Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 50 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Predonation Prescription Narcotic Use: A Novel Risk Factor for Readmission After Living Donor Nephrectomy.
K. Lentine,^1,7 D. Segev,^2,1 D. Axelrod,³ N. Lam,⁴ A. Garg,⁵ G. Hess,⁶ B. Kasiske,¹ D. Brennan,⁸ H. Randall,⁷ M. Schnitzler.^7,1
¹Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis; ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; ³Dartmouth, Hanover; ⁴Univ Alberta, Alberta, Canada; ⁵Western Univ, London, Canada; ⁶Symphony Health, Pittsburgh; ⁷Saint Louis Univ, St. Louis.
Implications of narcotic use in living kidney donor (LKD) candidates for key outcomes, including readmission rates after nephrectomy, are unknown.We integrated 1) national Scientific Registry…
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Mining the Human Proteome for Monitoring Renal Transplant Injury.
T. Sigdel,¹ Y. Gao,² J. He,² A. Wang,¹ C. Nicora,² D. Smith,² W. Qian,² D. Camp,² M. Sarwal.¹
¹Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco; ²Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland.
The human urinary proteome reflects systemic and inherent renal injury perturbations and can be harnessed to define biomarkers for different kidney transplant injury states. Through…
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Analysis of Broken Chains in Kidney Paired Donation During an 8 Year Period within the National Kidney Registry.
N. Cowan,¹ J. Sinacore,² H. Gritsch,¹ J. Veale.¹
¹Department of Urology, University of California - Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; ²National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY.
Purpose: Chain transplantation in kidney paired donation (KPD) offers the ability to facilitate multiple kidney transplants between incompatible pairs using a non-directed donor (NDD) to…
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Hospitalization and Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Among Waitlisted End Stage Renal Disease Patients in the US.
K. Newman,^1,2 A. Adams,² S. Pastan,² R. Lynch,² R. Zhang,¹ R. Patzer.^1,2
¹Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; ²Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Background: For End Stage Renal Disease Patients (ESRD) waitlisted for a deceased donor kidney, living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) could allow for earlier transplantation and…
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Racial Differences Amongst Infants Undergoing Intestine Transplants.
K. Khan, C. Desai, S. Kaufman, R. Girlanda, J. Hawksworth, A. Kroemer, T. Fishbein, C. Matsumoto.
Transplant Institute, MedStar Geogetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
BackgroundIt is known that the demographics of the United States are changing because of immigration and increased birth rates in non-white populations. Here we examine…
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Late Renal Xenograft Failure Is Antibody-Mediated: Description of the Longest-Reported Survival in Pig-to-Primate Renal Xenotransplantation.
L. Higginbotham,¹ S. Kim,¹ D. Mathews,¹ A. Stephenson,¹ C. Breeden,¹ C. Larsen,¹ M. Ford,¹ K. Newell,¹ A. Tector,² A. Adams.¹
¹Emory Transplant Center, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA; ²Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Introduction. Xenotransplantation has the potential to alleviate the organ supply shortage, yet pig-to-primate renal xenotransplant has met limited success due to natural preformed anti-pig antibody.…
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Autologous BK-Specific T-Cell Lines in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
C. Lamarche,^1,2,3 O. Julie,^1,3 C. Carli,^1,3 J.-S. Delisle.^1,2,3
¹Centre de Recherche de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, QC, Canada; ²Canadian National Transplant Research Program (CNTRP), Edmonton, Canada; ³ThéCell Network, Quebec, Canada.
Background: More than 75% of the population has been exposed to BK polyomavirus and carries latent virus in the uroepithelium. Immunocompetent hosts are asymptomatic but…
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Calcineurin Inhibitors Promote Metastasis in Post-Transplant Colorectal Cancer Through Cancer Related- Exosomes Released from Cancer Cells in TGF Beta Independent Epitheilal to Mesenquimal Transition.
V. Tubita,¹ J. Segui-Barber,⁴ M.-J. Ramírez-Bajo,¹ D. Moya-Rull,¹ P. Piselli,³ D. Verdirosi,³ F. Oppenheimer,^1,2,5 D. Serraino,⁶ H. Del Portillo,^4,7 F. Diekmann,^1,2,5 J. Campistol,^1,2,5 I. Revuelta.^1,2,5
¹Experimental Laboratory of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain; ²Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain; ³Dipartamento di Epidemiologia e Ricerca Pre-Clinica, INMI “L. Spallanzani” IRCCC, Rome, Italy; ⁴ISGlobal, CRESIB, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; ⁵National Network for Kidney Research (REDinREN), Carlos III Royal Institute, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain; ⁶IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy; ⁷Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction: Cancer is one of the major causes of death in kidney transplantation. Despite more mortality in colon cancer (CRC), similar incidence than general population…
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Pancreatic Allograft Failure in Latino Recipients: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Conversion?
H. Fernandez, G. McKenna, N. Onaca, R. Ruiz.
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Introduction:Pancreas transplantation is the definitive treatment for diabetes mellitus (DM). The advantages of simultaneous kidney pancreas transplant in Latinos have been demonstrated previously, but there…
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An Analysis of Factors Associated with Pancreas Allograft Thrombosis.
J. Steggerda, K. Bornhurst, A. Annamalai, A. Peng, J. Mirocha, D. Dafoe.
Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
A successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant in recipients with end-stage diabetic nephropathy will provide normoglycemia and exert a salutary effect on neurovascular complications. Early, non-technical…