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  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Development of Diabetic Glomerulosclerosis (DMGS) After Kidney Transplantation (KTX).

    F. Cosio, L. Cornell, M. Stegall.

    Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

    Introduction. Causes of death-censored KTX loss are multiple and often non-alloimmune mediated. Examination of KTX biopsies after 5 years revealed an increasing number of cases…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Cinacalcet Versus Pre-Transplant Parathyroidectomy in Renal Transplant Recipients: Single Centre Experience.

    G. Lucisano,1 R. Charif,1 K. Koutroutsos,1 D. Taube,1 F. Palazzo,2 M. Loucaidou.1

    1Renal and Transplant Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; 2Centre for Endocrinology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.

    Introduction:Hyperparathyroidism(HPT) often persists after renal transplantation(Tx). Cinacalcet(Cx) and parathyroidectomy(PTx) are possible treatments. It was reported that PTx may be followed by a reduction in Tx…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Preformed Anti-HLA Antibodies in the Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation.

    S. Santos,1 J. Malheiro,1 M. Costa,2 A. Campos,1 S. Pedroso,1 M. Almeida,1 L. Martins,1 L. Dias,1 C. Henriques,1 A. Cabrita.1

    1Nephrology, Hospital Santo António, CHP, Porto, Portugal; 2Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.

    Background:Anti-HLA antibodies are risk factors for acute and chronic rejection and allograft loss. Its detection represents a major advance and is widely used in organ…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Why Do African American Patients Display Disparities in Renal Graft Function Following Renal Transplantation?

    Y. Nyame, V. Gan, P. Aram, D. Greene, N. Yerram, C. Modlin, S. Flechner.

    Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

    Objective: The aim of this study was to assess disparities in post-operative mortality and graft failure among patients of African and European ancestry undergoing kidney…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Living Related Small Bowel Transplantation in Children – Patient and Graft Survival at 10 Years.

    S. Garcia Aroz,1 I. Tzvetanov,1 E. Hetterman,2 J. Hoonbae,1 M. Spaggiari,1 J. Oberholzer,1 G. Testa,3 E. John,1 E. Benedetti.1

    1Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago; 2Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago; 3Surgery, Baylor Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

    Objective: To describe a single-center experience of pediatric living related small bowel transplantation (LRSBtx) and to provide an overview of the outcomes of the children…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Increase of Serum MiR-142-3p Level in Acute Cardiac Rejection as a Reflection of Exosome-Mediated Genetic Exchange Between T Cells and Endothelial Cells.

    I. Dewi,1 Z. Hollander,2 B. McManus,2 O. Gidlöf,1 J. Öhman.1

    1Cardiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; 2PROOF Center of Excellence, Vancouver, Canada.

    IntroductionIn the recent years, microRNAs has emerged as the popular biomarker candidate in the field of solid organ transplantation due to their expression patterns reflect…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    B Lymphocyte-Induced Maturation Protein-1 Promotes Allograft Survival via Modulation of T Cell Development.

    A. Wang,1 C. Loh,1,3,4 S.-J. Chen,2 C.-H. Lin,1 H.-K. Sytwu,2 S.-H. Chuang,1 F.-C. Wei.1,4

    1VCA; PRS Dept., CGMH, Taoyuan, Taiwan; 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, NDMC, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 4College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

    *Equal contributionPurposeVascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is a promising new field in plastic surgery. Skin is known to be the most immunogenic component of a composite…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Human PDL1+ SLA-DR– Swine Vascular Endothelial Cells Suppress Pig-Human PBMC Xeno-MLR(Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction) by Inducing Human Regulatory IL-10+Tr1(Type 1 Regulatory T Cells) Subset for Suppression of Xenogeneic Reactions.

    Q. Shao, Q. Diag.

    The Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China.

    Type 1 regulatory T cells(Tr1) are active in transplantation tolerance. The Tr1 cells are inducible in our lab from human CD4 T cells (hCD4 T)…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Assessment of Transplant Health Literacy of Liver Transplant Candidates and Their Caregivers.

    Y. Bababekov,1 Z. Fong,1,2 J. Adler,1 H. Yeh,1 D. Chang,1,2 J. Pomposelli.3

    1Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Codman Center for Clinical Effectivness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3Transplantation, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA.

    Purpose: All transplant programs provide education sessions and instructional material to their patients to improve health literacy. However, their efficacy is unknown. We piloted a…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Survival Advantage in the Elderly with Kidney Transplantation.

    G. Spanos,1 N. Duncan,1 P. Brookes,1 D. Goodall,1 K. Koutroutsos,1 E. Evangelou,2 M. Loucaidou.1

    1Imperial College Renal Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; 2Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

    Background: Patients with established renal failure (ERF) are aging. Of patients starting dialysis at our centre a third and a half are over the age…
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