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…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Dialysis and Diabetes on Survival in Recipients of Combined Heart-Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: Mounting data shows a survival benefit of combined heart-kidney transplantation in patients with heart and renal failure. However, little has been done to understand…2020 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Allograft Survival via Donor MHC Chimerism Induced by Exosomes
*Purpose: Allogeneic transplant tolerance has been achieved by inducing mixed hematopoietic chimerism via donor bone marrow transplantation. Tolerance mechanisms in this model involve the presentation…2020 American Transplant Congress
Early Allograft Dysfunction as a Predictor for Graft and Patient Survival after Liver Transplantation
Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Early allograft dysfunction (EAD) after liver transplantation has been associated with long-term reduced graft and patient survival. In this single center cohort study, we…2020 American Transplant Congress
Relative Transplant Center Organ Volumes are Associated with Patient and Graft Survival
Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Transplant programs differ in relative volume of kidney and liver transplants. While there is a known volume-outcome relationship for organ-specific transplantation at an institutional…2020 American Transplant Congress
A Population-Based Analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Children: Identifying Optimal Surgical Treatment
*Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) constitutes 0.5% of childhood malignancies and exhibits poor prognosis. Complete tumor extirpation either by partial liver resection (LR) or liver transplantation…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pretransplant Malignancy on Heart and Lung Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate pre-transplant malignancy (PTM) as a risk factor for worsened post-transplant prognosis in heart or lung transplant…
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