2013 American Transplant Congress
Polymorphism of the Vitamin D Receptor and Risk of New-Onset Diabetes after Transplantation in Hispanic Kidney Transplant Recipients
Background: New-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is an important metabolic complication that increases risk of cardiovascular disease and is associated with lower allograft and patient…2013 American Transplant Congress
TIM-1 Mucin Domain Is Critical in Breg Development, Induction, and Functional Activity
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Bregs play a key role in immune tolerance by negatively regulating immune responses via IL-10. We showed that TIM-1 is an inclusive marker for IL-10+…2013 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allograft Function and Histology in Recipients Dying with a Functioning Graft
William von Liebig Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Introduction: Death with function (DWF) is a major cause of kidney allograft failure. However, few studies have examined the relationship between kidney allograft function and…2013 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Older Adults after Liver Transplantation in the MELD Era
Since 2002, MELD score has been the basis of liver allocation system. Among older adult liver transplant (LT) recipients, short-term outcomes in MELD era were…2013 American Transplant Congress
Higher IL10 Production by Transitional B Cells in Tolerant Kidney Transplant Recipients
Transplantation tolerance reduces the risk of infection, malignancy and cardiovascular disease caused by immunosupresive drugs. Indices of Tolerance revealed that tolerant kidney transplant recipients had…2013 American Transplant Congress
Combined Lung and Liver Transplantation: Analysis of a Single-Center Experience
Combined lung-liver transplantation (CLLTx) is emerging as a viable option for end-stage lung and liver disease patients not expected to survive either transplant alone. We…2013 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Resource Utilization between Three Induction Regimens in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Medicine, Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Induction therapy is commonly used in kidney transplantation due to its ability to decrease the frequency of early acute rejection; it is associated with higher…2013 American Transplant Congress
Indirect CD4 T Cell Allorecognition of MHC Class II Alloantigen Is Limited by Adaptive Immunity
Surgery, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
IntroductionWe have previously described a partially-mismatched [bm12.Kd.IE (IAbm12, IEd, Kd, Kb, Db) to C57BL/6] model of chronic cardiac allograft rejection, and demonstrated surprisingly that indirect…2013 American Transplant Congress
Laparoendoscopic Single Site Donor Nephrectomy Offers Better Cosmesis, and Comparable Surgical Outcomes to Conventional Retroperitoneoscopic Surgery
Objectives: Retroperitoneoscopic Donor Nephrectomy (RPLDN) has been our standard care for living donors, using 3 flank ports and Pfannenstiel extraction. Our conventional strategy for RPLDN…2013 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Time-Zero Biopsy Scoring of Ischaemia/Reperfusion Injury after Liver Transplantation, The
Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
IntroductionThe utility of time-zero biopsies after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) remains unclear. The aim of this study is to evaluate histological grade of ischaemia/reperfusion injury…
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