2022 American Transplant Congress
Internal Validation of a Pre-Transplant Biomarker Panel to Predict Post-Transplant Mortality: The Liver Immune Frailty Index
1Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 2Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Infection and sepsis are the greatest contributors to early post-liver transplant (LT) mortality. These often result from ongoing immune dysfunction, or “Immune Frailty”. We…2022 American Transplant Congress
Immunosuppressant Medications Use in Patients with Transplant Failure: A Canadian Multi-Centre Prospective Study
*Purpose: This prospective study determined the association of immunosuppressant medication use with the outcomes of death, hospitalized infection, rejection of the failed allograft, and panel…2022 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients 70 Years and Older
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Patients older than 70 years are the fastest-growing age group of patients requiring renal replacement therapy. This has resulted in a corresponding increase in…2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Long Agonal Duration on Outcomes After Donation After Circulatory Death Lung Transplantation: An Analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing Database
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Lung transplantation (LTx) using donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors has been well established, however, previous investigators have focused on time from withdrawal of…2022 American Transplant Congress
The High Acuity Index: A Posttransplant Prediction Score for High-MELD Patients
*Purpose: Patients with a very high Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score are at significant short-term risk for death without liver transplantation. While many…2022 American Transplant Congress
Alloimmunization Against Red Blood Cell Antigens is Not Associated with Increased All Cause Mortality in Liver Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Liver transplantation (LT) is a life‐saving procedure for patients with end‐stage liver disease and transfusion therapy of LT patients remains a challenge. Improvement of…2022 American Transplant Congress
Failure to Account for Social Determinants of Health in Non-HCC MELD Exceptions Exacerbates Geographic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Non-HCC MELD exceptions have been previously shown to give excess priority for transplant in certain UNOS Regions, but this phenomenon has not been examined…2022 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes in Pediatric Intestinal Retransplantation
*Purpose: Historically, intestinal retransplantation (Re-ITx) has been associated with high morbidity and mortality.*Methods: Retrospective chart review of patients who underwent Re-ITx at our institution between…2022 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of Preemptive Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Diabetes mellitus is a well-established risk factor for morbidity and mortality among patients on dialysis, but the evidence regarding the benefits of performing preemptive…2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient BSA Matching is Prognostically Significant in Solitary and En-bloc Kidney Transplantation from Pediatric Circulatory Death Donors
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the pernicious effects of inadequate functional nephron mass in size disparate donation after cardiac death (DCD)…
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