2013 American Transplant Congress
National Sharing of ECD Kidneys Is Justified, Even in the Face of Prolonged CIT
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Current kidney allocation in the US includes national sharing of ECD kidneys in cases of 0 HLA- A- B DR mismatches. Concerns regarding prolonged CIT…2013 American Transplant Congress
Decreasing Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Is Associated with an Increasing Risk of Hospitalization in the First Year Post Renal Transplantation
Background: A decrease in renal function is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, graft loss and mortality following renal transplantation. It is unclear…2013 American Transplant Congress
Mouse Models That Fully Reproduce Human Acute and Chronic Antibody-Mediated Kidney Transplant Rejection
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is a major cause of late kidney transplant failure. Until now, lack of relevant small animal models of pure antibody-mediated rejection has…2013 American Transplant Congress
Heterogeneity in Transcripts Induced in Implantation Biopsies: Distinguishing Preexisting Injury from Acute Phase Response
Human kidney transplants with early acute kidney injury (AKI) express transcripts indicating the injury-repair process (IRRATs). Expression of IRRATs correlated with delayed graft function (DGF)…2013 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Digest Tissue Volume of Chronic Pancreatitis Pancreas Intended for Islet Auto-Transplantation (IAT)
Schulze Diabetes Institute; Dept. of Surgery, Uni. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation is a major surgical procedure for which it is desirable to minimize the total transplanted tissue volume (TV) and the…2013 American Transplant Congress
Steroid Avoidance with Alemtuzumab Induction and Tacrolimus Monotherapy Gives Similar Outcomes to Basiliximab Induction with Tacrolimus / Mycophenolate Maintenance at Three Years
A randomised controlled trial comparing two steroid avoidance regimes was conducted in our centre from December 2006 to November 2010. Alemtuzumab induction followed by tacrolimus…2013 American Transplant Congress
Subclinical EBV and CMV Viremia Is Significantly Associated with the Development of Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy (IF/TA) in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients
Purpose:The leading cause of pediatric kidney transplant loss is chronic renal allograft dysfunction (CRAD). Currently, the etiology of CRAD is thought to be multi-factorial. While…2013 American Transplant Congress
Understanding Racial Disparity in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
Division of Transplantation, University of Illinois at Chicago, CHicago, IL
BACKGROUND: There is a large ethnical disparity in the rate of living kidney donation. We analyzed possible causes of this difference.METHOD: We performed a single-center…2013 American Transplant Congress
In Vivo Interaction between ATG and IVIg May Decrease the Efficacy of Antibody Mediated Rejection Treatment
Treatment of antibody mediated rejection(AMR) is not standardized. Anti-thymocyte globulin(ATG) is commonly used in combination with intravenous immunoglobulin(IVIg) and plasmapheresis(Px). Our in vitro data show…2013 American Transplant Congress
Association of B Cell Population in Splenic Histology of ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplantation and One-Year Graft and Recipient Survival, The
Purpose: To evaluate the association of plasma cell population (PCs) in splenic histology of ABO incompatible (ABO-i) kidney transplant recipients and one year graft and…
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