2016 American Transplant Congress
Modified Normothermic Extracorporeal Liver Perfusion for Discarded Human Livers.
Introduction: Donor organ shortages have led to increased interest in finding new approaches to recover organs from extended criteria donors (ECD). Normothermic ex-vivo liver perfusion…2016 American Transplant Congress
Tracking of Endogenous Graft-Reactive Tregs Reveals Their Peripheral Enrichment During Transplantation Tolerance.
Purpose: Our goal for this study was to determine the relative fates of endogenous Foxp3- conventional (Tconv) and Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) specific for…2016 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced IL-6 Production Impedes Transplant Tolerance Induction in Lupus-Prone Mice.
Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Significance: Autoimmunity is a significant barrier to transplantation. Based on previous studies, it is apparent that there are separate genetic regions that control susceptibility to…2016 American Transplant Congress
Pregnancy Outcomes in 17 Female Heart Transplant Recipients with the Initial Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Defect.
The purpose of this study was to describe pregnancy in female heart recipients whose indication for transplantation was due to congenital heart defect. Data were…2016 American Transplant Congress
How Did the New Kidney and Pancreas Allocation Systems Effect Pancreas Utilization in the First Six-Months?
Background: In 2010 a new pancreas allocation system (PAS) was approved by the OPTN and implemented in October 2014, shortly preceding the new kidney allocation…2016 American Transplant Congress
CTLA4 Negatively Regulates Donor-Reactive CXCR5+PD1+ T Follicular Helper Cell Responses Following Transplantation.
1Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta; 2Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton.
Costimulation blockade of the CD28 pathway in the form of CTLA4Ig is known to attenuate T cell dependent antibody responses. T follicular helper (Tfh) cells…2016 American Transplant Congress
Blocking MHC Class II on Human Endothelium Mitigates Acute Rejection of Vessel Allografts by Effector Memory T Cells.
Acute allograft rejection is mediated by alloreactive CD8+ T cells that differentiate into cytotoxic lymphocytes (CTL). In most rodent models, CTL differentiate from naïve CD8+…2016 American Transplant Congress
Infectious Complication in Extremely Elderly Kidney Transplant (KT) Recipients: A Leading Cause of Death.
Introduction: The incidence of infection after KT have been reported to directly increase with recipient's age, likely due to the combined effect of co-morbidities and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Adherence Patterns in Adolescent and Young Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Poor adherence to immunosuppressive medications limits long-term renal allograft survival. Using data from the 3-month run-in (no intervention) of the randomized trial TAKE-IT, which tests…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Readmission following Kidney Transplantation: Is Readmission Becoming More Risky?
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
BACKGROUND: Following kidney transplantation, 31% of recipients experience early hospital readmission (EHR) and readmission is independently associated with increased risk of graft loss and mortality.…
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