2015 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation of Neonatal En-Bloc Kidneys: Do They Grow and Are They Subject to Hyperfiltration Injury?
UC Davis Transplant Center, Sacramento, CA.
Importance:Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) kidney donation is rare but a potentially significant kidney source. Concerns with using these small kidneys include the risk for…2015 American Transplant Congress
Identifying the “Operational Tolerant” Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipient by Cytometry by Time-of-Flight
Liver allografts are known to be well tolerated and indeed, some recipients of liver allografts retain stable graft function in the absence of immunosuppression. The…2015 American Transplant Congress
Donor Age and Late Rejection Are Associated With the Development of Graft Coronary Artery Vasculopathy in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Purpose: Graft coronary artery vasculopathy (GCV) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in pediatric heart transplant (HT) recipients, and in fact…2015 American Transplant Congress
New Insights in Clinical and Genetic Determinants of Longitudinal Dose-Corrected CNI Exposure in Children After Renal Transplantation
Purpose: Calcineurin-inhibitors (CNI) have a narrow therapeutic index and dosing is difficult due to inter- and intra-individual variation in pharmacokinetics (PK). Polymorphisms in genes involved…2015 American Transplant Congress
Implementation of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cytomegalovirus Prevention in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation
Cincinnati Children's, Cincinnati.
Optimal strategies to prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease after pediatric solid organ transplantation (SOT) in a cost effective manner are uncertain. We evaluated the frequency of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Diseases: Analysis of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Databases
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.
Purpose: To analyze long term patient survival outcomes after primary LTx for metabolic disease in children <21 years at CHP (1981-2014) and the multi-center UNOS…2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Survival of Deceased Donor Kidneys from Children Under Ten
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Background: The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has adopted a new allocation algorithm that uses a Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) based on 10…2015 American Transplant Congress
Increased Vascular Stiffness in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients Despite Normal Kidney Function, Blood Pressure, and Body Mass Index
1Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL; 2Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) imparts enormous cardiovascular (CV) risk that is only partially improved by renal transplantation. We sought to understand the determinants of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Follow-Up After Conversion from Twice-Daily Tacrolimus Formulation to Once-Daily Tacrolimus Formulation in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
PurposeTacrolimus is one of the most frequently used immunosuppressants in pediatric kidney transplantation (KT) as in adult. In Pediatric kidney recipients, it is more important…2015 American Transplant Congress
Is Transplant Volume Associated With Survival in Pediatric Liver Transplants?
Background. Center specific volume has been shown to correlate with outcomes for many procedures in the adult population. The current study was conducted to determine…
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