Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 163 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Tocilizumab as Treatment for Persistent Chronic Active Antibody Mediated Rejection.
H. Fernandez, S. Patel, M. Chiles, L. Ratner, R. Crew.
Columbia University Medical Center, NYC.
Intro: CAAMR is an increasingly recognized cause of renal allograft failure with limited treatment options. Many patients with CAAMR have engagement of both T and…
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IVIG and High Dose Steroid Treatment of Transplant Glomerulopathy Effectively Slows Progression of Loss of Renal Allograft Function.
K. Sablik,¹ C. Looman,² M. Clahsen-van Groningen,³ J. Damman,³ D. Roelen,⁴ M. van Agteren,¹ M. Betjes.¹
¹Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC University Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Biostatistics, Erasmus MC University Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³Pathology, Erasmus MC University Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ⁴Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Introduction Transplant glomerulopathy (TG) is commonly associated with chronic antibody mediated rejection and is a major cause of late kidney allograft loss with no established…
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Serum Levels of Soluble Myeloid Antigens After Kidney Allograft Transplantation.
I. Striz, E. Cecrdlova, A. Sekerkova, J. Slatinska, V. Svachova, O. Viklicky.
Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Prague, Czech Republic.
Mononuclear phagocytes and neutrophils play a key role in early responses against the transplanted kidney allograft. It is expected that during the reperfusion of kidney…
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Early Changes to Kidney Distribution Under the New Kidney Allocation System.
A. Massie,¹ X. Luo,¹ B. Lonze,¹ N. Desai,¹ A. Bingaman,² M. Cooper,³ D. Segev.¹
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²Methodist, San Antonio; ³Georgetown, Washington.
In December 2014, the Kidney Allocation System (KAS), a major change to kidney allocation, was implemented, granting increased priority to younger candidates and candidates with…
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Early Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in Highly Sensitized Patients.
D. Mompoint-Williams, R. Gaston, G. Jeremy, J. Locke, V. Kumar.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
PurposeHighly sensitized (HS) patients, defined as a PRA of 99-100% are awarded additional priority points in the new KAS instituted December 2014. We evaluated the…
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Persufflation Improves Viability and Function of Porcine Kidneys Relative to Static Cold Storage.
C. Min,¹ L. Steyn,² A. Pandey,³ R. Harland,² J.-P. Galons,⁴ K. Papas.²
¹Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; ²Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; ³Electrical and Chemical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; ⁴Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
The use of marginal organs demands optimization of organ storage and quality assessments prior to transplantation. Organs from donors after cardiac death (DCD) are exposed…
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Prolonged Normothermic Ex Vivo Kidney Perfusion Is a Safe Preservation Technique for Kidney Transplantation: A New Opportunity for the Storage, Assessment and Repair of Kidney Grafts.
J. Kaths,^1,2,3 J. Echeverri,¹ N. Goldaracena,¹ K. Louis,¹ Y.-M. Chun,¹ I. Linares,^1,3 A. Wiebe,¹ P. Yip,⁵ R. John,⁵ I. Mucsi,⁶ A. Ghanekar,¹ D. Bagli,^7,3 D. Grant,¹ L. Robinson,^2,3 M. Selzner.^1,3
¹Department of Surgery, Multi Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Nephrology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Department of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany; ⁵Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁶Department of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁷Departments of Surgery (Urology) & Physiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hypothermic kidney storage causes preservation injury. We investigated whether SCS can be safely replaced with prolonged normothermic ex vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP). Right kidneys were…
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Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Allograft Recipients with Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) Risk Alleles from Living Kidney Donors.
C. Dorr,^1,2,3 A. Hart,^1,2,3 D. Schladt,¹ A. Muthusamy,¹ R. Mannon,⁴ W. Oetting,² A. Matas,² P. Jacobson,² A. Israni.^1,2,3
¹Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; ³Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis; ⁴University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Background:Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) alleles G1 and G2 in deceased donors are associated with poor kidney allograft survival. However, the effect of these alleles in living…
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Retroperitoneal versus Intraperitoneal Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: A Case Matched Study.
Z. Ahmed, M. Sait, R. Tamburrini, R. Uwechue, P. Chandak, N. Kessaris, N. Mamode.
Abdominal Transplant Unit, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Although hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) has become a standard of care for living kidney procurement in most centres it is not clear if…
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Ex-Vivo Normothermic Perfusion for Assessment of High Risk Deceased Donor Kidneys for Transplantation.
S. Kabagambe, I. Palma, Y. Smolin, T. Boyer, I. Palma, J. Sageshima, C. Santhanakrishnan, C. Troppmann, J. McVicar, R. Perez.
Surgery, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, CA.
Despite the organ shortage, many procured deceased donor kidneys are deemed too high risk for failure and discarded. Ex-vivo normothermic perfusion (EVNP) may be useful…