2016 American Transplant Congress
Never Events and Hospital Acquired Conditions After Kidney Transplant.
Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
Introduction: Never Events (NE) and Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) after surgery have been designated as quality metrics in health care by the centers for Medicare…2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Transplant Recipients Treated with Cidofovir for Resistant or Refractory Cytomegalovirus Infection.
Transplant & Oncology Infectious Disease, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Background: Treatment of GCV-resistant(GCV-R)or refractory CMV infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT)and solid organ transplant (SOT)recipients remains controversial.Foscarnet (FOS)and cidofovir(CDV),nucleotide analogues with activity against…2016 American Transplant Congress
Donor Transmited Rabies Outbreak Involving Four Transplant Recepients in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Background and Aims: There have been 10 outbreaks of rabies following solid organ or corneal transplantation. In December 2014, 4 organ recipients died in 2…2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant with Low Level DSA and Low Positive B-Flow Crossmatch: An Underappreciated Option for Highly Sensitized Transplant Candidates.
Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Introduction: Avoiding DSA is difficult in sensitized patients. A kidney transplant (KTx) with low level DSA with or without a low level B flow cytometric…2016 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation with Strong Preformed Donor-Specific Antibodies: Impact of C1q-Binding Ability.
1Nephrology, CHP, Porto, Portugal; 2CSTP, Porto, Portugal.
HLA-incompatible kidney transplantation is associated with worse outcomes given the presence of donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (DSA). Our aim was to investigate the association between preformed…2016 American Transplant Congress
ESM1 Gene Promotes Hepatocyte Proliferation Through NF-κB Signal Pathway.
BACKGROUND: Effective and timely liver regeneration is pivotal in the prevention of fetal small-for-size syndrome after living donor liver transplantation or split liver transplantation. Our…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Non-Hematopoietic Erythropoietin Analogue, ARA 290, Prolonged Allogeneic Pancreatic Islet Graft Survival in a Mouse Model.
Purpose. Erythropoietin exerts anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic and cyto-protective effects in addition to its hematopoietic property. We have recently shown that ARA 290, a non-hematopoietic erythropoietin analogue,…2016 American Transplant Congress
Natural Killer Cells Display Functional and Receptor Diversity in Response to Alloantigen.
Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in the first-line defense against tumor and virus-infected cells. Although “missing-self” suggests NK cells would target foreign…2016 American Transplant Congress
Immune Tolerance Monitoring in Renal Allograft Tolerance Induced by Transient Mixed Chimerism in Nonhuman Primates and Humans.
Center for Transplantation Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Background: Successful induction of allograft tolerance in MHC-mismatched kidney transplantation has been achieved after induction of transient chimerism in both nonhuman primates (NHP) and humans.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Descriptive Epidemiology and Trends of Community Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Utilization Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients at a High Volume Transplant Center 2008 to 2014.
Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
INTRODUCTION: Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients may benefit from community-based parenteral anti-infective therapy (CoPAT). Limited data are available. CoPAT may help reduce LOS. As a…
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