Articles tagged "Pregnancy"

2021 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-institutional Study of Renal Outcomes in Uterus Transplantation
D. Sawinski¹, L. Johannesson², J. Kristen³, J. Fronek³, P. Porrett⁴
¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Pregnancy and calcineurin inhibitor-based immunosuppression represent potential renal stressors for uterus transplant (UTx) recipients, many of whom have Mayer-Rokitanksy-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome and associated renal…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes in 108 Heart Transplant Recipients
L. A. Coscia¹, A. Yusuf¹, S. Rao², S. Constantinescu³, M. J. Moritz⁴
¹Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Virginia Heath System, Charlottesville, VA, ³Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe 185 pregnancies in 108 heart transplant recipients.*Methods: Data regarding conceptions occurring between June 1987 and Dec…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Successive Pregnancies in Kidney Transplant Recipients
S. Rao¹, L. Coscia², S. Constantinescu³, M. J. Moritz⁴
¹Medicine, University of Virginia Heath System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA, ³Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
*Purpose: Pregnancy after transplant is considered high risk; nevertheless female kidney transplant (KT) recipients may have several post-transplant pregnancies. The aim of this study was…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pregnancy on Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Propensity Score-Matched Study
T. Abe, A. Taniguchi, M. Kawamura, S. Nakazawa, T. Kato, R. Imamura, N. Nonomura
Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
*Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate whether the experience of pregnancy and delivery would be associated with poor maternal outcome among kidney transplant recipients.*Methods: A…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Sensitization via Pregnancy Generates Alloantibody and Cross-Reactive Xeno-Antibody in a Non-Human Primate Model
J. Yoon, M. Manook, Z. Fitch, R. Schmitz, A. Choi, A. M. Jackson, S. Knechtle, J. Kwun
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
*Purpose: Women are disproportionately represented among highly sensitized waitlist candidates and within HLA-incompatible transplantation programs. Due to difficulties obtaining compatible donors, sensitized patients are seen…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Twin Pregnancies after Liver Transplantation
L. A. Coscia¹, A. Yusuf¹, S. Rao², S. Constantinescu³, M. J. Moritz⁴
¹Transplant Pregnancy Registry International, Philadelphia, PA, ²Medicine, University of Virginia Heath System, Charlottesville, VA, ³Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe twin pregnancy outcomes in female liver transplant recipients.*Methods: Data were collected by the Transplant Pregnancy Registry…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Maternal Peripartum Complications in Solid Organ Transplantation
R. X. Wang¹, G. S. Lee-Riddle², D. O. Walls³, D. S. Goldberg⁴, P. L. Abt²
¹Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, ⁴Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Previous studies examining pregnancy related complications after solid organ transplantation (SOT) primarily relied on voluntary registries and meta-analyses. Herein, we investigated maternal delivery outcomes…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Heart Transplant Outcomes in Adults with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
P. Genyk, K. Yang, G. Liu, J. Nattiv, P. Banankhah, P. Kingsford, J. Li, S. Nuno, K. Pandya, A. Vaidya, E. DePasquale
Department of Cardiology, Keck Medical Center of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: We aimed to evaluate long-term heart transplant (HT) outcomes in adults with peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) and compare them to all other heart transplant recipients.*Methods:…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Bilateral Lung Transplantation Combined with Cardiac Correction in Treatment of Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Complicated with Eisenmenger Syndrome in Puerpera, a Feasible Strategy for Future?
J. Huang, Z. Wang, J. Chen
Wuxi Lung Transplant Center, Wuxi People's Hospital affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China
*Purpose: Though pregnancy is not recommended for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in current guidelines, some patients do stick to parturition due to varies…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Patient Attitudes Regarding Contraception and Pregnancy after Transplantation
P. Puerzer¹, T. McIntosh², C. Sammons³, N. Casciello³, T. Fallah³, M. Norris³, M. Sumit⁴, J. DuBois⁵, A. Iltis⁶, D. Sawinski¹
¹Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Washington Univ in St Louis, St Louis, MO, ³Pharmacy, Hospital of the Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Columbia Univ, New York, NY, ⁵Washington Univ in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, ⁶Wake Forest Univ, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: Professional society recommendations regarding contraception and pregnancy after transplantation exist but little is known about patient attitudes.*Methods: We conducted a survey of female transplant…