2016 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Usefulness of mRECIST Response to Chemoembolization for Recurrence Prediction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Background Predicting risk for recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) following living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is clinically important.Methods We performed a retrospective study for assessment…2016 American Transplant Congress
Refill-Based Immunosuppression Non-Adherence Is Associated with Increased Death Censored Graft Loss.
Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Introduction Medication non-adherence is a major contributor of graft loss in kidney transplant(KTX) recipients. We aim to evaluate the association of immunosuppression non-adherence to graft…2016 American Transplant Congress
Fluctuation of Renal Function During the First Year Is Associated with Negative Impact on Long-Term Kidney Graft Survival: A Retrospective, Propensity Score-Matched Study.
Background: Post-transplant renal function in the first year has been reported to predict long-term renal graft survival. The present study examined whether the fluctuation of…2016 American Transplant Congress
Association Between Pretransplant Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Living Kidney Transplantation: A Consideration of Gender Differences.
[lsaquo]Background[rsaquo]There is epidemiologic evidence of an association between elevated body mass index (BMI), the progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). For…2016 American Transplant Congress
Negative Impact of Anticardiolipid Antibodies on 1-Year Renal Allograft Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate: A Cohort Study.
In kidney transplant recipients, antiphospholipid positive tests without antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) were described up to 38% of patients and seem to be associated with thrombotic…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Kidney Donors Older Than 80 Years Does Not Affect Graft Survival in the Medium Term.
1Nephrology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain; 2Nephrology, Hospital de León, Leon, Spain.
INTRODUCTION:Kidney transplantation is the best option for renal replacement therapy. One of its main limitations is the organs shortage. We analyzed the results in kidney…2016 American Transplant Congress
Appraisal of Alternative Immunosuppression Regimens in Intestinal Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Experience.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes (acute cellular rejection, graft loss, mortality) in intestinal transplant recipients who were converted from the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Sepsis Prolongs Allograft Survival Compared with Non-Septic Infection in a Murine Model of Skin Transplantation and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pneumonia.
Emory Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Concurrent infections have been shown to increase risk of transplant rejection via enhanced innate immune activation and increased T cell alloreactivity. In some cases, these…2016 American Transplant Congress
Rapamycin Prolongs Cardiac Allograft Survival in a Mouse Model by Inducing Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells.
Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors are the main immunosuppressive drugs for organ transplant recipients. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which mTOR inhibitors induce immunosuppression is…2016 American Transplant Congress
Neighborhood Poverty and Gender Disparities in Access to Live Donor Kidney Transplantation.
Women are less likely to receive a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) than men, but little is known about the contribution of poverty to this…
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