2018 American Transplant Congress
Urinary Sulfate Excretion and Late Graft Failure in Renal Transplant Recipients
BackgroundHydrogen sulfide (H2S), produced from the metabolism of dietary sulfur-containing amino acids, is allegedly a potential renoprotective compound. High 24h urinary excretion of pathway intermediate…2018 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function in Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation
Purpose: Increased rates of delayed graft function (DGF) after simultaneous liver kidney (SLK) transplantation have been described, as well as inferior graft survival in patients…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Calculator for Kidney Transplant Waitlist Outcomes under the New Kidney Allocation System
1HCMC, Minneapolis; 2SRTR, Minneapolis; 3Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
BACKGROUND: Outcomes on the kidney transplant waiting list vary markedly by region and patient characteristics, and the new kidney allocation system (KAS) changed the probability…2018 American Transplant Congress
Incidence Trends among Deceased Liver Transplant Recipients in the United States, 2011-2016: A Propensity Score-Matched Study
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
BackgroundDonation after cardiac death (DCD) donor liver graft is a known risk factor for graft failure secondary to primary non-function (PNF) and/or diffuse cholangiopathy (DC).…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of a Steroid Free Immunosuppressive Regimen on Patient and Graft Outcomes in Pancreas Transplant Recipients
Steroids have been an important component of maintenance immunosuppression in solid organ transplant, but their adverse effect profile has led to the development of steroid…2018 American Transplant Congress
Quality of Life after Kidney Transplant in Andalucia (Spain)
Nephrology, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain.
IntroductionKidney transplant remains the best option for patients with end-stage renal disease, offering patients a longer and more satisfying life. Quality of life, as defined…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of an Anastomosis Time on Transplant Outcomes in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
Background: It is known that the increase in anastomosis time (AT) in deceased donor kidney transplantation (DDKT) is associated with increased incidence of delayed graft…2018 American Transplant Congress
Competing Risk Analysis in Renal Allograft Survival: A New Perspective to an Old Problem
1Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Background:Patient and graft survival after kidney transplant (KTX) is often estimated by Kaplan-Meier censoring for competing factors, e.g.death-censored graft survival. However when the competing factor…2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Bone Marrow CXCR4+ Foxp3+ Treg Cells Are Essential for Costimulation Blockade-Induced Long-Term Survival of Murine Limb Transplants
1CHOP, Philadelphia; 2UPenn, Philadelphia.
Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) would likely be more widely performed if maintenance immunosuppression was not essential for graft acceptance. Accordingly, we used murine models of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Cost of Death and Graft Failure across All Solid Organs
1St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO; 2SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; 3Lahey Hosp & Med Ctr, Burlington, VT.
Medicare costs for transplant vary considerably by organ, and costs in the second posttransplant year (Y2) are lower than in the first (Y1). Variability in…
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