2013 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Graft Loss in Hand Transplant Recipients in the Western World – Cause for Concern?
Surgery, Duke University, Durham; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Introduction: In the 14 years since the first successful hand transplant, the procedure has become established and performed around the world. This is an analysis…2013 American Transplant Congress
Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Delays Progression of Liver Fibrosis
Introduction: Liver fibrosis represents a wound healing response to chronic insults affecting both candidates for liver transplantation and transplanted patients. Interleukin-1Β (IL1Β) has been proposed…2013 American Transplant Congress
Intragraft Gene Expression of Polyomavirus Associated Nephropathy
BACKGROUNDAlthough the histopathology of polyomavirus nephropathy (PVAN) is very often indistinguishable from T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR), the outcome of both diseases is very different. The…2013 American Transplant Congress
Causes of Kidney Transplant Failure: Specific Diseases Versus Non-Specific Injury, The
University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
BACKGROUNDThe relative impact on renal allograft outcome of specific histological diseases (e.g. acute T-cell mediated rejection [TCMR], acute and chronic antibody-mediated rejection [aABMR and cABMR],…2013 American Transplant Congress
Urinary Protein Excretion in Non-Renal Transplant Patients – Does mTOR-Inhibitor Treatment Matter?
The H2304 Study Group, Basel, Switzerland
BackgroundThe interplay of glomerular filtration and tubular absorption of proteins with various molecular weights defines the pattern and magnitude of daily urinary protein excretion (UPE).…2013 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of Leukocyte-Endothelium Interactions after Immunosuppression by Means of Intravital Microscopy in the Human Placenta
Background: The failure of translating results obtained in animal models into humans is one of the main problems in medical research. The aim of our…2013 American Transplant Congress
CD68 Positive Glomerulitis Predicts the Development of Transplant Glomerulopathy in Patients with Cellular Rejection
Transplant glomerulopathy [TG] has a very poor prognosis and is almost always associated with eventual graft failure. The risk of TG is increased in patients…2013 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Conversion Rate as a Quality Measure for Kidney Transplant Programs
U of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; U of British Columbia, Canada
Kidney transplant (KTxp) program quality is assessed by risk adjusted wait list (WL) mortality, time to deceased donor (DD) Txp, and patient (pt) and graft…2013 American Transplant Congress
Tolerance Related Gene Expression in Urine from Kidney Transplant Recipients
Background: Long-term graft survival in renal transplantation relies on continuous immunosuppression with drugs that can cause high morbidity. Tolerance is an emerging clinically recognised event.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Anti-HLA Immunization Profile at the Time and after Renal Allograft Nephrectomy
IntroductionAllograft nephrectomy is a major risk factor for alloimmunization and can increase time on the waiting-list and acute antibody-mediated rejection. Anti-HLA immunization profile, DSA and…
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