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

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Donor Factors Show Low Impact on Patient and Kidney Allograft Outcomes: A Paired Analysis of Left/Right Deceased Donor Kidney Pairs.
T. Schachtner,^1,2,3 M. Stein,² P. Reinke.^1,2
¹Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ²Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ³Charite and Max-Delbrück Center, Berlin Institute of Health BIH, Berlin, Germany
The impact of donor factors on kidney allograft outcomes and infectious complications has been suggested in many previous studies. However, analyses of left/right donor kidney…
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Plasma Extracellular Vesicles MicroRNA Signatures Associate with Graft Function Recovery Post-Acute Renal Allograft Injury.
V. Bontha, A. Fernandez-Pineros, D. Bagchi, D. Maluf, E. Rhone, V. Mas.
Surgery, UVA, Charlottesville
Background: Early host-allograft cell-to-cell communications have been reported to occur via extracellular vesicles (EVs)/protein-miRNA complexes that might determine early allograft outcomes like delayed graft function…
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Blockade of Tim-3 and PD-1 Reverses Dysfunctions of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes in HBV Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
A. Hu, F. Liu, X. Zhu, X. He.
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
The immunosuppression of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) is associated with rapid progress of hepatitis B virus related hepatocellular carcinoma (HBV-HCC). The inhibition molecules of T…
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Neutering Worsens Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Both Male and Female Mice.
D. Murken,¹ D. Aufhauser Jr,¹ S. Concors,¹ Z. Wang,¹ G. Ge,¹ W. Hancock,² M. Levine.¹
¹Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction: Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) causes significant morbidity in liver transplantation and other surgical scenarios. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of IRI is required…
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Liver Regeneration in Porcine Hepatectomy Model.
H. Chen, D. Joo, M. Shaheen, J. Yang, S. Nyberg.
Department of Transplantation Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background: Acute Liver Failure (ALF) is a serious condition. A substantial number of donor livers (10%) are used to save ALF patients. Supportive therapies such…
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Donor Derived and BK Virus Positive Urologic Cancers After Renal Transplantation.
V. Hellström,¹ G. Tufveson,¹ A. Wallgren,² A. Loskog,² E. Larsson,² T. Töttermann,² M. Bengtsson,² A. Laurell,² C. Lundberg,¹ B. Holmström,¹ G. Enblad,² T. Lorant.¹
¹Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ²Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Background. Donor-derived tumours in organ recipients develop from donor tissue with no known pre-existing malignancy in the donor. In addition, polyoma BK virus (BKV) might…