2013 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Serum Markers in Evaluating Graft Pancreatitis Following Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation
INTRODUCTION. Graft pancreatitis remains difficult to diagnose using clinical assessment alone, leading to indiscriminate use of cross-sectional imaging. We seek to correlate the presence of…2013 American Transplant Congress
Safety Risks in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
OBJECTIVE/BACKGROUND:According to the 2010 U.S. Office of the Inspector General’s Report, adverse events (AE) are common in the care of patients. In Living Donor Liver…2013 American Transplant Congress
Follow-Up Reporting for Living Kidney Donors
UNOS, Richmond, VA; U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Follow-up reporting for living kidney donors (LKDs) increases knowledge of short-term risks of donation. Anecdotal evidence suggests that low reporting rates are due to LKDs…2013 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Organ Retrieval Team on Mid-Term Outcome of Lung Transplantation
Purpose Due to a zonal organ allocation scheme introduced in United Kingdom, organ retrieval is performed frequently by different centers. This study evaluates the influence…2013 American Transplant Congress
PI3Kδ Inhibition Augments the Efficacy of mTOR Inhibitor Rapamycin on the Proliferation of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)+ B Cell Lymphomas
Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a devastating and potentially life-threatening complication in transplant recipients. PTLD is associated with EBV infection and can result in malignant…2013 American Transplant Congress
Three Genotypically Distinct Strains of Pneumocystis Jirovecii Caused an Outbreak of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Renal and Liver Transplant Recipients
Background: Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is a serious and possibly lethal opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. An outbreak of 29 PCP cases occurred among renal…2013 American Transplant Congress
Time on Waiting List for Patients with High MELD Does Not Influence Graft or Patient Survival after Liver Transplantation
Northwestern University, Chicago
BACKGROUND: With the decreased donor availability, even patients with high MELD scores can have prolonged wait times for liver transplantation (LT). However, it is unknown…2013 American Transplant Congress
Injected Allogeneic CD4+CD25+ Tregs Regulate the Neonatal Immune System and Prolong Heart Allograft Survival
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Introduction/Methods: Semi-allogeneic (F1; H-2k/b) splenocytes (SC) injected into newborn mice (H-2k) induce immunological tolerance whereas allogeneic SC (H-2b) lead to graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). Here we…2013 American Transplant Congress
Obesity Negatively Impacts Access to Transplantation in Women but Not Men
Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
It is known that obese wait-listed patients are less likely to undergo deceased donor transplantation compared to non-obese patients. Using Cox multivariate regression analyses and…2013 American Transplant Congress
Mismatched VCA Transplantation without the Need for Donor Cell Chimerism: A Model To Achieve Tolerance While Eliminating Chronic Immunosuppression and the Risks of GVHD
Introduction: The application of Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) transplantation is limited by the need for immunosuppression. Tolerance induction protocols using stem cell transplantation can eliminate…
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