2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Infusion of Extracorporeal Photopheresis Treated Donor Splenocytes Leads to Long-Term Liver Allograft Survival and Donor Specific Tolerance in Rats.
Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP), a procedure that exposes isolated WBC to photoactivatable 8-methoxypsoralen and ultraviolet A radiation, is used clinically to treat patients with cutaneous T-cell…2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Hospital Readmission Following Pediatric Kidney Transplantation.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
BACKGROUND: Approximately 31% of all adult kidney transplant (KT) recipients experience early hospital readmission and it is associated with inferior post-KT survival. Given the significant…2016 American Transplant Congress
Offering HCV-Positive Kidneys to HCV-Negative Patients on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist Is Lifesaving: Results of a Markov Model.
Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Background: Patients with ESRD on the transplant waitlist face substantial risks of dying without a transplant. Because 2/3 of kidneys from hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive…2016 American Transplant Congress
Immediate Introduction of Everolimus Does Not Affect Wound Healing and Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients: 3-Months Results from NEVERWOUND Study.
The NEVERWOUND study was designed to evaluate the impact of immediate vs. delayed introduction of everolimus (EVR) on wound healing complications (WHC) and delayed graft…2016 American Transplant Congress
Denosumab Prevents Bone Mineral Density Loss in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Background: Kidney transplantation is associated with bone loss and an increased risk of fracture. Since current therapeutic options to prevent bone loss are limited we…2016 American Transplant Congress
Associations of Risk Factors and Kidney Retransplant Outcomes Vary Between Three Common Induction Agents: Results from the Analysis of Over Ten-Thousand Cases in Ten Years.
Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
BACKGROUND: There is no published study comparing the significance of risk factors for graft outcomes associated with common induction regimens combined with tacrolimus and mycophenolate…2016 American Transplant Congress
Increasing Tacrolimus Time-in-Therapeutic Range Is Associated with Less Cellular Rejection in Lung Transplant Recipients.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Purpose: To describe the effect of tacrolimus (FK) time-in-therapeutic range (TTR) on incidence of cellular rejection (ACR) within the first year after lung transplantation (LT).Methods:…2016 American Transplant Congress
Serelaxin Decreases the Severity of Cold Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury After Liver Transplantation in Mice.
The Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Background. Extended cold preservation contributes to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), which impairs graft function and leads to poor clinical outcomes. Serelaxin (SER), a recombinant form of…2016 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Polyreactive Innate-Like B Cells Among Graft-Infiltrating B Cells in Human Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy.
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a leading cause of death in long-term heart transplant survivors. Dense B cell infiltrates are common in heart transplants with…2016 American Transplant Congress
Criteria for the Diagnosis of Microvascular Inflammation (MVI) in Kidney Transplant Biopsies (KTxBx).
The presence of MVI (Banff glomerulitis "g" score and Banff peritubular capillary "ptc" score) in KTxBx, often related to antibody mediated rejection (AMR), is associated…
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