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  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Necroptotic Cellular Death Modulates TNFα Mediated Inflammation and Cardiac Allograft Rejection in Mice.

    R. Ang, P. Heeger, A. Ting.

    Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC, NY

    While graft injury following cold ischemia reperfusion (IR) can accelerate graft rejection, mechanisms are incompletely understood. Evidence indicates that posttransplant IR injury is associated with…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A Search for a Biomarker Which Predicts Belatacept-Resistant Rejection.

    G. de Graav,1 C. Baan,1 M. Clahsen-van Groningen,2 R. Kraaijeveld,1 M. Dieterich,1 W. Verschoor,1 D. Roelen,3 M. Cadogan,1 J. van de Wetering,1 J. van Rosmalen,4 W. Weimar,1 D. Hesselink.1

    1Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands; 2Pathology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands; 3Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands; 4Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

    Belatacept, an inhibitor of the CD28-CD80/86 costimulatory pathway, has been associated with a higher acute rejection risk than ciclosporin. We sought to identify a biomarker…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Assessment of Attitudes Toward Use of Hepatitis C Positive Liver Allografts in US Transplant Centers.

    S. Kilaru,1 E. Tapper,2 M. Curry.3

    1Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY; 2Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 3Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

    Background:Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have been shown to have high cure rates in hepatitis C (HCV)-positive liver transplantation (LT) recipients. The organ donor shortage has led…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Knowledge and Attitudes Associated with Willingness to Accept HIV+ Organs Among Persons Living with HIV.

    S. Anjum, S. Halpern, K. Kumar, A. Nyugen, S. Rasmussen, A. Massie, A. Tobian, D. Segev, J. Sugarman, C. Durand.

    Surgery, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore

    HIV-to-HIV organ transplants are a novel treatment for organ failure in HIV-positive (HIV+) individuals. However, attitudes of potential HIV+ recipients regarding HIV+ donors remain unknown.Methods:…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Ectopic Lymphoid Structures Are Present in Type I T-Cell Mediated Kidney Transplant Rejection.

    K. de Leur,1,2 M. Clahsen-van Groningen,3 G. de Graav,1 D. Hesselink,1 J. Samsom,4 C. Baan,1 K. Boer.1

    1Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 2Surgery, Division HPB and Transplant Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 3Pathology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 4Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    BackgroundIn renal transplantation, many allograft recipients develop donor-specific antibodies associated with an increased risk for graft rejection. Current immunosuppressive agents are principally aimed at T-cell-mediated…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Relationship Between Mixed Chimerism and Tolerance in HLA-Matched and -Mismatched Recipients of Kidney and Hematopoietic Cell Transplants.

    S. Busque, J. Scandling, J. Shizuru, R. Lowsky, A. Shori, J. Kent, E. Engleman, S. Strober.

    Stanford University, Stanford

    Twenty-eight fully HLA-matched and 18 HLA haplotype- matched recipients were given combined kidney and hematopoietic cell transplants using a completely post-transplant conditioning regimen consisting of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A Proof of Concept for Liver Graft Modification Using Warm Ex Vivo Perfusion – “It Is Not Just About Rescuing Marginal Grafts”.

    N. Goldaracena, J. Echeverri, N. Selzner, D. Grant, J. Feld, M. Selzner.

    Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Background: The active metabolism during normothermic ex vivo liver perfusion (NEVLP) offers a new opportunity to use the preservation time for graft modification and repair…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Mutations in Influenza A Virus and Clinical Implications in Transplant Recipients.

    V. Ferreira,1 A. Humar,1 E. Cordero,2 E. Blumberg,3 S. Husain,1 J. Kalpoe,4 M. Multicenter Influenza Group, D. Kumar.1

    1UHN, Toronto, Canada; 2REIPI, Seville, Spain; 3UPenn, Philadelphia; 4LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands

    Background: Organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients are predisposed to complications of influenza infection and as such may constitute an important source of…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Prescription Opioid Use Before and After Kidney Transplant: Implications for Post-Transplant Outcomes.

    K. Lentine,1 N. Lam,2 D. Segev,3 D. Axelrod,4 Z. Zhang,1 H. Xiao,1 G. Hess,5 B. Kasiske,6 R. Gadi,1 R. Devraj,7 D. Brennan,8 H. Randall,1 M. Schnitzler.1,6

    1St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO; 2Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 3Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; 4East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC; 5Symphony Health, Philadelphia, PA; 6Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN; 7Southern Illinois Univ, Edwardsville, IL; 8Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO

    We previously identified associations of opioid use before kidney transplant (KTx) with post-KTx complications.To confirm and extend these findings, we examined a novel database wherein…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Analysis of Differences in Living Donor and Recipient Pairs Estimated GFR at Six Months Over Time.

    D. Keith.

    Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL

    Previous studies of the United States Kidney Transplant Database revealed that the median estimated GFR (eGFR) has improved over the last decade for living donor…
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