2017 American Transplant Congress
Role of Induction Therapy in Low Immune Risk Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mate Kidney Analysis.
Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
In the current era of powerful maintenance immunosuppression, it is unclear whether induction therapy positively adds to the outcomes in low immune risk kidney transplant…2017 American Transplant Congress
Biliary Complications Following Liver Transplantation – Single-Center Experience Over Three Decades and Recent Risk Factors.
Core Facility Quality Management Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
This study aims to identify independent risk factors for biliary complications after liver transplantation over 3 decades in a large single center. 1607 consecutive liver…2017 American Transplant Congress
Complications Requiring Reoperation After Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Context: Reoperative complications after liver transplantation have been shown to decrease patient and graft survival in adults; this effect, however, has not been studied in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Safety of Liver Donation from Living Donors with Sickle Cell Trait.
Background:Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) is an important source of organs particularly with the cadaveric organ shortage. It is the main source of liver transplant…2017 American Transplant Congress
Preoperative Pulmonary Hypertension Is Not Associated with Adverse Outcomes After Lung Transplantation.
Purpose: The effect of preoperative pulmonary hypertension (PH)[mdash]that is, mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) of 25mmHg or higher[mdash]on lung transplantation (LTx) outcomes is debatable.Methods: We…2017 American Transplant Congress
HLA, ANA, and ANCA Negative Vasculitis in Lung Transplantation Due to Overexpression of α1 Collagen V.
The mechanism of fibrosing vasculopathy in lung allograft is poorly understood. A 58 year old man received a bilateral lung transplant for interstitial lung disease.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Conservative Management of Pneumatosis Intestinalis After Pediatric Liver Transplantation.
BACKGROUND: Pnuematosis intestinalis (PI), characterized by gas in the bowel wall, is a rare pathologic finding in pediatric liver transplantation (PLT) recipients. PI has been…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Pretransplant Panel-Reactive Antibody Level on Ocular Surface Stem Cell Survival and Visual Outcome.
1University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; 2Cincinnati Eye Institute, Cincinnati, OH
Purpose: Panel-Reactive Antibody (PRA) is a screening test for a range of known human leukocyte antigens which signifies the proportion of the population that the…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Role of Anti-Neu5Gc IgM in Xenograft Antibody Mediated Rejection.
Background:Acute antibody mediated rejection due to preformed antibodies present in human serum remains a hurdle to successful xenotransplantation. Here, we measured anti-Neu5Gc-IgM antibody titers in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Correlation of Complement Activating Donor Specific Antibodies as Measured by C3d and Cross-Match Status.
Introduction. Complement dependent cytotoxicity, first described in 1969 is the only functional assay studying complement activation. C3d assay is developed recently to study complement activation…
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