Am J Transplant, Volume 16, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 59 of 180 - ATC Abstracts

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Does Donor and Recipient Age Disparity Make a Difference with Expanded Criteria Donors?
M. Khan,¹ K. Jones,¹ H. El-Hennawy,¹ A. Farney,¹ J. Rogers,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² M. Gautreaux,³ S. Iskandar,³ W. Doares,⁴ S. Kaczmorski,⁴ R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ³Pathology, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁴Pharmacy, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
The critical shortage of donor organs challenges the transplant community to optimize the use of organs from all consented deceased donors (DD). The purpose of…
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Metabolic Dysregulation and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Are Key Features of Injury Profiles of Donor Kidneys After Brain Death.
M. Lo Faro,¹ M. Akhtar,¹ H. Huang,¹ M. Kaisar,¹ R. Robolledo,² K. Morten,¹ L. Heather,¹ A. Dona,³ H. Leuvenink,² S. Fuggle,¹ B. Kessler,¹ C. Pugh,¹ R. Ploeg.¹
¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ³University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Donation after brain death (DBD) organ donors remain an important source for kidney transplantation. However, brain death affects donor organs rendering them susceptible to ischemia…
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NecroX-7 Attenuates Ischemia-Reperfusion Renal Injury.
K. Lee,¹ Y. Ham,¹ J. Jeon,¹ Y. Chang,² S. Chung,¹ K. Na,¹ D. Choi.¹
¹Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea; ²Internal Medicine, Daejeon Saint Mary Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic University, Daejeon, Korea.
Introduction: Recently mitochondrial damage has been known to play a major role in various renal injury mechanisms including ischemia-reperfusion (IR) renal injury. Mitochondrial injury and…
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The Effects of Brain Death and Ischemia on Tolerance Induction Are Organ-Specific.
S. Michel,^1,2 M. Madariaga,¹ G. LaMuraglia II,¹ R. Colvin,³ E. Farkash,³ J. Allan,^1,4 D. Sachs,¹ K. Yamada,¹ J. Madsen.^1,5
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; ³Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ⁴Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ⁵Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Background. We have previously shown that 12 days of high-dose calcineurin inhibition induced tolerance in miniature swine transplanted with MHC mismatched lung or cotransplanted heart…
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Renal Efficiency: A New Metric for Evaluating Kidneys in Living Donors.
A. Diez, K. Rima, J. Von Visger, U. Nori, T. Pesavento, A. Rajab, M. Henry, R. Pelletier.
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Donor age, quality of the graft, and the size/weight of the donated kidney are factors that may affect subsequent transplant outcomes. Morphological renal measurements may…
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Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: How Do Recipients Benefit Psychologically?
H. Maple,¹ J. Chilcot,² J. Weinman,² N. Mamode.¹
¹Department of Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; ²Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Living donor kidney transplantation remains the gold standard treatment for end-stage renal failure. There is an assumption amongst the transplant community that the physical…
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Hypothermic Machine Perfusion Ameliorates Vasospasm and Edema of Podocytes and Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells Through Upregulating Expression of Krüppel-Like Factors 2.
Z. Zhong,¹ D. Ko,² Y. Wang,¹ Q. Ye.¹
¹Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Institute of Hepatobiliary Diseases of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Urology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Protective mechanisms of hypothermic machine perfusion (MP) remain largely unknown. Vascular branches of the renal arteries of 6 kidneys in 320 donors were unexpectedly injured…
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Optimizing CPRAs for Sensitized Kidney Waitlist Candidates: The Devil Is in the KAS Details.
J. Houp,¹ R. Vega,¹ B. Lonze,² N. Desai,² R. Montgomery,² A. Jackson.¹
¹Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
The new kidney allocation system (KAS) has increased transplant rates for highly sensitized candidates. We hypothesized that increasing unacceptable antigens to transition candidates from 80-98%…
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The Correlation of Hepatic and Systemic Hemodynamics During Liver Transplantation: Quantification of Hepatic Resistance as an Actual Value.
A.-C. Feng, T.-W. Chen, H.-L. Fan, J.-C. Yu, C.-B. Hsieh.
Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
PurposeThe correlation between portal vein pressure (PVP) and flow (PVF) has not been established, and there is still lack of consensus about the optimal hemodynamics…
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Outcomes Following Inguinal Hernia Repair in Liver Transplant Recipients.
N. Dagher, S. DiBrito, I. Olorundare, C. Landazabal, D. Segev.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Liver transplant (LT) recipients are assumed to have poor outcomes following general surgical procedures, which may be a reason why most are directed to transplant…