2013 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Outcomes from Pancreata from Donation after Circulatory Death to Donation after Brain Death in a Small Rural Program
Background: Providing access to pancreas transplant in a rural center with an aging population and low crime rate can be challenging. However, the patients served…2013 American Transplant Congress
Reduced Health Literacy in Kidney Transplant Recipients May Be Associated with Difficulty Identifying a Live Kidney Donor
Introduction: Health literacy (HL) may be a mediator for known socioeconomic (SES) and racial disparities in live kidney donation and provide a target for interventions…2013 American Transplant Congress
6 Minute Walk Distance and Physical Component Score, but Not Sarcopenia, Are Associated with Pre-Transplant Mortality in Patients with End Stage Liver Disease
Sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass) is commonly seen in patients with end stage liver disease (ESLD). Reduction in health related quality of life and decline…2013 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Immunosuppression Maintenance after Failed Kidney Transplant on Panel Reactive Antibody (PRA) for Retransplantation, a Single Center Experience
Hume-Lee Transplant Center, VCUHS, Richmond, VA
Background: Most patients who failed kidney transplant become sensitized. It is uncertain whether maintaining immunosuppression with or without nephrectomy after the allograft failure will prevent…2013 American Transplant Congress
Second Role of Donor MHC Class I: Prevention of Microcirculation Injury and Alternative Macrophage Activation, The
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
We previously showed that IFNG is necessary to stabilize mouse kidney allografts during T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR): lack of IFNG, IFNG receptors, or the class…2013 American Transplant Congress
Predictive Value of HLA Antibody Characteristics for Progression of Subclinical Antibody Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplant Recipients
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Concomitant C4d and C3d detection in heart biopsies correlates with circulating DSA and graft dysfunction. Detection of C4d only in surveillance biopsies is not associated…2013 American Transplant Congress
Defect in the Th17 Pathway Worsens Renal Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy after Ischemic Acute Kidney Injury
Background: Ischemic acute kidney injury (AKI), which is inherent to kidney transplantation, is associated with the detrimental development of interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy (IF/TA). IL-17A, the…2013 American Transplant Congress
Quantitative Relationship of Luminex Single Antigen Bead Assay (LSA), Antibody Titration and Flow Crossmatch in Heart Transplantation – A Data Analysis of 5 Years Clinical Testing
Clinical Transplantation Immunology Lab, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Donor selecting avoiding unacceptable HLA antigens (UAs) efficiently facilities heart transplant without performing a final flow crossmatch (FCXM) prior to transplant. Luminex single antigen bead…2013 American Transplant Congress
Molecular Landscape of T Cell-Mediated Rejection: The T Cell Synapse Emerges, The
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
The molecular landscape of T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR) is obscured by secondary inflammation and injury. We hypothesized the transcripts most highly associated with TCMR would…2013 American Transplant Congress
Correlations of In Vitro Islet Potency Tests with Clinical Islet Auto-Transplant Outcome
There is a critical need for real-time in vitro islet characterization assays that are predictive of clinical transplant outcomes (CTO), but none is available so…
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