2013 American Transplant Congress
Is There a Clinically Meaningful Difference between "Preformed" and "De Novo" Alloantibodies in Negative Crossmatch Renal Transplantation?
Researchers have long categorized DSA into 2 types: preformed and de novo. However, there have been no studies that directly compare the 2 entities. Herein,…2013 American Transplant Congress
Tighter Pretransplant Glycemic Control Is Associated with Reduced Cardiovascular Events after Kidney Transplant in Diabetic Patients at 5 and 10 Year Follow-Up
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
Data on the impact of pretransplant glycemic control on posttransplant cardiovascular (CV) outcome and survival is limited and inconsistent. We hypothesized that tighter glycemic control…2013 American Transplant Congress
First Year Mild Renal Insufficiency Associated with Increased Mortality after Heart Transplant
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
BACKGROUND: Renal failure has been a consistent risk factor for mortality after heart transplantation. From the ISHLT Registry approximately one third of patients have an…2013 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes Following Positive Crossmatch Renal Transplantation Despite Failure To Convert to Negative Flow Crossmatch after Desensitization
Purpose: Determine outcomes of positive crossmatch (PXM) renal transplant recipients that failed to convert to negative flow cytometry crossmatch (FCXM) despite desensitization.Methods: All patients that…2013 American Transplant Congress
North American Results from the Multicenter Randomized Trial of Everolimus vs Mycophenolate Mofetil in Heart Transplantation
Purpose: 24-month (M) results of a randomized, open-label, multinational study (A2310) comparing efficacy and safety of everolimus (EVR) and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in de novo…2013 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Hepatitis C Recurrence in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients Receiving Antibody Induction Versus No Antibody Induction
Purpose: Compare the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) recurrence in orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) recipients receiving induction to subjects that were transplanted without induction…2013 American Transplant Congress
Determinants of Late Acute Rejection in Pediatric & Adolescent Kidney Transplant Recipients
Pediatric Nephrology, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
Background: Long-term graft function has not kept pace with short-term graft survival in children. Late Acute Rejection (LAR) episodes are in part responsible for the…2013 American Transplant Congress
Nonmyeloablative Conditioning Regimen with B Cell Depletion and Long-Term Outcome of HLA Mismatched Combined Kidney and Bone Marrow Transplantation without Maintenance Immunosuppression
Background: We report the long-term results (up to 10 years) of one-haplotype HLA mismatched kidney transplantation without maintenance immunosuppression (IS) following combined kidney and bone…2013 American Transplant Congress
Factors Implicated in the Expression of Selenium Binding Protein 1 in Chronic Allograft Vasculopathy
Background: Selenium binding protein-1 (SBP-1) has been implicated in intracellular protein trafficking and secretion. In a rhesus monkey kidney transplant model we previously demonstrated that…2013 American Transplant Congress
Where Are the Real Barriers in Post Mortem Organ Donation?
Low organ donation rate from deceased donors (DD) is believed to result from the societal misperception and non-acceptance of brain death.However, it has been shown…
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