liver Transplantation.
N. Celik,¹ A. Ganoza,² F. Vyas,¹ J. Squires,³ V. Venkat,³ G. Bond,¹ K. Soltys,¹ R. Sindhi,¹ R. Squires,³ A. Humar,² G. Mazariegos.¹
¹Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery at UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; ³Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, CHP of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.
Aim: To determine the incidence of allograft and medical factors characterizing optimal patient outcomes 3 year or more after pediatric live-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Methods:…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Polyomavirus (BK) Treatment and Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients: A >10 Year Single Center Retrospective Experience.
R. Liverman,¹ E. Kraus,¹ R. Garro,² B. Warshaw,² P. Winterberg,² R. George.²
¹Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; ²Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
BK viremia (BKV) is a serious infectious complication after kidney transplantation and can lead to BK nephropathy (BKN) and allograft loss. We reviewed our experience…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Dilution of Patient Sera Improves MFI Correlation with Complement Fixation in Solid Phase Assay Assessment.
C. Castleberry,¹ D. Phelan,² K. Simpson,¹ T. Mohanakumar,³ C. Canter.¹
¹Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; ²Histocompatibility Laboratory, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO; ³Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
Background: Median Fluorescent Intensity (MFI) by solid phase assays (SPA) has been used to determine risk of donor-recipient reaction prior to transplant. Inconsistency of this…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Critical Care Education Impacts Pediatric Organ Donation.
D. Lebovitz,¹ T. Nakagawa,² C. Wright.³
¹Critical Care, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH; ²Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest, NC; ³Lifelink of Florida, Tampa, FL.
Objective: Pediatric donation impacts the disparity between organs needed and organs available for transplantation. We evaluated if a regional educational effort on pediatric donation for…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Should HLA DR and DQ Eplet Mismatching Replace Traditional DR and DQ Mismatching for Deceased Donor Offers in Pediatric Renal Transplantation?
C. Bryan, V. Chadha, B. Warady.
Midwest Transplant Network, Kansas City, KS; Nephrology, Childrens Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO; Nephrology, Childrens Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO.
Introduction. It is now appreciated that greater HLA DR mismatching of the first pediatric kidney transplantation is associated with higher degrees of sensitization, lower rates…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Children Listed as Status 1B for Liver Transplantation Are Disenfranchised by MARS Therapy.
A. Bakshi,¹ M. Kueht,¹ A. Rana,^1,2 A. Akcan Arikan,³ J. Goss.^1,2
¹Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation and Hepatobiliry Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; ²Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; ³Pediatric Medicine, Intensive Care, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX.
Acute exacerbations of chronic liver failure in the pediatric population require advanced ICU care in order to survive to transplantation (OLT). Often, the patients are…