2016 American Transplant Congress
Live Donor Champion Program: Time to Redefine Living Liver Donation.
UVA Surgery, Charlottesville, VA.
Live Donor Champion (LDC) Programs promote the advocacy for living donor transplantation by patients' family members or friends. Hereby, we conducted a prospective 9 month…2016 American Transplant Congress
Potential Applications of Viral miRNA Assays in the Management of Transplant Patients with Polyomavirus BK Infection.
Background: BKV encodes two miRNAs from a single precursor: BKV-miR-B1-5p & BKV-JCV-miR-BJ1-3p. These viral miRNAs direct cleavage of large T antigen mRNAs, downregulate viral T…2016 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of the Major Adverse Cardiac Events Risk with Everolimus-Based Calcineurin Inhibitor Reduction or Withdrawal Regimen in Liver Transplant Recipients: 3-Year Post-Hoc Analysis of the Randomized H2304 Extension Study.
1Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland; 2Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hannover.
Purpose:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death in liver transplant recipients (LTxRs). Impaired glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a risk factor…2016 American Transplant Congress
High-Risk Pharmacogenetic (PGx) Variants in Kidney Transplant (tx) Recipients.
1UofMN, Mpls; 2MMRF, Mpls; 3HCMC, Mpls; 4UAB, Birmingham.
Kidney tx recipients carry a high burden of comorbidities, and some of the medications for these conditions have genetic predictors of efficacy and toxicity. These…2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Morbid Obesity on Breakthrough CMV Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of obesity on risk for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection after kidney transplantation as well as…2016 American Transplant Congress
Visceral Adiposity Is Associated with Increased Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following Liver Transplantation.
Abdominal Transplant, Columbia University, Ny, NY.
IntroductionObesity has become a worldwide epidemic. The number of patients with HCC undergoing Orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is rising. Epidemiologic evidence suggests a link between…2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of DCD Livers.
Liver transplantation benefits registrants with MELD≥18. However, this benefit no doubt varies by donor characteristics, and the benefit of DCD livers remains unclear.Methods: We used…2016 American Transplant Congress
Deceased Organ Donor Management: Does Hospital Volume Matter?
Purpose: Despite the association between hospital volume and outcomes for various diseases, there have been no studies to assess the impact of hospital organ donor…2016 American Transplant Congress
Viral Gastroenteritis in Adult and Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Patients.
BACKGROUND. Diarrhea in SOT recipients is common and often attributed to immunosuppressive drug side effects. However, enteric viruses are important causes of acute gastroenteritis and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Human MicroRNA Responses Are Predictive of CMV Reactivation Following Solid Organ Transplant.
Background: Human microRNA (miRNA) can suppress gene expression through binding to the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of the target mRNA. In silico analysis shows that,…
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