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2020 American Transplant Congress
Hypernatremia Predicts Waitlist Death and Deterioration, but Not Post-Transplant Outcomes in Pediatric Liver Transplant Candidates
L. Thalji¹, N. Thalji², S. Ibrahim³, J. Heimbach², P. Kamath⁴, D. Haile¹, D. Kor¹
¹Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Pediatric Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁴Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Pre-transplant hypernatremia has been shown to predict post-transplant mortality in adult liver transplant (LT) recipients. The effects of hypernatremia in children, however, remain unexplored.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transient Elastography to Evaluate Steatosis in Candidate Living Donors for Liver Transplantation
E. Palte¹, J. Duong², H. Remotti³, J. Burt³, A. Griesemer⁴, B. Samstein⁵, D. Marratta⁶, A. N. Fox⁷
¹Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, ²Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, ³Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁴Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁵Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁷Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) increases the donor pool and affords a life-saving cure to recipients who do not have MELD-based access to allografts.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ischemic and Perfused Kidney Treated with Non-Cultured Adipose-Derived Regenerative Cells Increase the Immune and Regulatory Transcriptome
R. Lathan¹, R. Ghita¹, R. Touyz¹, M. Clancy², P. Mark¹
¹Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Renal Transplant Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Studies in our rat model of ischemic reperfusion injury (IRI) demonstrate improved kidney function post injection of non-cultured autologous adipose-derived regenerative cells (ADRC). The…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Tracking Tregs in a Non-Human Primate Model with Expanded Autologous Treg Infusions In Vivo
K. Bruestle¹, B. Piegari¹, H. Sakai¹, F. Fredriksson¹, D. Ekanayake-Alper¹, S. Robertson², D. Hajosi², J. Weiner¹, A. Iuga³, S. M. Coley³, M. Sykes¹, A. Griesemer¹
¹Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University, New York City, NY, ²Institute for Comparative Medicine, Columbia University, New York City, NY, ³Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York City, NY
*Purpose: Regulatory Tcell (Treg) therapy is a promising tool for tolerance induction in solid organ transplantation. Despite encouraging results in humans and monkeys, questions about…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Renal Immunoproteasome Function: A Possible Cause for Macrophage Associated Organ Damage During Renal Transplantation?
N. Parajuli, A. Khakurel
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
*Purpose: A major hurdle in the field of renal transplantation is the shortage of suitable donor kidneys. Renal transplantation using living-donor organs perform better when…
2020 American Transplant Congress
What Happens When You Administer Mesenchymal Stromal Cells During Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Porcine Kidneys: Possible and Helpful or Not?
K. Rozenberg¹, L. Knijff¹, J. Sierra-Parraga², L. Lo Faro¹, M. Hoogduijn², C. Baan², J. Hunter¹, R. Ploeg¹
¹Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death kidneys are widely used to increase the donor pool, despite their inferior quality. Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) could provide a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Immune Response Following Cardiac Progenitor Cells Transplantation in Rat Myocardial Infarction Model
M. Gunasekaran, R. Mishra, S. Sharma, P. Saha, L. Wang, M. Yasir Arfat, X. Fu, S. Kaushal
Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs, c-kit+) are well-characterized stem cell type shown to potentiate cardiac regeneration in myocardial infarct (MI) model. However, auto and allo…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Novel Multidrug Combination to Defat Steatotic Rat Liver via Normothermic Machine Perfusion
M. Xu¹, F. Zhou¹, O. Ahmed¹, G. Upadhya¹, J. Jia¹, C. Lee¹, J. Xing¹, L. Ye¹, S. Shim¹, Z. Zhang¹, K. Byrnes², B. Wong¹, J. Kim¹, Y. Lin¹, W. Chapman¹
¹Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, ²Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Hepatic steatosis is now the leading cause of liver discards in deceased donors. Previous studies (Yarmush et al., Y defatting) have successfully reduced the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged Functional Human 3D Liver Organoids as an In Vitro Liver Disease Model
W. Zhang¹, A. Isidan¹, A. M. Chen¹, L. J. Smith², H. L. Francis³, G. Alpini³, E. Gramelspacher¹, P. Li¹, B. Ekser¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery - Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ²3D Bioprinting Core and Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences - Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, ³Division of Gastroenterology, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center and Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Animal models used for evaluating the mechanisms of liver disease do not fully mimic the complex architecture and metabolic functions of the human liver.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Building Kidneys from Stem Cells for Transplantation
I. M. Rogers¹, J. Whiteley², T. Chow², T. Bongolan², L. Mazilescu³, P. Urbanellis³, S. Ganesh³, M. Selzner³
¹Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²LTRI-Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³MOTU, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Our vision is to build a human kidney by combining human stem cells with porcine kidney extracellular matrix.*Methods: Kidneys were decellularized followed by repopulation…