Articles tagged "Survival"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Early Outcomes with the Liver-Kidney Safety Net
R. M. Cannon¹, D. S. Goldberg², D. E. Eckhoff¹, D. J. Anderson¹, B. J. Orandi¹, J. E. Locke¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: A safety net policy was implemented in August 2017 giving liver alone recipients with significant renal dysfunction post-transplant priority for subsequent renal transplantation. This…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improving Access to Transplantation and Outcomes for African American Patients
D. Bekbolsynov, O. Ekwenna, B. Mierzejewska, J. Borucka, S. A. Khuder, M. Rees, R. Green, S. Stepkowski
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
*Purpose: Black or African American patients are clearly disadvantaged in comparison to Caucasian patients both in terms of the access to kidney transplantation and post-transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Lacripep^TM and its Analogs Act as Novel Interventional Agents to Promote Long-Term Islet Transplantation Outcomes
M. Ma¹, K. Teixeira², G. Laurie², K. Brayman¹, P. Chhabra¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, ²Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: To study the prosecretory, prosurvival, and mitogenic effect of Lacripep™ and its analogs in enhancing islet viability, increasing insulin secretion and promoting long-term islet…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Perioperative Results of Lung Transplantation in a Newly Established, High-Volume Lung Transplantation Center in China
F. Xiao¹, Z. Zhang¹, H. Feng¹, M. Li², W. Chen³, C. Liang¹, J. Chen³
¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China, ²Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China, ³Department of Lung Transplantation, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
*Purpose: The number of patients with end-stage lung disease is huge in China, lung transplantation is the only effective method. By presenting the perioperative results…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Livers from Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Offer – Accept or Decline?
T. Ishaque, M. G. Bowring, J. D. Motter, Y. Yu, S. Yu, A. B. Kernodle, J. G. Wang, S. Getsin, D. L. Segev, A. B. Massie
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Given the shortage of deceased-donor livers, donation after cardiac death (DCD) provides an opportunity to expand the donor pool. Due to concern over the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Center Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial of a Home-Based Exercise Program for Patients with Cirrhosis: The Strength Training Intervention
J. C. Lai¹, M. R. Kappus², J. L. Dodge¹, R. Wong¹, Y. Mohamad¹, D. L. Segev³, M. A. McAdams-DeMarco⁴
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Duke University, San Francisco, NC, ³Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Patients with cirrhosis experience progressive physical frailty and functional decline that may ultimately lead to an increased risk of death. We developed the Strength…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Uremic Symptoms: A Patient-Reported Outcome That is Associated with Access to Kidney Transplantation and Waitlist Mortality among Kidney Transplant Candidates
K. Taylor¹, N. Chu², Z. Shi², E. Rosello³, S. Kunwar², P. Butz³, S. Norman⁴, D. Crews⁵, K. Greenberg⁵, D. Segev³, T. Shafi⁶, M. McAdams-DeMarco³
¹Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁵Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁶Division of Nephrology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
*Purpose: Patient-reported symptoms of uremia - pruritis, anorexia and fatigue - reflect incomplete removal of uremic toxins by dialysis and are likely one of the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney vs. Kidney Alone Transplants in Type 2 Diabetic Recipients: A Multivariate Analysis of U.S. Transplants
S. M. Riad¹, S. Jackson², D. Keys¹, V. Humphereville³, L. Caramori¹, R. Kandaswamy³
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN, ³Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: The impact of simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplants in uremic, non-obese, insulin-treated type 2 diabetic (T2DM) recipients is not well described. We analyzed the SRTR…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin versus Anti-T Lymphocyte Globulin Rescue Therapies in Delayed Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation from Donors after Cardiac Death
H. Yang¹, Y. Shi², X. Li¹, C. Long¹, H. Li³, Z. Wang³
¹Department of Organ Transplantation, Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital Affiliated to Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, ²Department of Pathology, Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, ³Department of Urologic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
*Purpose: Delayed graft function (DGF) is common in recipients of kidney transplants from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors, induction therapy with monoclonal or polyclonal…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Intra-Lymph Node Injection of Microparticles Reprograms the Laminin Stromal Network to Prolong Allograft Survival
C. M. Paluskievicz¹, Y. Xiong¹, W. Piao¹, M. Willson-Shirkey¹, H. Eppler², C. M. Jewell², J. S. Bromberg¹
¹U Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD, ²U Maryland, College Park, MD, College Park, MD
*Purpose: Microparticles (MPs) carrying peptide antigen with immune signals can be directly delivered to lymph nodes (LNs) to induce pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory responses. We hypothesized…