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Long-term Outcomes of Early Steroid Withdrawal (SW) After Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: Early SW (10 years) graft failure associated with early SW.*Conclusions: We conclude that early SW has similar or better long-term outcomes than maintenance prednisone.2021 American Transplant Congress
Cancer Among Kidney Transplant Recipients More Than 20 Years After Transplantation: PTLD Remains the Most Common Cancer Type Even in the Very Long-Term
Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
*Purpose: Due to an improved patient and kidney allograft survival, cancer is increasingly recognized as the major cause of death after kidney transplantation. Cancer risk…2021 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Procurement Cardiac Arrest in Lung Allograft Donors and Effects on Recipient Outcomes
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: This study seeks to help expand the lung transplant donor pool by demonstrating the safe use of lung allografts from donors who underwent pre-procurement…2020 American Transplant Congress
Transarterial Chemoembolization and Radio-Embolization are Similarly Efficacious in Achieving Successful Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Down-Staging: Results from the Multicenter Evaluation of Reduction in Tumor Size Before Liver Transplantation (MERITS-LT) Consortium
*Purpose: United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) Region 5 has reported excellent liver transplantation (LT) outcomes after successful down-staging (DS) in HCC patients exceeding Milan…2020 American Transplant Congress
Pulmonary Hypertension is Associated with Inferior Graft and Patient Survival after Kidney Transplantation
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is increasingly recognized among patients with chronic kidney disease largely driven by left heart failure, high cardiac output, hypoxic lung diseases…2020 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant with Donation after Cardiac Death versus Donation after Brain Death Donors: Survival and Outcomes at 10 Years
1Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: This observational study utilizes the SRTR database to assess liver transplant outcomes after Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) versus Donation after Brain Death (DBD)…2020 American Transplant Congress
Predictors and Outcomes of Acute Graft versus Host Disease after Liver Transplant
*Purpose: Graft-versus-Host Disease (GVHD) is a rare complication of liver transplant (LT) with an estimated incidence of 0.1-2% per year and a high mortality. There…2020 American Transplant Congress
Access to and Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease-Associated End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Patients with end-stage renal disease due to sickle cell disease (SCD-ESRD) have high mortality, which might be reduced by kidney transplantation (KT). However, whether…2020 American Transplant Congress
Older Livers Should Not Be Utilized in Pediatric Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Organ scarcity in liver transplantation has required expansion of the acceptable criteria used for donor selection. The utilization of older donors (>60 years) has…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Hiv-Positive Patients Post-Cardiac Transplantation
*Purpose: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is no longer an absolute contraindication to heart transplantation (HT) in many HT centers, but long-term post-HT outcomes of…
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