2017 American Transplant Congress
More Than Renal Function: Use of Belatacept to Improve Drug Toxicities.
Background: Data with belatacept has demonstrated that patients on de novo belatacept have better renal function and improved patient and graft survival seven years post-transplant.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of CCR4highCD4+ Subpopulations in Renal Graft Blood After Steroid Withdrawal: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study in Parallel Groups. Preliminary Results.
Introduction:Steroids are a mainstay of immunosuppression after kidney transplant (KT). The infiltration into the graft of active T cells following KT depends on the expression…2017 American Transplant Congress
Lipid Abnormalities and Cardiovascular Events After Early Conversion to Everolimus in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Pretransplant Diabetes: 24-Month Analysis from Elevate Study.
1ELEVATE Study Group, Berlin, Germany; 2Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
PURPOSE: Pretransplant (preTx) diabetes is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular (CV) events, and posttransplant (post-Tx) hyperlipidemia further increases CV risk. To analyze the influence…2017 American Transplant Congress
Propensity-Matched Comparison of Diabetic Patients and Non-Diabetic Patients in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.
Background: Kidney transplantation (KT) reportedly provides a significant survival advantage over dialysis in diabetic patients. However, KT outcome in diabetic patients compared with that in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Outcomes of Adult Kidney Transplants from Small Single Pediatric Donors Are Equivalent to Standard Criteria Donors.
Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
PurposeWe analyzed long term outcomes of adult kidney transplant recipients from single pediatric donors at a large volume center.MethodsA retrospective review of 90 adult kidney…2017 American Transplant Congress
Successful Implementation of a Pneumococcal Vaccination Program for Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Vaccine preventable diseases remain a serious problem among transplanted patients. Many children remain under vaccinated after a kidney transplant because of a lack of physician…2017 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Preservation of Renal Function in Liver Transplant Recipients with Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction and Delayed Initiation of Calcineurin Inhibitors.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
Methods: A single-center retrospective analysis of medical records of 989 liver transplant recipients from 2001-2010 were reviewed and evaluated for patients who received thymo induction…2017 American Transplant Congress
Rapamycin Maintenance Therapy in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Associated with Trend Toward Decreasing Th2 Cytokine Levels Compared to Tacrolimus Therapy.
1Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO; 2University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Background: Maintenance immunosuppression after liver transplantation with tacrolimus (TAC) may have progressive fibrosis on serial allograft biopsies. mTOR inhibitors such as rapamycin (RAPA) may abrogate…2017 American Transplant Congress
Strategies to Economize Dialysis and Transplantation in Low Resource Settings.
Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
Background: Pakistan in an emerging economy where 50% of the population live below the poverty line on <$2 a day. The government spend 1.3% of…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…
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