2013 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Socio-Demographic Variables on the Pathology on Living Kidney Donors
Purpose: Living kidney donation is the preferred therapy for kidney transplant recipients and outcomes of living donors have been overall excellent. There are no histological…2013 American Transplant Congress
Feasibility of Organ Donation on ECMO: An Analysis of Kidney and Liver Allograft Data
Introduction: ECMO has become rescue therapy for adults with overwhelming cardiac and/or respiratory failure. Despite improving outcomes, not all patients are saved, creating a new…2013 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Recipient BMI: Implications for ECD Renal Transplantation
Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Introduction: Donor and recipient obesity appear to be independent risk factors for renal graft failure (GF). In the ECD context, this additional risk might increase…2013 American Transplant Congress
Role of Increased Autophagic Flux in Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells Undergoing Warm Reperfusion (WR) after Cold Ischemia (CI), The
Delayed graft function (DGF) is primarily caused by cold ischemia (CI) and warm reperfusion (WR). The mechanism by which CI/WR causes renal tubular epithelial cell…2013 American Transplant Congress
Induction Immunosuppression and Subclinical Viremia in Pediatric Renal Transplantation
Background: Infection is the leading cause of hospitalization in pediatric renal transplant recipients. The impact of specific immunosuppressive agents on the incidence of infectious complications…2013 American Transplant Congress
Specific miRNA’s and Their Downstream Targets Are Associated with Acute Rejection in Pediatric Renal Allografts
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco; Stanford University, Stanford
BACKGROUND: miRNA’s are small RNA molecules involved in post-transcription mRNA regulation. A single miRNA may target whole functional pathways. miRNA's have been implicated to play…2013 American Transplant Congress
High Incidence of De Novo Post-Transplant Skin Cancer among Caucasian Recipients after Kidney Transplantation – An Analysis of OPTN/UNOS Data
Mendez National Institute of Transplantation, LA, CA; USC Keck School of Medicine, LA, CA
Background. Organ transplant recipients are at high risk of post-transplant skin cancer (PTSC) which presents a clinical challenge to physicians. It has been reported that…2013 American Transplant Congress
Development of New Onset Hypertension in Living Kidney Donors: Are Multiple Renal Arteries a Risk Factor?
Background After donation, multiple renal arteries(MA) a remaining kidney may increase the risk of hypertension (HTN). Method This study is a continuation of previous cohort…2013 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus Aggravates Tacrolimus-Induced Pancreatic Injury by Pharmacologic Interaction between Everolimus and Tacrolimus
This study was conducted to investigate the pharmacologic interaction between EVR and TAC at the blood and pancreas level. Male Sprague-Dawley (SD) was administrated with…2013 American Transplant Congress
Single Versus Dual Kidney Discards: A Detailed Analysis
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
An ideal kidney allocation system should maximize organ utilization and minimize organ discard rates. It is important to understand the most common reasons why kidneys…
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