2017 American Transplant Congress
The Outcome of Kidney Grafts from Living Donors with Pyelo-Ureteric Junction Dysfunction.
Introduction: There is a wide gap between number of patients seeking renal transplants and potential kidney donors. Living kidney donation seems a reasonable source to…2017 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Graft Loss in an Urban Predominantly Minority Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Monterfiore/Einstein Center for Transplantation, Bronx, NY
BackgroundWe aimed to determine the demographic and clinical characteristics associated with graft loss in a cohort of kidney transplant recipients with a high African-American and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Non-Adherence in a Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Background: The understanding of the main causes of allograft losts and related factors is a critical in the sucess of kidney transplantation programs.Objective: The aim…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of the New Kidney Allocation System on Living Donor Kidney Transplantation(LDTX) Among Patients in the Lowest Quintile of Expected Post-Transplant Survival (EPTS).
Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Background: Changes in deceased donor allocation policy may impact LDTX.The prioritization of patients in the top 20% of EPTS to receive deceased donor kidneys in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Barriers and Experiences When Patients Decide on a Kidney Transplant Center.
Choosing a transplant center is one decision in a long pre-transplant process facing many patients. Qualitative studies have previously been used to better understand the…2017 American Transplant Congress
Characterization of a B Lymphocyte Signature Predictive of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction.
The occurrence of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) is the main complication after lung transplantation (LT) and remains the most common cause of graft failure…2017 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant CMV-Specific T-Cell Immunity Is an Additional Independent Variable Predicting CMV Infection After Kidney Transplantation.
Background: Current pre-transplant risk stratification for Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is based on donor/recipient (D/R) IgG-serostatus and clinical variables such as the use of T-cell depletion…2017 American Transplant Congress
CMV-Infected Kidney Grafts Drive the Expansion of Blood-Born CMV-Specific T-Cells Restricted by Shared HLA Molecules Through Presentation on Donor's Cells.
Background. Cytomegalovirus specific immune response is crucial to control CMV infection in kidney transplant recipients (KTR), in whom recipient CMV can reactivated (R+) and donor…2017 American Transplant Congress
More Rapid Decline in Male VS Female Living Kidney Donations (LKD) Varies by Income.
Reasons for the decline in LKD remain uncertain. We hypothesized that there would be a more rapid decline in male vs female LKD and that…2017 American Transplant Congress
Personalizing Immunosuppression with Molecular Phenotyping in Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
Pediatric Abdominal Transplant, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh
Background: Optimizing immunosuppression requires selecting an agent which can inhibit the dominant anti-rejection mechanism in individual children with liver transplantation (LTx). Extended use of steroids,…
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