Am J Transplant, Volume 17, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 32 of 181 - ATC Abstracts

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Outcomes After Hysterectomy in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease.
I. Olorundare, S. DiBrito, C. Haugen, J. Garonzik-Wang, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore
INTRODUCTION:Hysterectomy is one of the most common gynecologic surgeries performed on women, including women with ESRD awaiting kidney transplantation. Despite this, studies of hysterectomy among…
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National Trends in Utilization of Donation After Cardiac Death Donor Livers for Transplantation.
S. Kubal,¹ R. Mangus,¹ B. Ekser,¹ R. Amos,² J. Fridell.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ²Indiana Donor Network, Indianapolis, IN
Background: Optimizing utilization of donation after cardiac death (DCD) livers is imperative to address organ shortage. Understanding factors that contribute to DCD liver discards is…
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Exceptions Points and Size Drive Gender Disparities in Liver Transplantation.
L. Nephew,¹ D. Goldberg,^1,2 J. Lewis,^1,2 P. Abt,³ M. Bryan,⁴ K. Forde.^1,2
¹Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ³Division of Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background and Aims: The root causes of gender disparities in liver transplantation (LT) have not been fully elucidated. We hypothesize that the source of the…
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Survival Benefit of Kidney and/or Pancreas Transplantation for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes in the United States.
R. Gruessner,¹ M. Laftavi,¹ O. Pankowycz,² V. Whittaker,¹ Z. Acun,¹ V. Aggarwal,² N. Ozden,² A. Gruessner.¹
¹Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY; ²Internal Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Study Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the survival benefit of pancreas and/or kidney transplants as reported over a 28-year time period…
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Intraomental Non-Purified Islet Transplantation Isolated from DCD Donor Pancreas.
S. Wang, G. Pei, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, B. Zhang, Y. Xie, J. Wang, Z. Shen.
Transplant Center, Tianjin First Center Hospital, Tianjin, China
Objective: We have proved that omentum was a more efficient site to perform non-purified islet transplantation with more safety in Beagle dog islet auto-transplantation model.…
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Evaluation of Graft Functional Recovery After Simultaneously Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation with Donation After Cardiac Death in China (16 Cases of Report).
A. Hu, W. Liao, C. Zhang, X. Zhu, X. He.
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Purpose: In recent rears, a pilot program of organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) was initiated in China from general citizens. We describe the first…
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Commonly Expressed Living Donation Fears and Concerns by Non-Directed (Altruistic) Living Kidney Donors in the United States.
A. Maghen,¹ G. Vargas,¹ S. Connor,¹ S. Nassiri,¹ E. Hicks,² L. Kwan,¹ S. Maliski,³ J. Veale.¹
¹Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; ³University of Kansas Medical Center School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS
A. In the United States, many factors, including lack of awareness and misconceptions about living kidney transplantation, create challenges that limit increasing the live kidney…
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Human Regulatory T Cells Undergo Self-Inflicted Damage via Granzyme Pathways Upon Activation.
J. Assaker, E. Karreci, F. Dotiwala, S. Routray, A. Kurdi, A. Mihali, T. Borges, A. Chandraker, L. Riella, R. Abdi, J. Lieberman, J. Azzi.
Transplantation Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
In this study, we investigated the mechanisms behind the activation induced cell death of human regulatory T cells (Tregs) that can explain their rapid loss…
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Liver Targeted Expression of a Single Allogeneic MHC I Molecule Promotes Tolerance to Pancreatic Islet Allograft by Inducing Specific CD8+ Regulatory T Cells in Mice.
V. Le Guen,^1,2 J.-P. Judor,^1,2 V. Gauttier,^1,2 N. Ferry,³ J.-P. Soulillou,^1,2 S. Brouard,^1,2 S. Conchon.^1,2
¹Centre de Recherche en Transplantation et Immunologie UMR1064, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France; ²Institut de Transplantation Urologie Néphrologie (ITUN), CHU Nantes, Nantes, France; ³Département de Thérapie Cellulaire, CHU Saint Louis, Paris, France
A. Induction of donor-specific immune tolerance is a good alternative to chronic life-long immunosuppression for transplant patients. Donor major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules represent the…
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Identification of Promising Targets for Tolerance Induction Following Heart Transplantation.
K. Klaeske, M.-T. Dieterlen, J. Fischer, J. Hahn, K. Jawad, J. Garbade, F. Mohr, S. Lehmann.
Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Introduction: Tolerance-inducing cell subsets which can support the organ acceptance following heart transplantation (HTx) can be found among dendritic cells (DCs) and regulatory T cells…