2016 American Transplant Congress
Vascular Composite Allotransplantation Collaborative Initiative Biobank: Bringing the Power Back to Research.
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Refining Vascular Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) into a useful therapeutic option for patients in need of tissue reconstruction depends on the availability of biological specimens and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Natural Language Processing Methods Allow Reliable Extraction of Banff Scores and Grades.
Objective: National Data are sparse with regard to pathology of rejection. Incorporating biopsy pathology grades and lesion scores into analyses requires manual extraction and entry…2016 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation in the Setting of Chronic Opiate Use.
Purpose: To determine the impact and correlation of pre-transplant chronic opiate use with post-transplant chronic opiate use, resource utilization, and patient survival in addition to…2016 American Transplant Congress
One-Year Graft Loss Risk in Kidney Transplants – A Big Data Approach.
MUSC, Charleston, SC; IBM Corp., Armonk.
Background Predictive models using national data are limited by lack of evolving patient level data. A Big Data approach using both static and dynamic variables…2016 American Transplant Congress
Older Patients Reliably Participate in Automated Living Donor Follow Up Rather Than Avoiding This New Technology.
Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Introduction: UCSF implemented automated living donor follow up to increase access to patients, improve communication, efficiency of data collection, and UNOS compliance. Using a modified…2016 American Transplant Congress
Post-Transplant Vaccine Initiative Collaboration (VIC) in a Multidisciplinary, Transplant Ambulatory Setting.
1Colonia Natural Pharmacy, Colonia; 2Medicine/Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
Introduction We describe the implementation of a vaccine initiative in an ambulatory transplant setting.Methods In 2014, Hahnemann University Hospital (HUH) and Colonia Natural Pharmacy transplant…2016 American Transplant Congress
Young Recipients Receiving Kidneys from Older Donors Have Poorer Allograft Outcomes.
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: An increasing number of marginal donors are being used in order to expand the donor pool. Age is one of the major criteria in…2015 American Transplant Congress
Descriptive Analysis of Patients Who Travel Away from Home for Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
Aim: Given the current geographic disparities in access to liver transplantation (OLT), there is a segment of the population that may travel to different areas…2015 American Transplant Congress
Use of MELD Exception Points in Patients With Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Metastases: Variable Use and Proposed Criterion for Approval
Purpose: Most patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have preserved hepatic synthetic function, and their providers may seek increased waitlist priority via MELD exception points.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Renal Retransplantation in Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant Recipients
National Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation Unit, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Introduction:Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation(SPK) is standard of care in selected patients with end stage renal failure secondary to diabetes mellitus. There is little literature examining…
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