2020 American Transplant Congress
The Living Donor Collective Pilot Evaluations of Living Kidney Donor Candidates at 10 Programs
*Purpose: Much remains to learn regarding long-term effects of living organ donation on donors. Rare events are important, and long-term follow-up with appropriate contemporaneous controls…2020 American Transplant Congress
Optimal Transition for Transplant Recipients: A Model of Care in an Integrated Health Care System
*Purpose: Transplantation is the treatment of choice for ESRD. While short-term outcomes have improved, long-term outcomes lag. Many factors may explain the long-term lag including…2020 American Transplant Congress
Results of Pancreas Transplantation in Diabetic Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease Older Than 50 Years
*Purpose: Improvement of care in type 1 diabetes mellitus, with the optimization of patient access to insulins of variable action, has led to macro- and…2020 American Transplant Congress
Heart Transplant Outcomes for Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) Before and after the 2018 Revision of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Adult Heart Allocation System
*Purpose: In October of 2018 UNOS chaged their adult heart allocation criteria to address disparity in waiting list survival. The implications of this policy change…2020 American Transplant Congress
Tracking Tregs in a Non-Human Primate Model with Expanded Autologous Treg Infusions In Vivo
*Purpose: Regulatory Tcell (Treg) therapy is a promising tool for tolerance induction in solid organ transplantation. Despite encouraging results in humans and monkeys, questions about…2020 American Transplant Congress
Proposed New Kidney Allocation Policy: Moving to Concentric Circles as the First Unit of Allocation
*Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) proposed a new national deceased donor kidney allocation policy that removes donor service area and OPTN region…2020 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation Demonstrated Superiority to Deceased Donor Transplantation after Adult-To-Adult Liver Transplantation in Cumulative Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study of 19 Years
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an alternative way to deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT). LDLT and DDLT showed similar short-term outcomes of recipient…2020 American Transplant Congress
Cytomegalovirus Infection and Outcomes in Pancreas Transplant Recipients in the Prophylaxis Era
1UW Health, Madison, WI, 2UWMF, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Evaluate epidemiology and outcomes of cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) in pancreas transplant recipients (PTR) in the current era of valganciclovir (VGC) prophylaxis (PPX)*Methods: Adult PTRs…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Use of dd-cfDNA as a Predictive Tool for Future Proteinuria
*Purpose: Most allografts with proteinuria >1500 mg/dL have new glomerular pathology. In contrast, lower levels of proteinuria are generally associated with non-glomerular, nonspecific histologic changes.…2020 American Transplant Congress
Increased Post-Operative Ventilation Time in Lung Transplant Recipients with Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction
*Purpose: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction has been shown to be associated with increased morbidity in bilateral lung transplant recipients with pulmonary artery hypertension. It has…
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