2017 American Transplant Congress
De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody Formation After Kidney Retransplant Is Associated with Specificity Against Class I.
Retransplant (RTx) patients are often sensitized due to donor-specific antibody (DSA) formation, with higher acute rejection rates during subsequent transplants vs patients without DSA. However,…2017 American Transplant Congress
Continuation of Immunosuppression Appears to Protect Against Allosensitization in Patients Listed for a Second Kidney Transplant.
Purpose: The current standard of practice after allograft loss is to discontinue immunosuppression (IS) to decrease complications related to prolonged exposure. There is a paucity…2016 American Transplant Congress
Pancreas Retransplantation – Is It Worth It?
Background: Pancreas transplantation is well established therapy for insulin-dependent diabetic patients. Management of patients with failed graft by retransplantation might be associated with increased technical…2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Ideal Body Weight vs. Actual Body Weight for the Prediction of Small for Size Syndrome and Graft Loss After Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Transplantation, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Introduction: We compared the impact of estimating graft to recipient body weight ratio (GBWR) with actual body weight (ABW) and ideal body weight (IBW) on…2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival After Second Kidney Transplant: Are We Being Good Stewards?
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
BACKGROUND: Primary kidney transplant is associated with increased life years compared with dialysis. Comparable patient survival between primary (1KT) and second kidney transplants (2KT) has…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…2016 American Transplant Congress
Graft Loss Due to Recurrence of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in Second Renal Transplant.
Transplant, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Introduction : Focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSGS) glomerulonephritis can recur in renal transplants, and can potentially lead to graft loss. The rate of graft loss…2016 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation (LT) Using Liver Allografts from Deceased After Cardiac Death (DCD) Donors: Opinions, Practices and Reality.
Background: Scientific Studies Committee of ASTS conducted study to identify barriers to use of DCD liver grafts.Objectives: Identify barriers to use of DCD liver allografts;…2016 American Transplant Congress
Intestinal Retransplantation in Children: Single Center Experience.
Aim: To analyze the patient and graft characteristics and improvement in patient outcomes for intestinal retransplantation (Re-ITx) in the era of induction immunosuppression with the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Hospital Readmission Following Kidney Re-Transplantation.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
BACKGROUND: Among first time kideny transplant (KT) recipients the incidence of early hospital readmission (EHR) is 31%. Kidney re-transplants are more complex and we hypothesize…
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