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

2017 American Transplant Congress
MicroRNAs and Long Non-Coding RNAs as Potential Novel Biomarkers in Transplanted Patients with Candida Infection.
A. Yang,¹ C. Zhou,² D. Li,³ W. Ju,¹ Z. Guo,¹ L. Wu,¹ A. Hu,¹ Y. Ma,¹ D. Wang,¹ X. Zhu,¹ X. He.¹
¹Organ Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat -sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; ²Gastroenterology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ³Ophthalmology, Schepens Research Institute, Boston, MA
There is an urgent need to develop sensitive and specific biomarkers for the early diagnosis of candida infection in transplanted patients. miRNAs and lncRNAs are…
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TIMP-3 Plays a Key Regulatory Role in the Cleavage of E-Cadherin and Has an Essential Protective Function in Hepatic IRI.
T. Fujii, S. Duarte, R. Busuttil, A. Coito.
Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) remains a challenging problem in clinical orthotopic liver transplantation. Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-3 (TIMP-3), an extracellular matrix-associated protein, has been linked…
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Angioplasty versus Stent in the Treatment of Transplant Renal Artery Stenosis.
L.-X. Chen,¹ G. Fananapazir,² H. Bang,³ M. Gandhi,¹ M. Alnimri,¹ B. Gallay,¹ A. De Mattos.¹
¹Transplant Nephrology, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; ²Radiology, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; ³Biostatistics, UC Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA
Objective: To compare restenosis rates and treatment efficacy between percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stent placement in the treatment of transplant renal artery stenosis.Methods: We conducted…
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Long-Term Immunosuppression Adherence After Kidney Transplant and Relationship to Allograft Histology.
E. Lorenz, B. Smith, F. Cosio, N. Shah, P. Groehler, J. Verdick, W. Park, M. Stegall.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Background: Loss of Medicare coverage for immunosuppression 3 years after kidney transplant may be associated with increased nonadherence. The goal of this study was to…
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The Value of Protocol Biopsy at Third Month After Kidney Transplant: A Single-Center Cohort Analysis.
R. Rosado-Canto, C. Barrientos-Aguilar, I. Parra-Avila, L. Marino, M. Arvizu-Hernandez, N. Uribe-Uribe, L. Morales-Buenrostro.
Departament of Nephrology and Transplant, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico
Introduction: In spite of publications reporting higher detection of subclinical rejection (SR) with protocol biopsies in kidney transplant (KT) recipients there is no recommendation with…
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Induction in the Elderly: A Comparison of Basiliximab versus Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin After Kidney Transplantation.
J. Lee, E. Liu, M. Aull, S. Kapur.
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Background: Although it is well established that kidney transplant (KT) in the elderly is beneficial and safe, there is limited literature on the appropriate choice…