Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 144 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Comparison of Efficacy of Different Regimens for Treating Recurrent IgA Nephropathy After Kidney Transplantation.
G. Chen, C. Wang, L. Chen, J. Qiu, C. Wang, J. Fei, S. Deng, J. Li, G. Huang, Q. Fu.
Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Background Recurrent IgA nephropathy is a common complication after kidney transplantation. How to treat recipients with recurrent IgA nephropathy is still controversial. There are two…
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Long-Term Renal Allograft Outcome After Parathyroidectomy.
M. Patecki, I. Scheffner, H. Haller, W. Gwinner.
Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Parathyroidectomy (PTx) after kidney transplantation (Tx) has been reported to have adverse effects on the allograft. In this study, we analyzed the course of patients…
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Diabetes Mellitus and Kidney Transplant Outcomes.
A. Mehrnia,¹ A. Wang,¹ W. Chaiwatcharayut,² E. Huang,¹ S. Bunnapradist.¹
¹Nephrology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ²Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein University, Bronx, NY.
Background:This study investigates the impact of pre-existing (PDM) and new onset diabetes (NODAT) on the graft and patient survival after kidney transplant.Methods:The UNOS database was…
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Is SVR Associated with Improved Hepatic Function in Hepatitis C Gen 1 Pts with Cirrhosis 1 Year After Completing Treatment with Sofosbuvir + Simeprevir +/- Ribavirin?
A. Modi,¹ J. Hermann,¹ H. Nazario,² S. Gonzalez,¹ J. Gripshover,³ M. Gautam,¹ J. Weinstein,² D. Potosky,³ M. Barnes,² A. Habib,² P. Mantry,² J. Trotter.¹
¹Liver Consultants of Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; ²Liver Institute Methodist, Dallas, TX; ³University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Combination antiviral therapy involving Sofosbuvir (SOF) & Simeprevir (SIM) +/- Ribavirin (RBV) is a relatively safe & effective Tx option in pts with gen…
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The Distance Between Us: The Landscape of Recipient-Specific Loss-of-Function in Solid Organ Transplantation and Association with Rejection-Free Graft Survival.
B. Cole,^1,2,5 J. van Setten,^3,5 B. Keating.^1,4,5
¹Department of Surgery, The Penn Transplant Institute, Philadelphia, PA; ²Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Philadelphia, PA; ³Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; ⁴Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ⁵The Omics Working Group, iGeneTRAiN Consortium, Philadelphia, PA.
Purpose: This study aims to comprehensively identify genes that are inactivated in both copies in transplant recipients but not in their respective donors, uncovering a…
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Inclusion of Human Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor or Thrombomodulin Transgenes Attenuates Critical Consumptive Thrombocytopenia in Cardiac Xenotransplantation.
J. Chan,¹ A. Singh,¹ P. Corcoran,¹ M. Thomas III,² B. Lewis,² D. Ayares,³ K. Horvath,¹ M. Mohiuddin.¹
¹Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; ²Division of Veterinary Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; ³Revivicor Inc., Blacksburg, VA.
ObjectiveA major obstacle in the success of cardiac xenotransplantation has been the development of significant consumptive thrombocytopenia, frequently limiting recipient survival. Advances in genetic engineering…
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Conditional Long Term Intestine Patient and Graft Survival Is Improving Under rATG Immunosuppression in Pediatric Intestine Transplantation.
N. Celik,¹ F. Vyas,¹ G. Bond,¹ K. Soltys,¹ J. Rudolph,² R. Sindhi,¹ G. Mazariegos.¹
¹Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Intestinal Care and Rehabilitation Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.
Aim: We reviewed conditional graft survival and short and long term improvements in children receiving rATG (rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin) immunosuppression for intestine transplantation at a…
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Hematopoietic Cell Transplant and Solid Organ Transplantation: A First Report of the U.S. Experience.
M. Gupta, M. Levine, P. Abt.
Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
The prevalence of patients who receive both a hematopoetic cell(HCT) and solid organ transplantation(SOT) is rising. There have been no large scale studies of HCT…
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Live Donor Champion Program: Time to Redefine Living Liver Donation.
D. Maluf, A. Sites, M. Donovan, J. Wang, E. Lyster, C. Argo.
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…
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Potential Applications of Viral miRNA Assays in the Management of Transplant Patients with Polyomavirus BK Infection.
P. Randhawa, G. Zeng, Y. Huang.
Department of Pathology, The Thomas E Starzl Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
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…