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  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    What Are the Charges and Costs of Transplanting High MELD Patients?

    K. Bortecen, B. Gelb, A. Winnick, G. Morgan, L. Teperman.

    Transplant Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.

    Purpose: There is a significant variation in the MELD scores and subsequent morbidity among liver recipients in the US. Larger OPOs consistently serve patients with…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Pancreas Transplantation from Pediatric Donors: A UNOS Registry Analysis.

    M. Spaggiari, I. Tzvetanov, H. Jeon, E. Benedetti, J. Oberholzer.

    Division of Transplantation, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago.

    Introduction: Major concerns about the utilization of pediatric pancreata are the cumulative islet mass and the increased technical complexity. The primary aim of this study…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    CD4 T Cell Mediated Help Is Required for Intra-Allograft Proliferation of Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cells and Their Ability to Mediate Rejection of Cardiac Allografts Subjected to Prolonged Ischemia.

    H. Tsuda, T. Tanaka, C. Su, A. Valujskikh, R. Fairchild.

    Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    Memory T cells are critical components to protective immunity against recurrent pathogens, but memory T cells with donor-reactivity pose a major barrier to successful transplantation…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    A Risk Quantification Score for Heart Transplants: A Heart Donor Risk Index.

    A. Israni,1,2 D. Zaun,1 J. Snyder,1 N. Salkowski,1 H. Xiong,1 B. Kasiske,1,2 M. Colvin,1,3 M. Colvin.1,3

    1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; 2Hennepin County Medical Center, Univ of MN, Minneapolis; 3Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

    Background: To better risk stratify heart transplants, we developed a continuous heart donor risk index (HDRI) based on heart donors to quantify heart allograft failure.Methods:…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    DEPTOR Inhibits mTORC1 in CD4+ T Cells and Increases Treg Function by Stabilizing Foxp3 Expression.

    J. Wedel,1,2 S. Bruneau,1,2 D. Briscoe.1,2

    1Division of Nephrology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Transplant Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

    The modulation of PI-3K/Akt-induced signaling is critical for CD4+ Treg homeostasis and stability. Moreover, activation of PI-3K/Akt/mTOR signals within T cell subsets is associated with…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    TGFb in Regulatory B Cells-Dependent Tolerance.

    H. Deirawan, L. Kojima, L. Washburn, J. Markmann, J. Kim.

    Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

    In transplantation, increasing evidence support that B cells can play a major regulatory role in addition to their critical functions in allo-immunity and graft rejection.…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Transfer of Donor-Derived Exosomes to Recipient Ag-Presenting Cells Is Critical for Allograft Recognition.

    Q. Liu,1 D. Rojas-Canales,1 S. Divito,1 W. Shufesky,1 A. Larregina,2 A. Morelli.1

    1Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

    After organ transplantation, T cells are primed against donor MHC molecules by donor dendritic cells (DCs) mobilized from the graft. Nevertheless, evidence suggests that donor…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Successful Treatment of Established Acute Allograft Rejection with Delayed CTLA-4Ig.

    J. Young,1 J. Chen,1 D. Yin,1 R. Sciammas,2 V. Vu,1 M.-L. Alegre,3 A. Chong.1

    1Transplant Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX; 3Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

    Purpose: Our goal was to determine the efficacy and immune mechanisms of costimulation blockade by CTLA-4Ig when treatment begins after an immune response is already…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Pre-Transplant Infections on Post-Liver Transplant Outcomes.

    S. Ngo, J. Levitsky, M. Ison.

    Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Hematology and Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.

    Background: Pre- and Post-liver transplant infections are a common cause of morbidity and mortality in orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) patients. How pre-transplant infections affect early…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Financial Burdens and Coping Mechanisms of Living Kidney Donors.

    S. Li,1 C. Thiessen,1 J. Gannon,1 D. Dobosz,1 D. Gray,3 A. Mussell,3 K. Kennedy,2 P. Reese,3 E. Gordon,1 S. Kulkarni.2

    1Yale U, New Haven; 2Northwestern U, Chicago; 3U Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

    BackgroundFinancial disincentives remain a major barrier to increasing rates of living kidney donation. A recent study found that 96% of living kidney donors (LKD) reported…
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