2016 American Transplant Congress
Peer Mentoring to Improve Access to Kidney Transplantation in the Southeast.
BACKGROUND The Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition's (SEKTC) mission is to improve the low kidney transplantation (KTx) rate in the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Share35 Liver Allocation Is Associated with Increased Early Graft Failure Rate.
Background: The implementation of Share35 liver allocation policy in June 2013 facilitated the increase in number of transplanted livers with less organ discards. Early analysis…2016 American Transplant Congress
Incidence and Indications for Pancreatectomy After Late Pancreas Allograft Failure.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
There is little information about incidence, indications and risk factors for late allograft pancreatectomy (PTX) in patients with ongoing immunosuppression for a functional kidney allograft.We…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Treatment of Borderline Lesion in Protocol Biopsies Did Not Improve the Outcome in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Introduction. Up to 30% of patients with protocol biopsies and stable renal function have borderline lesions. His relationship with acute rejection remains uncertain, as does…2016 American Transplant Congress
Center-Level Variation in Association Between Early Hospital Readmission and Survival Following Kidney Transplantation.
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Background: Early hospital readmission (EHR) following kidney transplantation (KT) is associated with inferior survival. However, incidence of EHR varies significantly across center following KT. Recent…2016 American Transplant Congress
Sociodemographic and Comorbidity Differences Between Dialysis, Waitlisted and Transplant Patients in the UK: Findings from the ATTOM Study.
IntroductionAccess to Transplantation and Transplant Outcome Measures (ATTOM) is a prospective cohort study involving all 72 UK renal units, investigating factors affecting access to and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Results of a Phase 1 Trial of Treg Adoptive Cell Transfer (TRACT) in De Novo Living Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients.
1Northwestern University, Chicago; 2NMH, Chicago; 3TRACT Therapeutics, Chicago.
Therapeutic cell transfer using regulatory T cells (Tregs) holds the promise of reducing the need for drug based immunosuppression (IS) and improving long term graft…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…
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