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Articles tagged "Pediatric"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Home Dried Blood Spot Monitoring; a New Tool for Measuring Variability in Tacrolimus Blood Levels Over Time

    A. Al-Uzri, K. Freeman, K. Clark, L. Bleyle, S. Iragorri, R. Jenkins, D. Rozansky, D. Koop.

    Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR.

    PURPOSE: The measurement of variability in Tacrolimus (TAC) blood trough levels has been proposed to reflect the consistency with medication intake and adherence. A standard…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Is Transplant Volume Associated With Survival in Pediatric Liver Transplants?

    W. Cherikh,1 H. Kim,2 A. Wilk,1 C. Flavin,1 E. Brewer.3

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; 2Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Baylor 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 study was conducted to determine…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Elevated Cancer Risk Among US Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    E. Yanik,1 J. Smith,2 M. Shiels,1 C. Clarke,3 C. Lynch,4 A. Kahn,5 L. Koch,6 K. Pawlish,7 E. Engels.1

    1Natl. Cancer Inst., Bethesda, MD; 2Seattle Children's Hosp., Seattle, WA; 3Cancer Prev. Inst. of CA, Fremont, CA; 4U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 5NY St. Cancer Reg., Albany, NY; 6IL St. Cancer Reg., Springfield, IL; 7NJ St. Cancer Reg., Trenton, NJ.

    Among pediatric transplant recipients, the effects of transplantation and immunosuppression on cancer risk may be unique from those observed in the adult transplant population. No…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Utility of Non-Invasive Intra Abdominal Pressure Monitoring After Pediatric Abdominal Organ Transplantation

    E. Harkin,1 M. McLeod,1 K. Khan,2 A. Natarajan.3

    1Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; 2Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar-Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; 3Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Physiology, MedStar-Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.

    Intra abdominal pressure (IAP) is monitored in critically ill children because intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) may be associated with renal dysfunction and adverse outcomes.We retrospectively examined…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Preliminary Results of a Novel Induction Regimen Using Anti-Thymocyte Globulin (Rabbit) (rATG) Plus Basiliximab in a Pediatric Patient Population Undergoing Kidney Transplantation

    D. Halleran,1 S. Schurman, T. Welch, V. Whittaker.

    1Surgery, State University New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY; 2Pediatric Nephrology, State University New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

    Purpose: We report the outcomes from single center experience with the novel induction regimen using rATG (3 mg/kg) in divided doses given on operative day…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Liver Transplantation for Children With Autoimmune Hepatitis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: An Analysis of the UNOS Database

    J. Jossen,1 R. Annunziato,2 J. Chu,1 H.-S. Kim,2 S. Sheflin,1 J. Lai,1 R. Arnon.1

    1Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; 2Fordham University, New York.

    Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are progressive immune-mediated inflammatory diseases that may require liver transplant (LT). Outcomes in children undergoing LT for…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation at KFSH&RC – Implementation of the Laparoscopic Retrieval in a High Volume Center

    M. Boehnert, M. Shagrani, T. Al Goufi, D. Broering.

    Organ Transplant Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

    Since the first successful pediatric liver transplantation was performed in 1967 the survival rate increased from 30 % to currently above 90 %. This is…
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