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Articles tagged "Safety"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Comparable Outcomes of Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Outcomes in Recipients with Previous Abdominal Surgery (PAS) after Pre Listing Surgical Categorization. A Propensity-Score Matched Pair Analysis

    H. Sharma, H. Bohorquez, D. Oganesyan, D. Bruce, E. Bugeaud, I. Carmody, A. Cohen, J. Seal, D. Sonnier, G. Loss

    Department of Transplant Surgery, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

    *Purpose: Few studies have evaluated the impact of previous abdominal surgery (PAS) on deceased donor liver transplantation-(DDLT). Furthermore, there is no evidence of impact of…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Safety and Efficacy of Anti Xa Inhibitors Post-Transplant with Concomitant Calcineurin Inhibitors

    K. A. McMurry1, J. Shuster2, K. Bain2, T. Horwedel3, J. Hartupee2

    1Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 3Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Cary, NC

    *Purpose: Despite demonstrated benefits of Anti-Xa Inhibitors (ATIs) in the general population, ATIs have not gained uniform acceptance in SOT due to lack of supportive…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Derived Tuberculosis in Solid Organ Transplantation in the United States: 10 Years of UNOS Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee Experience

    M. F. Malinis1, R. LaHoz1, G. Vece2, S. Tlusty2, S. Aslam1, R. Bag1, J. Bucio1, L. Danziger-Isakov1, D. F. Florescu1, M. Rana1, C. Wolfe1, M. G. Michaels1

    1DTAC, Richmond, VA, 2UNOS, Richmond, VA

    *Purpose: Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be transmitted via organ donation. Failure to recognize tuberculosis (TB) may result in significant morbidity and mortality. Currently, donor screening for…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Direct Oral Anticoagulants: An Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

    T. Pasley, A. Logan, A. Brueckner, L. Bowman, A. Silverman, A. Rumore

    Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL

    *Purpose: The use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) has not been fully adopted by the solid organ transplant (SOT) community due to factors including, fluctuating…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Real-Life Food Safety Behavior and Incidence of Food-Borne Infections in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients

    M. Lindup, D. Golshayan, M. Pascual, O. Manuel, M. Mombelli

    CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

    *Purpose: Specific food safety measures are highly recommended in solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients. However, the actual adherence of patients in real life and the impact…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    The Incidence of Fungal Infections in Pancreas Transplant Recipients in the Absence of Systemic Antifungal Prophylaxis

    S. Shaikh1, M. Cooper1, A. Nolan1, P. Abrams2

    1MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, 2MedStar Gerogetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: Fungal infections after pancreas transplantation have been associated with morbidity and mortality, therefore transplant centers may elect to use systemic perioperative antifungal prophylaxis (ppx).…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Torque Teno Virus is a Prognostic Biomarker for Acute Biopsy-Proven Alloreactivity in Kidney Transplants

    K. Doberer

    Dpt. of Internal Medicine III, Div. of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    *Purpose: Drug-induced immunosuppression in kidney transplantation is crucial to prevent allograft rejection, but increases risk for infectious, cardiovascular and malignant disease. Tailoring of immunosuppressive drug…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Whole Body CT Imaging in Deceased Donor Screening

    J. W. Mensink1, R. A. Pol.2, W. N. Nijboer1, J. de Jonge3, K. M. Ooms - de Vries4, M. F. van der Jagt5, M. C. van de Poll6, I. P. Alwayn1, A. E. Braat1

    1Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 2Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 3Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4Dutch Transplant Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands, 5Department of Surgery; Division of Transplantation, University Medical Center St. Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 6Department of Surgery and Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands

    *Purpose: Using older (extended criteria) donors to increase the donor pool increases the risk of malignancies in the donor. Our aim was to analyze the…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Individualized Preconditioning for ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: An Initial Report of 48 Cases from China

    X. -. Wang

    Department of Urology/Institute of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    *Purpose: Typically, the majority of centres that perform ABO incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation use fixed preconditioning protocols regardless of the initial titer. As experience in…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Organ Vigilance in Germany: Malignancy Transmission from Organ Donor to Recipient

    K. Moench, A. Rahmel, A. P. Barreiros

    German Foundation for Organtransplantation, Frankfurt, Germany

    *Purpose: Vigilance monitoring after organ transplantation includes Serious Adverse Events (SAE) and Serious Adverse Reactions (SAR). SAE describe findings in the donor after transplant that…
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