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

2017 American Transplant Congress
Gut Microbial Metabolite Improves Function and Prolongs Kidney Allograft Survival in Mice.
H. Wu,^1,2 T. Kwan,¹ Y. Loh,¹ X. Chen,¹ L. Macia,^2,3 S. Alexander,^2,4 S. Chadban.^1,2
¹Kidney Node Laboratory, The Charles Perkins Centre and Renal Medicine, Sydney Medical School and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ²University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ³Nutritional Immunometabolism Lab, The Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia; ⁴Nephrology Department, The Children Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
To determine the impact of dietary administration of the gut microbial metabolite sodium acetate (SA) on kidney rejection and survival in a fully MHC-mismatched murine…
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Effect of Preformed Donor-Specific Antibodies in Intestine/Multivisceral Transplantation.
M. Safwan,¹ M. Rizzari,¹ K. Collins,¹ A. Yoshida,¹ S. Skorupski,² O. Fagoaga,² M. Abouljoud,¹ S. Nagai.¹
¹Divison of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI; ²Transplant Immunology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Aim: To analyze the effect of preformed donor-specific antibodies (DSA) in intestine/multivisceral transplantation patients.Methods: Retrospective review of preformed and de novo DSAs of all intestine/multivisceral…
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CD28 Directed Immunotherapy Is More Potent Than Belatacept in a Nonhuman Primate Xenotransplant Model.
S. Kim,¹ L. Higginbotham,¹ D. Mathews,¹ C. Breeden,¹ A. Stephenson,¹ C. Larsen,¹ M. Ford,¹ J. Tector,² A. Adams.¹
¹Emory Transplant Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ²University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Introduction. Xenotransplantation may alleviate the organ shortage, yet experimental renal xenotransplantation has met limited success. T cell-mediated damage remains a critical problem. Our group has…
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How to Improve Pre-Kidney Transplant Education for Hispanics: Preferences and Perceptions of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Hispanic Transplant Program.
H. Gomez, E. Malagon-Blackwell, J. Caicedo.
The Comprehensive Transplantation Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Context: Pre-Transplant educational sessions improve access to transplantation. Currently, however, there is lack of culturally competent approaches to improve living kidney donation for Hispanics Americans.…
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Long-Term Drug-Free Survival of Tiny Cynomolgus Islet Allografts.
M. Koulmanda, V. Chipashivili, M. Duggan, T. Strom.
Surgery and Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Following upon highly beneficial effects observed with short-term alpha 1-antitrypsin (AAT) treatment in the marginally sized autologous cynomolgus islet transplant model, we are testing the…
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The Combined Effects of Induction Regimens and Antiviral Prophylaxis on the Risk of CMV Infection in Different Serostatus Subgroups After Liver Transplantation.
C. Low,² S. Hosseini-Moghaddam,^1,2 C. Rotstein,² E. Renner,² A. Humar,² D. Kumar,² S. Husain.²
¹Medicine, Western University, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada; ²University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Introduction: Simultaneous effects of anti-CMV prophylaxis and induction regimens on cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection after liver transplantation (LTRs) have not been studied. We determined the magnitude…