2022 American Transplant Congress
Size to Fit: A Simple Formula to Predict Donor Liver Weight in Deceased Donor Liver Transplant
*Purpose: Estimated donor liver volume (DLV) prediction equations are widely published. However, they often are complex and underpredict DLV, particularly in non-ideal body weight donors.…2022 American Transplant Congress
BMI Trajectory and Attributable Risk of New Onset Hypertension Among Obese Living Kidney Donors
*Purpose: Obesity increases hypertension risk in general and living kidney donor populations. Risk attributable to donation in the context of obesity and whether that risk…2022 American Transplant Congress
Excessive Weight Gain Does Not Associate with Poorer Graft Outcomes in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Recipients – A Single-Center Experience
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Weight gain is common following organ transplantation, and there exists concern that in simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) recipients, this may lead to poorer graft outcomes.*Methods:…2022 American Transplant Congress
Does Donor-to-Recipient Weight Mismatch Influence Short Term Outcomes of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation?
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: The functional nephron mass of an allograft is often taken into consideration when contemplating transplanting a small kidney into a large recipient. We aim…2022 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Different Initial Tacrolimus Dosing Regimens in Pediatric Post-Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressant used in post-liver transplantation, has wide pharmacokinetic variability, particularly in pediatric patients. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate different weight-based…2022 American Transplant Congress
XR Tacrolimus Dosing By Ideal Body Weight Reduces Incidence Of Early Supratherapeutic Tacrolimus Concentrations
Pharmacy, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: At our center, the use of de novo Envarsus XR® (extended-release [XR] tacrolimus) dosed at 0.12 mg/kg is standard of care in adult kidney…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Differential Impact of Size Mismatch in Live versus Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant
*Purpose: The risk of significant weight mismatch between donors and recipients (D-R) undergoing living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) is not well established. Further, how this…2021 American Transplant Congress
Development Following Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
Pediatrics II, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation for children suffering CKD5 has been established in Germany approximately 50 years ago. While in the early decades the focus was merely…2021 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Liver Assist Device as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation in Acute on Chronic Liver Failure Patients with Multi-Organ Failure
*Purpose: Acute on chronic liver failure (AOCLF) occurs in nearly 25% of patients with acutely decompensated cirrhosis, with many developing multi-organ failure requiring ventilatory, vasopressor…2021 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes of Obese Kidney Transplant Candidates Towards Bariatric Surgery
Surgery, University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Obesity is an epidemic in the US and increasingly prevalent in kidney transplant candidates. Surgical weight-loss interventions are effective and reduce transplant-related complications. They…
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