Am J Transplant, Volume 17, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 181 of 181 - ATC Abstracts

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Vital Role of the CoREST Complex as a Master Regulator of Foxp3+ T-Regulatory Cell Gene Expression and Suppressive Function.
L. Wang,¹ A. Samanta,¹ M. Levine,¹ U. Beier,¹ R. Han,¹ J. Kalin,² E. Holson,³ P. Cole,² W. Hancock.¹
¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
While the Foxp3 promoter and its three associated conserved non-coding sequence (CNS)/enhancer regions have received much attention, literally nothing is known of the contribution of…
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Inferior Graft and Patient Survival After Living Donor Renal Transplantation of Negatively Selected Right Kidneys.
S. Yamanaga,^1,2,3 A. Posselt,¹ C. Freise,¹ C. Niemann,¹ A. Rosario,¹ D. Fernandez,¹ T. Kobayashi,³ A. Ahearn,⁴ M. Tavakol,¹ S.-M. Kang.¹
¹Department of Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ²Department of General Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan; ³Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan; ⁴Department of Transplant Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Purpose: In living donor renal transplantation, the left kidney is usually chosen for anatomical reasons. The right kidney is sometimes chosen if it is believed…
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Reassessing Thymoglobulin Induction in Kidney Transplantation (RETHINK): An Analysis of the North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies (NAPRTCS) Registry.
I. Ashoor,¹ K. Martz,² R. Beyl,³ V. Dharnidharka.⁴
¹Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA; ²EMMES Corporation, Rockville, MD; ³Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA; ⁴Washington University, St. Louis, MO
There is no consensus on Thymoglobulin (TMG) dose used for induction immunosuppression (IS) in pediatric kidney transplants (KTx). We aimed to identify: 1) TMG induction…
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Elevated Donor HbA1C Confers Impaired Overall Survival Following Renal Allotransplantation in Recipients of Allografts from Donors with Diabetes Mellitus: A National Analysis.
M. Mulvihill, B. Yerokun, R. Davis, A. Barbas, M. Hartwig.
Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Introduction: Donor diabetes mellitus (DM) is a risk factor for impaired outcomes following renal transplant. Donor DM is factored into the Kidney Donor Risk Index…
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Lymph Node Stromal Laminins Differentially Regulate T Cell Activation.
T. Simon, J. Bromberg.
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Background:Our recent work demonstrated that laminins α4β1γ1 and α5β1γ1, components of the lymph node (LN) stroma, are differentially regulated. Tolerance is associated with relatively higher…
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Five Year Experience with Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Renal Transplant Candidates.
A. Jung, Y. Kim, V. Dhar, D. Hanseman, J. Tadros, S. Dehart-Kilgore, R. Alloway, D. Schauer, S. Shah, A. Govil, E. Woodle, T. Diwan.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
INTRODUCTION: Obesity in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients may not be adequately addressed by medical management, and represents a barrier to renal transplantation. We…