2013 American Transplant Congress
Drop in Allograft Function Associates with Drop in Bone Mineral Density Z Score in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients
Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO
The high prevalence of renal osteodystrophy (ROD) in pediatric renal transplant recipients has been linked to the duration of dialysis pre transplant, exposure to steroids,…2013 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of the Chronic Kidney Disease-EPI Equation To Predict Outcomes in Lung Transplant Recipients
The purpose of this study is to compare two formulas for GFR estimation – the popular Modified Diet in Renal Disease, MDRD and the recently…2013 American Transplant Congress
Rates and Outcomes of Renal Transplantation in Children with Intellectual Disability
Background: Limited data exist on renal transplantation in children with intellectual disability (ID). In 2008, UNOS began collecting data on the cognitive and academic level…2013 American Transplant Congress
Regulatory Dendritic Cells (DCreg) Prolong Kidney Allograft Survival in Non-Human Primates When Combined with Costimulation Blockade and Rapamycin
Background: Regulatory immune cells are promising therapeutic agents to promote immunosuppressive drug minimization/withdrawal in organ transplantation. Dendritic cells (DC) are innate immune antigen (Ag)-presenting cells…2013 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Pre-Operative Regulatory T Cell Function: A Predictor of Acute Kidney Injury after Kidney Transplantation
Multi-Organ Transplant Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI), in both its most severe (delayed graft function, DGF) and milder (slow graft function, SGF) forms, increases the risk for…2013 American Transplant Congress
Use of the Flotrac System To Guide Donor Management Is Associated with Increased Organs Transplanted Per Donor, The
INTRODUCTION: There is a national shortage of organs available for transplantation and utilization rates for thoracic organs are less than 40%. The management of organ…2013 American Transplant Congress
Total Face and Multi-Organ Procurement from a Brain-Dead Donor: Institutional Experience and Proposed Algorithm
Purpose:A full facial procurement should allow concurrent procurement of all solid organs and ensure their integrity. Procurement of facial vascularized composite allografts (VCA) challenges surgical…2013 American Transplant Congress
mTOR Inhibition Blocks CCR9 Upregulation Induced by All-Trans Retinoic Acid in Naturally-Occurring CD4+ FoxP3+ Regulatory T Cells
BackgroundCD4+ FoxP3+ regulatory T cells (Treg) are an important population of suppressor T cells that have shown promise in treating experimental autoimmune disease, allograft rejection,…2013 American Transplant Congress
Genome-Wide Chromatin Remodeling by the Transcription Factor Foxp3
Pathology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Foxp3 is a transcription factor expressed by a subset of lymphocytes called regulatory T cells (Treg). Unlike conventional T cells that mediate immunity, Treg suppress…2013 American Transplant Congress
Chronic Opioid Usage Early after Kidney Transplantation
Introduction: Chronic opioids usage (COU) is common among patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving dialysis treatment and associated with poor clinical outcomes. We…
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