2013 American Transplant Congress
Cardiac Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients: Should It Be Done Simultaneously or after Liver Transplantation?
Univ of Miami, Miami; CCF, Cleveland; Guanxi Medical University, Nanning, China
Background: Patients with end stage liver disease may have coexisting cardiac disease which requires surgical correction which is associated with high morbidity and mortality unless…2013 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Results of Combined and Sequential Liver-Kidney Transplantation: A Single Center Experience
Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Molinette Hospital, Turin, Italy
Since 2002, when the end-stage liver disease model (MELD) score was adopted, the number of combined liver-kidney transplantations increased.Between January 1995 and December 2011 we…2013 American Transplant Congress
Evidence for Chronic Rejection of the Skin and Adnexal Structures in a Hand Transplant Recipient at Six Years Post Transplant without Significant Graft Vasculopathy
In solid organ transplantation, all organs are afflicted to some level with chronic rejection, albeit towards different targets. Although a young field, chronic rejection in…2013 American Transplant Congress
Deteriorating Quality of Organ Donors, The
PurposeWith the rising disparity between the number of transplants needed and the number of organ donors available, there is an increasing trend of procuring organs…2013 American Transplant Congress
Cardiovascular Risk Profile in Children after Renal Transplantation – Introducing the 4C-T Sub-Study
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) carry an increased cardiovascular risk up to 1000-fold that of the age-matched general population. The 4C-T (Cardiovascular Comorbidity in…2013 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of CMV Antiviral Resistance Mutations in Clinical Samples
Viracor-IBT Laboratories, Lee's Summit, MO
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections are a major cause of disease among immunocompromised patients. In this population, prolonged antiviral therapy is often necessary to prevent or treat…2013 American Transplant Congress
Tolerogenic Effect of Maternal Microchimerism Is Linked to Semi-Direct Pathway, The
Surgery/Transpantation Division, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Background: In the last decade a semi-direct pathway of alloimune response was described, in which dendritic cells (DC) of the recipient acquire MHC molecules from…2013 American Transplant Congress
Epitope Spreading and Epitope Sharing Are Involved in Acute IgG1 Antibody-Mediated Rejection of a Kidney Transplant with Disparity Only at HLA-DP
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background: Donor-specific alloantibodies (DSA) directed to HLA-DP alone may cause acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), especially in re-transplanted patients. Since the origins of such DSA are…2013 American Transplant Congress
Effect of CTLA4-Ig on the Fate of Alloreactive Th17 Cells In Vivo, The
Transplantation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
The role of Th17:Treg balance in allograft rejection is incompletely understood and remains an active area of investigation. Prior studies have suggested that CD28 costimulation…2013 American Transplant Congress
Role for DEPTOR in Cell-Intrinsic Mechanisms of Anti-Inflammation in Vascular Endothelial Cells
Recent studies have highlighted a new paradigm whereby the maintenance of normal tissue homeostasis and the prevention of chronic inflammation are dependent on the active…
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