2013 American Transplant Congress
Loss of Pediatric Kidney Grafts during the "High-Risk Age Window": Insights from Liver Recipients
Background. Pediatric kidney recipients must traverse a high-risk age window of late adolescence and early adulthood during which there is an increased risk of graft…2013 American Transplant Congress
Effectiveness of Rituximab and Intravenous Immunoglobulin for the Treatment of Chronic Antibody Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Background: Chronic antibody-mediated rejection (CAMR) is an important cause of late allograft dysfunction. But established treatment guidelines for CAMR have not been determined. The aim…2013 American Transplant Congress
Association of Pancreas Auto-Antibodies (AA) with Donor Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies (DSA) and Pancreatic Allograft Function
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
In type1 diabetics undergoing pancreas transplant the significance of re-exposure to pancreatic auto-antigens in the context of DSA and new alloimmunity is not well known.Twenty…2013 American Transplant Congress
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Kidney Paired Donation Pilot Program (KPDPP): Review of Current Results, The
UNOS; Yale Medical Ctr; Univ of Florida; Northwestern Univ; Carnegie Mellon Univ
Background: On Oct 27, 2010, the OPTN KPDPP ran its first of 40 match runs. 128 transplant centers representing all 11 regions have joined, with…2013 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Independent Risk Factors for De Novo DSA Development through Prospective Monitoring
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Background: Donor specific anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies (DSA) after renal transplant have been associated with poor outcomes in the form of renal dysfunction, increased…2013 American Transplant Congress
Decadal Analysis of Deceased Organ Donation in Spain and the U.S., Linking Increased Donation Rate and Utilization of Older Donors
After founding the Organizacion Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT), Spanish donation rates from deceased donors rapidly outpaced U.S. growth over the decade between 1989-1999. This analysis…2013 American Transplant Congress
New Method of Flow Cytometry Assay of Antibody Binding to Human Renal Microvascular Endothelial Cells, A
Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
PURPOSE: We developed a protocol for assessing human kidney biopsies by flow cytometry. Using this technique we asked whether or not antibody bound to microvascular…2013 American Transplant Congress
Heavy Water and Hydrogen Gas Confer Protection Against Hepatic Cold Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Isolated Perfused Rat Liver
Purpose The present study was designed to determine whether heavy water containing solution (Dsol) for cold preservation and hydrogen gas for reperfusion conferred protection in…2013 American Transplant Congress
Gene Expression Assessment in Kidney Transplant Biopsies To Predict Outcomes in Antibody-Mediated Rejection
Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is a major cause of kidney transplant failure, but the determinants of outcome are poorly defined. We hypothesized that disease activity and…2013 American Transplant Congress
Preexisting Donor Specific Antibody (DSA) with a Negative Flow Crossmatch (FCXM) Should Not Preclude Kidney Transplantation
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
Background: DSA is associated with increased risk for acute antibody mediated rejection (AMR). The optimal immunosuppression strategy for FCXM negative (-) DSA positive (+) renal…
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