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  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Intraabdominal Infections (IAI) and Bloodstream Infections in Small Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplants (IMVTX).

    A. Spence,1 S. Fogleman,1 G. Raffaele,2 C. Matsumoto,2 P. Kumar,1 R. Biswas,1 T. Fishbein,2 J. Timpone.1

    1Division of Infectious Diseases, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; 2Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington

    BackgroundIMVTX is a treatment option for patients with intestinal failure. IMVTX is often complicated by infection in the post-transplant period with the abdomen and bloodstream…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Early Results of Immune Profile Emerging Before Detection of De Novo Humoral Alloimmunity in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

    J. Zimmerer, B. Ringwald, R. Pelletier, A. El-Hinnawi, A. Rajab, G. Bumgardner.

    OSUMC, Columbus

    The purpose of this IRB-approved study is to determine if there is a potential role for CD8+ T cell-mediated suppression of donor specific alloantibody (DSA)…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Transplant Center Variability in Disparities for African-American Kidney Transplant Recipients.

    D. Taber, M. Gebregziabher, L. Egede, P. Baliga.

    MUSC, Charleston, SC

    Disparities research has traditionally focused on patient-level variables to ascertain predominant risk factors driving differences in outcomes for African-American (AA) kidney transplant (KTX) recipients. The…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A Combination of Anti-CD40L-Ab, Rapamycin, and Donor Apoptotic Cells Prolongs Allogeneic Pancreatic Islet Survival in Sensitized Mice by Regulating Memory Responses.

    A. Dangi,1 H.-K. Kang,1 X. Zhang,2,3 X. Luo.1,2,3

    1Nephrology and Hypertension, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 3Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    Accelerated rejection of allografts has been a clinical challenge in solid organ transplantation particularly in sensitized recipients with donor-specific antibodies (DSA) and memory cell repertoires.…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of a B-Cell Targeting Agent on Antibody Mediated Rejection and Graft' Survival in Liver Transplantation with Preformed DSAs.

    A. Del Bello,1 V. Dubois,2 J. Dumortier,3 N. Congy-Jolivet,4 N. Kamar.1

    1Nephrology and Organ Transplant Department, CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France; 2Department of Immunology, CHU Lyon, Lyon, France; 3Gastroenterology and Liver Transplant Department, CHU Lyon, Lyon, France; 4Department of Immunology, CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Introduction The negative impact of preformed anti-HLA donor specific antibodies (DSAs) in liver transplantation is clearly established. However, the potential interest of a B-cell depleting…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Myeloid HO-1 Orchestrates Liver Graft Function via SIRT1/p53 Signaling: From Mouse-to-Human.

    K. Nakamura,1 M. Zhang,2 B. Ke,1 S. Kageyama,1 N. Datta,1 A. Zarrinpar,1 R. Busuttil,1 J. Araujo,2 J. Kupiec-Weglinski.1

    1Surgery, Liver Transplant, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Department of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 3Department of Pathology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    Background/Aim: Although the efficacy of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) to combat liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in animal models is well-established, cell-specific HO-1 function and mechanisms of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Efficacy and Safety of Everolimus with Reduced-Exposure Tacrolimus and Corticosteroid Withdrawal in De Novo Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients: 12-Month Results from the CRADLE Study.

    R. Ettenger,1 B. Tönshoff,1 H. Tedesco,1 L. Dello Strologo,1 S. Marks,1 L. Pape,1 E. Martzloff,2 B. Rauer,2 J. Ng,3 P. Lopez.2

    1A2314 Study Group, Los Angeles; 2Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland; 3Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation, East Hanover

    PURPOSE: We present 12-month (M) results from the CRADLE study (NCT01544491) that assessed efficacy and safety of everolimus (EVR) with reduced-exposure tacrolimus (rTAC) and early…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Elevated Circulating AT1R Levels Indicate Heightened Risk for Antibody Mediated Rejection and Graft Failure.

    P. Kimball, G. Gupta, F. McDougan.

    Transplant Surgery, VCUHealth Systems, Richmond, VA

    Background.Antibody(Ab) against the angiotensin II receptor(AT1R) can cause antibody mediated rejection(AMR) and graft failure after transplantation. We evaluated whether circulating AT1R is a potential marker…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Microarray Analysis of Rejection in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Biopsies: Similarities and Disparities with Conventionally Stabilized Biopsies.

    K. Famulski, J. Revee, P. Halloran.

    Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Despite potential for performing molecular diagnostics on formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) biopsies, there has been no systematic comparison of microarray gene expression data obtained from…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    iNKT Cell Activation Plus Veto Cell Transfer Yields Complete Chimerism in a Murine Sub-Lethal Bone Marrow Transplant Model.

    R. Ishii,1 T. Hirai,1 Y. Ishii,2 M. Okumi,1 K. Tanabe.1

    1Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; 2Cluster for Industry Partnerships (CIP), RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan

    Transplant tolerance induction makes it possible to preserve functional grafts for a lifetime without immunosuppressants. We have previously established a novel method for mixed chimera…
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