Articles tagged "Survival"

2020 American Transplant Congress
First Experience with a New Storage Device for Cold Heart Preservation
A. Zuckermann, J. Gökler, P. Kaiser, E. Ceran, N. Neuber, P. Angleitner, G. Laufer, A. Aliabadi-Zuckermann
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*Purpose: The standard technology for heart preservation for transplantation is cold static storange on ice. No temperature control is performed routinley and therefore lower or…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Solid Organ Transplantation: Outcomes of Sequential Transplantation in the United States
M. Gupta¹, M. Levine², D. Porter², R. Brazauskas³, S. Bo-Subait⁴, R. Phelan³, M. Battiwalla⁵, D. Buchbinder⁶, B. Hamilton⁷, B. Shaw³, P. Abt²
¹University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁴CIBMTR, NMDP, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Sarah Cannon Blood Cancer Network, Nashville, TN, ⁶Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, ⁷Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Survival after solid organ transplantation(SOT) and hematopoietic cell transplantation(HCT) has steadily risen. Despite these improvements, SOT recipients may develop conditions requiring HCT, and HCT…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Graft and Patient Survival of Kidney Transplantation According to Ethnicity in US Kidney Transplant Recipients
H. Shin¹, Y. Kim¹, Y. Jung¹, H. Rim¹, A. Chandraker²
¹Internal Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, Gospel Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of, ²Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical School Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: African American kidney transplant recipients experience disproportionately high rates of graft loss. The aim of this analysis was to use a UNOS data set…
2019 American Transplant Congress
AKI and Long-Term Risk for Cardiovascular Events in Patients after Kidney Transplantation
R. Rahamimov¹, M. Molcho², I. Vahav², E. Mor³, T. Y. van Dijk⁴, B. Rozen-Zvi¹
¹Department of Nephrology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel, ²Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Department of Transplantation, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel, ⁴Department of Emergency Medicine, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel
*Purpose: AKI was found to be associated with increased risk of major cardiovascular events (MACE) in the general population. Patients after kidney transplantation are prone…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Estimated vs. Actual Graft Failure and Patient Survival after Kidney Transplantation
J. Buggs¹, T. Thigpen², E. Rogers¹, A. Kumar³, V. Bowers¹
¹Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ²Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, ³University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the difference between the estimated and actual values of graft survival and patient survival in kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Overcoming Anti-HLA Sensitization in Kidney Transplantation
R. C. Siqueira¹, P. Malafronte², J. C. Baptista-Silva², E. F. Silva², M. C. Camargo², M. C. Ribeiro Castro²
¹Nephrology Post-Graduation, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Kidney Transplant Unit, Hospital Samaritano de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*Purpose: To evaluate if it is possible to achieve good results in kidney transplantation (Ktx) regardless the degree of anti-HLA sensitization.*Methods: 143 adult living (LD)…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Donor – Recipient Size Mismatch Has No Impact on Outcomes after Deceased Donor Whole Liver Transplantation: A Single Center Analysis
A. Cabrales¹, R. Mangus¹, B. Ekser¹, L. Timsina¹, J. Fridell¹, P. Mihaylov¹, T. Nikumbh¹, M. Ghabril², M. Lacerda², C. Kubal¹
¹Department of Surgery, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, ²Division of Digestive & Liver Disorders, Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Assessment of donor size by demographic variables is an important part of deceased donor evaluation prior to liver transplantation (LT). Lack of liver volumetric…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Follow-Up of the Use of Checkpoint Inhibitors in Kidney Transplant Recipients
K. Venkatachalam, R. Delos Santos, T. Alhamad
Transplant nephrology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: To report the long term impact of check point inhibitors in patient and allograft survival among kidney transplant recipients.*Methods: We report follow up of…
2019 American Transplant Congress
CMV Risk Status Remains a Relevant Risk Factor for Long-Term Outcomes
G. Karadkhele, W. Zhang, C. P. Larsen
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Intensification of immunosuppression using T cell depleting induction has reduced rates of acute cellular rejection after kidney transplantation. Belatacept, a first in class T…
2019 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of the BAR, DRM, DRI, sRRI, ET-DRI, D-MELD and SOFT Score to Predict Outcome after Liver Transplantation in the SRTR Database
J. D. de Boer¹, H. Putter², J. J. Blok¹, I. P. Alwayn¹, B. Van Hoek³, A. E. Braat¹
¹Transplant Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
*Purpose: Several risk models have been developed to predict outcome after liver transplantation (LT) in the last decade. This study analyzes the ability of these…