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  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Children With Biliary Atresia in the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease Era: The Role of Age and Insurance Status.

    J. Chu,1,2 R. Annunziato,3 R. Aviles,3 R. Arnon.1,2

    1Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY; 2Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY, NY; 3Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.

    Lower socioeconomic status has been linked to inferior health outcomes. We have previously shown that children with biliary atresia (BA) who have public insurance (PU)…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio as a Predictor of Polyomavirus BK Nephropathy in Kidney Transplant Patients.

    K. Masutani,1 A. Tsuchimoto,1 Y. Matsukuma,1 K. Kaku,2 K. Kurihara,2 Y. Okabe,2 K. Tsuruya,1 M. Nakamura,2 T. Kitazono.1

    1Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; 2Department of Surgery and Oncology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

    Background: Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an index for systemic inflammatory response, and has been reported to be a prognostic marker in the patients with malignancies…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Comparison of Efficacy of Different Regimens for Treating Recurrent IgA Nephropathy After Kidney Transplantation.

    G. Chen, C. Wang, L. Chen, J. Qiu, C. Wang, J. Fei, S. Deng, J. Li, G. Huang, Q. Fu.

    Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

    Background Recurrent IgA nephropathy is a common complication after kidney transplantation. How to treat recipients with recurrent IgA nephropathy is still controversial. There are two…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Renal Allograft Outcome After Parathyroidectomy.

    M. Patecki, I. Scheffner, H. Haller, W. Gwinner.

    Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

    Parathyroidectomy (PTx) after kidney transplantation (Tx) has been reported to have adverse effects on the allograft. In this study, we analyzed the course of patients…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Diabetes Mellitus and Kidney Transplant Outcomes.

    A. Mehrnia,1 A. Wang,1 W. Chaiwatcharayut,2 E. Huang,1 S. Bunnapradist.1

    1Nephrology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; 2Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein University, Bronx, NY.

    Background:This study investigates the impact of pre-existing (PDM) and new onset diabetes (NODAT) on the graft and patient survival after kidney transplant.Methods:The UNOS database was…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Is SVR Associated with Improved Hepatic Function in Hepatitis C Gen 1 Pts with Cirrhosis 1 Year After Completing Treatment with Sofosbuvir + Simeprevir +/- Ribavirin?

    A. Modi,1 J. Hermann,1 H. Nazario,2 S. Gonzalez,1 J. Gripshover,3 M. Gautam,1 J. Weinstein,2 D. Potosky,3 M. Barnes,2 A. Habib,2 P. Mantry,2 J. Trotter.1

    1Liver Consultants of Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; 2Liver Institute Methodist, Dallas, TX; 3University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

    Background: Combination antiviral therapy involving Sofosbuvir (SOF) & Simeprevir (SIM) +/- Ribavirin (RBV) is a relatively safe & effective Tx option in pts with gen…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    The Distance Between Us: The Landscape of Recipient-Specific Loss-of-Function in Solid Organ Transplantation and Association with Rejection-Free Graft Survival.

    B. Cole,1,2,5 J. van Setten,3,5 B. Keating.1,4,5

    1Department of Surgery, The Penn Transplant Institute, Philadelphia, PA; 2Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Philadelphia, PA; 3Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 4Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; 5The Omics Working Group, iGeneTRAiN Consortium, Philadelphia, PA.

    Purpose: This study aims to comprehensively identify genes that are inactivated in both copies in transplant recipients but not in their respective donors, uncovering a…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Inclusion of Human Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor or Thrombomodulin Transgenes Attenuates Critical Consumptive Thrombocytopenia in Cardiac Xenotransplantation.

    J. Chan,1 A. Singh,1 P. Corcoran,1 M. Thomas III,2 B. Lewis,2 D. Ayares,3 K. Horvath,1 M. Mohiuddin.1

    1Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; 2Division of Veterinary Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; 3Revivicor Inc., Blacksburg, VA.

    ObjectiveA major obstacle in the success of cardiac xenotransplantation has been the development of significant consumptive thrombocytopenia, frequently limiting recipient survival. Advances in genetic engineering…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Conditional Long Term Intestine Patient and Graft Survival Is Improving Under rATG Immunosuppression in Pediatric Intestine Transplantation.

    N. Celik,1 F. Vyas,1 G. Bond,1 K. Soltys,1 J. Rudolph,2 R. Sindhi,1 G. Mazariegos.1

    1Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Intestinal Care and Rehabilitation Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Aim: We reviewed conditional graft survival and short and long term improvements in children receiving rATG (rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin) immunosuppression for intestine transplantation at a…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Hematopoietic Cell Transplant and Solid Organ Transplantation: A First Report of the U.S. Experience.

    M. Gupta, M. Levine, P. Abt.

    Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    The prevalence of patients who receive both a hematopoetic cell(HCT) and solid organ transplantation(SOT) is rising. There have been no large scale studies of HCT…
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