2016 American Transplant Congress
The Live Donor Champion Program: A Novel Approach to Identying Live Kideny Donors.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Background: The Live Donor Champion (LDC) program is a clinical program offered to kidney waitlist candidates at our high volume transplant center. The six-month program…2016 American Transplant Congress
Rapid Detection of Urinary CXCL9 as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Tool for Managing Acute Cellular Rejection (ACR) in Kidney Transplantation.
Urinary (u) CXCL9 protein expression can noninvasively diagnose ACR and serial measurements during CNI withdrawal indicate that elevations in uCXCL9 detect subclinical rejection. How elevated…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Kidney Paired Donation Standard Acquisition Charge Pilot Program.
1UT, Toledo; 2APKD, Perrysburg; 3Arbor Res, Ann Arbor.
Background/Purpose: A national non-profit Kidney Paired Dontion (KPD) organization undertook a demonstration project to redesign payment for KPD transplants with a payment model similar to…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Donor-Recipient Relationship on the Immunologic Outcome in Living Kidney Transplantation.
Nephrology, Charite Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
Background. Presensitization and degree of HLA-matching influences immunologic outcome and kidney graft survival. Thus the donor-recipient relationship may influence incidence of immunologic events and outcome…2016 American Transplant Congress
Age and Education Level Are Predictors of Patient Preferences for Educational Formats in ESRD Patients Undergoing Transplant Education.
Background: Health literacy impacts hospitalizations and mortality. ESRD patients have reduced health literacy due to a high proportion of lower educational background and socioeconomic resources.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Limited Efficacy of Bortezomib on Desensitization via Rapid Humoral Compensation in a Sensitized Rhesus Model.
1Surgery, Duke University, Durham; 2Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta.
Sensitized patients comprise a significant proportion (30%) of candidates on the waiting list for transplantation. With recent evidence that the presence of donor-specific antibodies (DSA)…2016 American Transplant Congress
Immunologic Basis for Immunocloaking.
1BREONICS Inc., Watervliet, NY; 2Plastic Surgery, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
A novel organ-specific immunomodifying therapy referred to as immunocloaking (IC) provides protection from early allograft rejection without immunosuppressive drugs. The IC binds to the surfaces…2016 American Transplant Congress
CoCl2 Induced ER Stress Protein Mediated Cytotoxicity in FK506 Treated Hepatoma HepG2 Cells.
Background; The effects of FK506 on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) mediated stress pathway accelerates CoCl2 - induced cytotoxicity in human hepatoma HepG2 cell line were…2016 American Transplant Congress
Widespread Weight Gain After Pancreas Transplantation May Worsen Metabolic Graft Function.
Department of Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Introduction: Outcome after pancreas transplantation (tx) has improved over time and an increasing number of recipients remain insulin independent and enjoy a better quality of…2016 American Transplant Congress
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) in Patients with Pancreas Transplant Alone (PTA).
GVHD is rare after kidney-pancreas transplant with 18 case reports to date and never been described in the setting of PTA.We share our experience.Patient A:…
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