2017 American Transplant Congress
Racial Differences in Liver Cirrhosis-Related Mortality Among Patients with Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Sodium Score (MELDNa) ≤ 15.
Introduction:Subpopulations of patients with liver cirrhosis exist for whom the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Sodium Score (MELDNa) is suboptimal for mortality prediction and who…2017 American Transplant Congress
Hypothermic Pulsatile Machine Perfusion for Human Pancreas Preservation.
Institute of Transplantation Urology, and Nephrology, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France
Pancreas transplantation is one of the best treatment for selected insulin-dependent diabetic patients. The pancreas is high vulnerable to ischemic damage and re-perfusion injury which…2017 American Transplant Congress
Does Pancreas Transplantation for the Patients with Diabetes Showed Significant Survival Benefit?
Background : Pancreas transplantation was considered a therapeutic option for patients with complicated DM. However, in the past decade, the annual number of PT performed…2017 American Transplant Congress
Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation Improves Quality of Life Allowing for the Resolution of the Intractable Pain with Good Glucose Control in Properly Selected Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis.
1Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Background: There is a group of Total pancreatectomy (TP) is offered as a last option to patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) who despite optimal treatment…2017 American Transplant Congress
Is There a Role for Electronic Health Service in of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Immunosuppression?
Background: Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of immunosuppression is critical to avoid rejection or toxic side effects by under- or over-immunosuppression after heart transplantation (HTx). Hence,…2017 American Transplant Congress
Combination Therapy of iNKT Cell Ligand and CD40-CD154 Signal Blockade Establishes Islet Allograft Tolerance in Non-Myeloablative Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients.
Background: Allogeneic islet transplantation is an effective therapeutic option for type 1 diabetes. Toxicity associated with chronic use of immunosuppressants still remains an obstacle for…2017 American Transplant Congress
Soluble Fibrinogen-Like Protein 2 Regulates Differentiation and Enhances Immunosuppressive Function of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Allograft Immunity.
Urology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Soluble fibrinogen-like protein 2 (sFGL2) is a novel immunoregulatory molecule, secreted mainly by regulatory T cells. CD11b+ Gr1+ myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are an important…2017 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Method for iNKT Cell-Mediated Ex Vivo Treg Expansion Applied to Induce Human Transplant Tolerance.
Background: Although regulatory T cells (Tregs) are beneficial for transplant-tolerance induction, decisive methods for their preferential expansion have not yet been established. In our series…2017 American Transplant Congress
Cell-Subset Diversity in Adipose Derived Regenerative Cells Used in Renal Ischemic Reperfusion Injury Treatment.
Studies in our novel hybrid model of transplantion/ischemic reperfusion injury (IRI) in rat has demonstrated significant improvement in kidney function post injection of adipose-derived regenerative…2017 American Transplant Congress
Immune Tolerance Monitoring in Renal Allograft Tolerance Induced by Transient Mixed Chimerism in Nonhuman Primates.
Center for Transplant Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background: We have previously reported donor specific expansion of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in nonhuman primate (NHP) recipients which achieved renal allograft tolerance after induction…
