Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 114 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Evaluation of Dose Dependent Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction in Risk-Stratified Kidney Transplant Recipients.
I. Gutman, M. Misel, D. McKay, A. Hemming, J. Kerr, K. Mekeel.
UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, CA.
Background: Rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) is a depleting polyclonal antibody often used for induction following kidney transplantation to help prevent acute rejection. The optimal dosage…
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Induction Therapy in Low Risk African American Kidney Transplant Recipients: Donor Factors.
F. Al Ammary,¹ S. Bae,¹ A. Massie,¹ N. Dagher,¹ E. King,¹ A. Wiseman,² D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²CU, Denver.
African Americans (AA) are at a higher risk of acute rejection and graft loss compared to non-AA kidney transplant (KT) recipients. Guidelines specify induction choices…
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The Environmental Impact of Dialysis vs Transplantation.
M. Grafals,¹ R. Sanchez.²
¹Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; ²Environmental Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Introduction: Hemodialysis has a large environmental impact because it uses large volumes of water, medical supplies and energy. A patient undergoing weekly dialysis treatment (three…
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Reprogram Macrophage Polarization and Attenuate Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury by Regulating Notch/Cox2/PGE2 Signaling Pathway.
C. Li,¹ S. Yue,¹ R. Busuttil,¹ J. Kupiec-Weglinski,¹ B. Ke.¹
¹The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Background and aims: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been shown an immune modulatory properties and tissue repairing capability under inflammatory conditions. However, it is unknown…
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Creation of a Small Animal Model of Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion (EVNP) for Treatment of Kidney Ischemia-Reperfusion (I/R) Injury.
Y. Smolin, I. Palma, C. Pivetti, S. Kabagambe, J. Woloszyn, Y. Chen, T. Boyer, I. Palma, J. Sageshima, C. Santhanakrishnan, R. Perez.
Department of Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.
Purpose: Recent studies have suggested that EVNP may be utilized to assess and repair marginal donor organs subjected to severe I/R injury. The lack of…
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Prolonged Cold Ischemia Time Negatively Impacts Graft and Recipient Survival in a Murine Orthotopic Hindlimb Transplant Model.
N. Datta, S. Devaney, A. Allen, R. Busuttil, K. Azari, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.
Department of Surgery, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: The safe maximum cold preservation time remains unknown in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA), yet is of critical clinical significance. VCAs with a large muscular…
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Living Kidney Donor Preferences: A Novel Use of a Visual Instrument to Quantify ESRD Risk Acceptance.
C. Thiessen,¹ J. Gannon,¹ D. Dobosz,¹ S. Li,¹ D. Gray,² A. Mussell,² K. Kennedy,³ L. Skrip,¹ E. Gordon,³ P. Reese,² S. Kulkarni.¹
¹Yale U, New Haven; ²U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia; ³Northwestern U, Chicago.
BackgroundGiven new data about the estimated lifetime risk of ESRD among living kidney donors (LKD) (Muzaale 2014), we elicited their willingness to accept the risk…
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Low-Pressure Pneumoperitoneum in Living Kidney Donors: An Age-Dependent Analysis of Recipient Outcomes.
S. Kulkarni,¹ S. Douglas,² E. Cohen,¹ S. Swift,¹ I. Hall.²
¹Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; ²Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Purpose: Implementation of low-pressure laparoscopy may be facilitated by the use of valveless, recirculating trocar systems that have less intra-abdominal pressure variability, providing adequate surgical…
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Hydrogen Sulfide Supplementation Helps Mitigate Effects of Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in a Murine Model of Donation After Cardiac Death Renal Transplantation.
J. Grewal,¹ I. Lobb,¹ M. Saha,² J. Jiang,² A. Haig,¹ A. Sener.^1,2
¹Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; ²Matthew Mailing Centre for Translational Transplant Studies, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada.
Donation after cardiac death(DCD) renal grafts experience a combination of prolonged warm and cold ischemia leading to greater ischemia reperfusion injury(IRI) that results in higher…
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Imminent Death Donation: Potential Effects on Organ Donation Numbers and Clinical Outcomes.
V. Potluri,¹ S. Nazarian,² M. Levine,² P. Reese.³
¹Internal Medicine, Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood; ²Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; ³Renal Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Attempts at donation after cardiac death (DCD) lead to organ transplantation only among 70% of eligible DCDs. Imminent death donation (IDD) is ante-mortem donation of…