2017 American Transplant Congress
Provision of Highly Specialized Aftercare by the Transplant Center Strongly Improves Patient and Allograft Survival in Long-Term Follow-Up After Kidney Transplantation.
Despite rapid medical advancements in the field of transplantation, mean kidney allograft survival remained at a standstill. If and to what extent a highly specialized…2017 American Transplant Congress
Gut Microbiota-Urinary Tract Infection Axis in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Introduction. The gut microbiota has recently been identified as a risk factor for development of infectious complications like bacteremia; herein, we evaluated the relationship between…2017 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Lipid Profile and Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Kidney Transplant Recipients Converted from Calcineurin Inhibitor to Everolimus: 24-Month Subanalysis from Elevate Study.
1ELEVATE Study Group, Berlin, Germany; 2Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
PURPOSE: Posttransplant (post-Tx) lipid abnormalities may increase risk of cardiovascular (CV) events in kidney transplant recipients (KTxR). Previous analysis from ELEVATE (NCT01114529) study confirmed that…2017 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol in Living Liver Donors.
Background: Enhanced recovery after surgery protocol has proven its efficacy in many surgery fields in controlling pain and promoting early recovery . The implication of…2017 American Transplant Congress
Community Health, Center Proximity, and Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality.
1Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 2Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background: While regional organ availability is frequently discussed in allocation policy, the impact of community-level factors and access to a transplant center on waitlist mortality…2017 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant HLA-Specific B Cell Breadth of Reactivity in a Novel Multiplex Bead-Based Assay Predicts Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
1Northwestern University, Chicago; 2Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Introduction: Recipients with broad sensitization to HLA defined by a high percentage of Panel Reactive Antibodies (PRA) are at higher immunologic risk for poor graft…2017 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes with Steroid Avoidance Regimen After Kidney Transplantation without Induction Immunosuppression.
INTRODUCTION: Use of induction immunosuppression therapy at the time of kidney transplantation is variable in low immunological risk kidney transplant recipients. Though acceptable allograft outcomes…2017 American Transplant Congress
Absence of Independent and Additional Predictive Ability of Preimplantation Kidney Allograft Biopsies for Long-Term Outcome: Population Based Study.
Paris Translational Research Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France
BackgroundA significant number of kidneys are discarded worldwide due to the suboptimal use of large kidney resources. The mean cause is the result of the…2017 American Transplant Congress
FcγRIIB-Mediated Coinhibition Attenuates Donor-Reactive CD8+ T Cell Responses.
Emory Transplant Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Memory T cells can be a formidable barrier to long-term, rejection-free allograft survival, particularly in the setting of costimulation blockade. Ongoing work in the field…2017 American Transplant Congress
Retrospective Analysis of Multiple Hemodialysis Access Modalities.
1Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL; 2University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
The use of native arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) for hemodialysis (HD) is the gold standard, however, for many patients, this is not an option. We hypothesize…
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