2016 American Transplant Congress
Sirolimus Regimen and Viral Serology as Risk Factors for Outcomes of Adult Kidney Transplants: 14-Year Cumulative Data in the United States.
Department of Medicine, Univ. of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL.
BACKGROUND: The relative risks for patient mortality, graft loss and malignancy in the five years following kidney-only transplant (KT) based on sirolimus (SRL) regimen at…2016 American Transplant Congress
Treatments Against Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Could Influence FGF23 and Klotho Levels in Renal Transplant Recipients.
Purpose: Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor ( ACEI) and angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) are frequently used in post transplant hypertension. Recent trials reported that renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system…2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Depleting Antibody Induction in Kidney Transplantation: A Paired Kidney Analysis.
Nephrology and Hypertension, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
Induction therapy can improve graft survival following kidney transplantation. Organ quality, a major determinant of graft outcomes may act as a confounder in comparative studies…2016 American Transplant Congress
Utility of Six-Minute-Walk Distance in Predicting Lung Transplant Benefit in the Lung Allocation Score Era.
Transplant physicians evaluate patients for lung transplant (LTx) who are on ventilators and ECMO with high lung allocation scores (LAS). Six-minute walk distance (6MWD) predicts…2016 American Transplant Congress
Combination of Veto Cell Transfer and iNKT Cell Therapy Establishes Complete Hematopoietic Chimerism in Non-Myeloablative BMT Recipients.
Hematopoietic chimerism after non-myeloablative bone marrow transplantation (nmBMT) has been found beneficial for establishment of transplant tolerance. Since bone marrow cells (BMCs) are endowed with…2016 American Transplant Congress
Would Transplanting Kidneys Currently Being Discarded in the US Place Programs at Risk for Regulatory Review?
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis.
In the US in 2014, 17,188 potential kidneys were available from 8594 deceased donors (2014 SRTR/OPTN Annual Data Report). Of these, 25% were not recovered…
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