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  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes of ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplantation in Children

    J. Stojanovic,1 A. Adamusiak,2 A. Waters,1 D. Bockenhauer,1 N. Kessaris,2 C. Barton,3 H. Jones,3 J. Taylor,3 S. Marks,1 N. Mamode.2

    1Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 2Department of Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 3Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

    Purpose: ABO blood group incompatible transplantation (ABOi) has become increasingly common over the last decade, in part due to a shortage of suitable deceased donor…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Incidence and Risks Associated With Clostridium Difficile Infection in the Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation Population: A Single-Center Retrospective Review

    L. Danziger-Isakov,1 J. Ciricillo,2 S. Blum,1 M.-O. Kim,1 C. Liu,1 G. Paulsen,1 J. Courter,1 D. Haslam.1

    1Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; 2Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH.

    Morbidity and mortality related to Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) has increased. Adult SOT data have reported risk factors for CDI. We interrogated the epidemiology of…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Are We Missing Cardiovascular Disease in Children Awaiting Liver Transplant?

    C. Villa,1 E. Hahn,1 J. Bucuvalas,2 K. Campbell,2 R. Hirsch,1 M. Lake,2 A. Lorts.1

    1Heart Institute, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; 2Pediatric Liver Care Center, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.

    Background: Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy, characterized by low systemic vascular resistance, is increasingly recognized as a complication of end stage liver disease. Yet optimal strategies to screen…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Association of Transplant Volume and Survival in Pediatric Kidney Transplants

    W. Cherikh,1 A. Wilk,1 C. Flavin,1 E. Brewer.2

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; 2Baylor Coll Med & Texas Children's Hosp., Houston, TX.

    Background. Center specific volume has been shown to correlate with outcomes for many procedures in the adult population. The current analysis was conducted to determine…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Sensitization Level at Retransplant Among Non-Sensitized Pediatric Recipients of First Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants Not Affected by DR Mismatch Level

    W. Cherikh,1 A. Wilk,1 H. McGehee,1 E. Brewer.2

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; 2Baylor Coll Med & Texas Children's Hosp, Houston, TX.

    Background. Most pediatric (ped) kidney (KI) recipients (recips) received 1- or 2-DR HLA mistmached (MM) deceased donor (DD) kidneys. The degree of HLA MM between…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    High Atherosclerotic Burden in Pediatric Lung Transplant Recipients

    A. Melk,1 D. Thurn-Valsassina,1 N. Schwerk,2 F. Brinkmann,2 C. Mueller.2

    1Department of Pediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 2Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

    Purpose: Pediatric lung transplant patients have been reported to have an increased incidence of hypertension. This incidence might be caused by the treatment with calcineurin…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Pediatric Liver Transplantation: An Outcome Analysis of a 30-Year Single Center Experience

    A. Weissenbacher,1 C. Margreiter,1 R. Oberhuber,1 M. Maglione,1 B. Cardini,1 J. Grahammer,1 T. Müller,2 R. Margreiter,1 S. Schneeberger.1

    1Department for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; 2Department of Paediatrics I, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.

    Introduction: In this study we aim to assess factors influencing long-term patient and graft survival as well as surgical parameters and risk factors influencing organ…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Early Relapse of Atypical HUS Following ABO Incompatible Living Related Paediatric Renal Re-Transplant Successfully Treated With Eculizumab

    J. Stojanovic,1 A. Adamusiak,2 N. Sebire,3 S. Marks,1 N. Mamode.2

    1Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 2Department of Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 3Department of Histopathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.

    Background. The female patient presented at 3 years of age with clinical features suggestive of aHUS confirmed genetically as complement factor I mutation (heterozygous for…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Longitudinal Follow-Up of Cardiovascular Comorbidity in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients – Results from the 4C-T Study

    A. Melk,1 D. Thurn-Valsassina,1 B. Schmidt,1 A. Duzova,2 B. Soezeri,3 A. Bayazit,4 S. Caliskan,5 U. Querfeld,6 K. Ažukaitis,7 E. Wuehl,7 F. Schaefer.7

    1Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 2Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey; 3Ege University Medical Faculty, Izmir, Turkey; 4Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey; 5Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medial School, Istanbul, Turkey; 6Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 7Centre for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany.

    Purpose: Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) carry an increased cardiovascular risk. Cardiovascular death is the second leading cause of death in children after renal…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Lung Biopsy Findings in Pediatric Lung Transplant Patients With Restrictive Physiology

    J. Blatter,1 F. White,2 A. Faro,1 P. Michelson,1 U. Boston,3 P. Eghtesady,3 S. Sweet.1

    1Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; 2Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; 3Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

    Background: Long-term survival in pediatric lung transplantation is limited by bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), but varieties of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) are poorly understood. Restrictive…
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