Am J Transplant, Volume 17, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 21 of 181 - ATC Abstracts

2017 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation and Center Volume: Bigger Is Not Necessarily Better.
T. Alhamad,¹ A. Malone,¹ D. Brennan,¹ R. Stratta,³ J. Wellen,¹ K. Lentine.²
¹Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis; ²Saint Louis University, St. Louis; ³Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem
Successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation requires surgical expertise and multidisciplinary medical management. The impact of transplant center volume on pancreas allograft survival after SPK is…
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Insulin Therapy in Pancreas Donors as a Predictor of Subsequent Transplant Outcome.
I. Shapey,¹ H. Khambalia,² A. Summers,² T. Augustine,² M. Rutter,¹ D. van Dellen.¹
¹Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; ²Department of Renal and Pancreas Transplantation, Central Manchester University Hospitals, Manchester, United Kingdom
Introduction: Brain stem death causes high levels of systemic catecholamines and inflammation affecting all organs. These changes, and the routine use of high-dose corticosteroids in…
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Serva NB1 versus Vitacyte Collagenase: Comparable Human Islet Isolation Outcomes Using DCD Donor Pancreas in China.
Y. Liu, P. Sun, J. Zou, G. Wang, T. Liu, L. Wang, S. Wang.
Transplant Center, Tianjin First Center Hospital, Tianjin, China
Objective This study was designed to retrospectively compare the effect of Serva NB1 collagenase between Vitacyte collagenase on islet isolation of DCD pancreas in China.…
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Predictors of Malignancies Across Solid Organ Transplantation.
M. Bhat,¹ K. Mara,² R. Dierkhising,² K. Watt.³
¹Multi Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ³Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Background & Aims:Solid organ transplant recipients are at much higher risk of cancer as compared to the general population. The aim of this study was…
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IL-33 Enhances the Ability of Dendritic Cells to Expand Human Regulatory T Cells.
Y. Zhao,¹ H. Zhang,¹ L. Mathews,¹ H. Turnquist,^1,2 A. Thomson.^1,2
¹Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Introduction:The importance of increasing the number of regulatory T cells (Treg) relative to T effectors for the promotion of long-term experimental allograft survival/tolerance is well-established.…
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CD4 and CD8 T Cells: Respectively Reprogrammed and Recapitulated in the Neonate to Induce Transplant Tolerance.
R. Bascom, K. Tao, L. West.
Alberta Transplant Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Purpose: Non-conditioned neonatal mice develop acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) when injected with adult allogeneic spleen and bone marrow cells (allo-SC/BMC). To prevent aGVHD and induce…
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The Impact of Tracheal Epithelial Cells Apoptosis on the Biological Behavior of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells (BMSCs) in OB.
X. Zhang,¹ T. Xia,² C. Wang,² K. Jiang,² J. Wang,² J. Nie.²
¹Department of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China; ²Department of Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Background: During the development of obliterative bronchiolitis (OB), extensive extracellular matrix is deposited in the lumen of the bronchioli, and the number of myofibroblasts increases.…
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Technically Successful Miniaturization of Blood Hemofilters for an Artificial Kidney via Bioengineering Techniques.
R. Forbes,¹ C. Kensinger,¹ S. Karp,¹ J. Groszek,¹ A. Buck,² D. Colvin,² S. Roy,³ W. Fissell.¹
¹Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville; ²Institute of Imagine Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco
Background: Creating flow channel pathways for an implantable artificial kidney with minimal risk of thrombosis is particularly difficult when miniaturizing into a multilayer bio-hybrid device.…
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Rejection of Human Kidney Allografts According to BANFF Classification Is Associated with a Chemokine-Enriched Protein Microenvironment in Biopsy Tssue.
C. Falk,¹ K. Daemen,¹ J. Keil,¹ F. Lehner,² H. Haller,³ J. Schmitz,⁴ J.-H. Bräsen,⁴ C. Blume.⁵
¹Institute of Transplant Immunology, IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ²Department of Abdominal, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ³Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ⁴Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ⁵Institute for Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
Background: Expression profiling efforts of biopsy tissue after kidney transplantation indicate that rejection can be defined by distinct signatures. Based on pathological evaluation (BANFF) as…
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PPAR-γ Agonist Attenuates Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in a Mouse Model by Regulating Kupffer Cell Polarization.
I. Linares, K. Farrokhi, J. Echeverri, M. Kaths, D. Kollman, M. Hamar, P. Urbanellis, S. Ganesh, O. Adeyi, P. Yip, N. Selzner, M. Selzner.
Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
PPAR-γ agonists have shown protective effect on ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in cerebral and renal tissue. The effects of PPAR-γ on hepatic IRI is unclear. We…