2020 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Eplet Mismatches Associated with De Novo Donor Specific HLA Antibody in a Pediatric Kidney Transplant Cohort
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: While optimizing immunological matching will decrease the risk of de novo donor specific HLA antibody (dnDSA) formation and improve long-term graft function in pediatric…2020 American Transplant Congress
Can HLA-DQ Molecular Mismatch Analysis Be Used to Predict Generation of De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody at an Individual Patient Level?
1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
*Purpose: De novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA), especially to HLA-DQ, are one of the leading causes of late kidney graft failure. Many investigators have attempted to…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Epitope Mismatch Load and Shared Targeting Epitopes between De Novo Donor Specific Antibody (DSA) and Non-DSA Third Party HLA Antibody on Lung Transplantation Outcomes
1Allogen Laboratories, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 2Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*Purpose: Rapid advancements in HLA typing and antibody identification technologies allow for enhanced HLA compatibility assessment at the epitope level to aid in the reduction…2020 American Transplant Congress
Immune-Mediated Injury and Eplet Mismatches – Profiling Population-Level Interactions
*Purpose: HLA genes are in linkage disequilibrium with each other. Sequence defined HLA targets (eplets) are associated with alleles and may be shared within and…2019 American Transplant Congress
Mismatched Epitope and De Novo DSA Development: An Analysis of the Benefit and Benefit-EXT Renal Transplant Cohorts
*Purpose: De novo donor-specific HLA antibodies (dnDSA) target epitopes rather than whole antigens, and their development is associated with the mismatched HLA antibody epitope load…2019 American Transplant Congress
Solving Target Recognition and Activation Mediated by Non-HLA Agonistic Antibodies Targeting ETAR
*Purpose: Endothelin-1 type A receptor (ETAR) exhibits multiligand binding abilities and may signal upon natural ligand Endothelin-1 (ET-1) and non-HLA ETAR-agonistic IgG (ETAR-IgG)-mediated stimulation similar…2019 American Transplant Congress
Can Imputation of HLA Allele Level Typing Be Used Clinically in a Multiethnic Population?
*Purpose: Assignment of eplets in transplantation for the purpose of matching or risk stratification requires high-resolution HLA typing, which is not readily available. Computer algorithms…2019 American Transplant Congress
Predicted Indirectly Recognizable H L A Epitopes Are Associated with T-cell Mediated Rejection among Kidney Transplant Recipients with Preformed and De Novo Donor-Reactive T-cells
*Purpose: Very recently Predicted Indirectly ReCognizable HLA Epitopes (PIRCHE) have been suggested to demonstrate early and late effects on kidney allograft outcomes. The association between…2019 American Transplant Congress
ABO Incompatibility in Kidney Transplantation Can Increase a Safety Margin of Epitope Mismatch Levels against De Novo DSA Production
*Purpose: Chronic antibody-mediated rejection (cABMR) caused by de novo donor specific HLA antibodies (DSA) is one of major obstacles to long term graft outcome. ABO…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Eplet Mismatches on Kidney Transplant Outcome: A Single-Center Cohort Study
*Purpose: It has been shown that HLA-matching at classic antigen-level for HLA-A, -B and -DRB1 loci, provides benefits in matching and outcome after solid organ…