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  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Felodipine Diminishes Decline in Glomerular Filtration Rate in Lung Transplanted Patients Treated with Cyclosporine: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial.

    M. Hornum,1 M. Iversen,2 P. Oturai,3 M. Andersen,2 M. Zemtsovski,4 P. Bredahl,4 N. Bjarnason,2 K. Christiansen,5 J. Carlsen,2 C. Møller,6 B. Feldt-Rasmussen,1 M. Perch.2

    1Nephrology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2Cardiology, Section for Lung Transplantation, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 4Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 5Public Health, Section of Biostatics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 6Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Background. Calcium channel blockers may ameliorate the decline in renal function caused by calcineurin inhibitors in lung transplant (LTX) recipients. We previously demonstrated a 47…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    C4d Immunohistochemistry in Lung Allograft Interstitial Capillaries Lacks Linear Correlation with Donor Specific Antibodies, yet It Is Still Diagnostically Relevant.

    Y. Butt,1 T. Gokaslan,1 V. Kaza,2 F. Torres,2 J. Torrealba.1

    1Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 2Lung Transplant Program, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    Antibody mediated rejection in lung allograft biopsies is not well defined from a morphologic or immunohistochemical aspect. Many centers routinely run immunohistochemistry for C4d as…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Pediatric Live-Donor Liver Transplantation Survivors: Patient and Allograft Outcomes.

    N. Celik,1 A. Ganoza,1 G. Bond,1 K. Soltys,1 R. Sindhi,1 P. McKiernan,3 A. Humar,2 G. Mazariegos.1

    1Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; 3Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Pittsburgh, PA

    Aim: To determine the patient and allograft outcomes at 5 years after pediatric live-donor liver transplantation (LDLT).Methods: Children with a minimum of 5-year survival post-transplantation…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Insertion Through Vagina and Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Kidney Transplantation: A Pilot Study.

    P. Modi,1 B. Pal,1 S. Kumar,1 R. Nagarajan,1 V. Kothari,1 M. Modi,2 V. Shah,2 V. Kute,3 H. Patel,3 H. Trivedi.3

    1Transplantation Surgery and Urology, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India; 2Anesthesiology, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India; 3Nephrology, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India

    Minimally invasive kidney transplantation is emerging modality of treatment; both laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic kidney transplantation are technically feasible and safe. In female recipients,…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Lack of Xenograft Recipient Monitoring by Telemetry Lets Infection Go Unchecked and Trigger Coagulopathy.

    M. Mohiuddin,1 A. Singh,1 J. Chan,1 P. Corcoran,1 B. Lewis,2 M. Thomas,2 D. Ayares,3 K. Horvath.1

    1NHLBI / NIH, Bethesda; 2ORS / NIH, Bethesda; 3Revivicor, Inc, Blackburgh

    Introduction: A major complication of a xenograft is the potential for coagulation disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia and bleeding. This complication was rarely seen in our…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Two Anti-CD20 Abs on B Cell Depletion and Reconstitution in Non-Human Primates.

    W. Sun,1 N. O'Neill,1 T. Zhang,1 G. Braileanu,1 K. Reimann,2 R. Pierson,1 A. Azimzadeh.1

    1Dept. of Surgery, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2MassBiologics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, MA

    Background: B lymphocytes play a central role in host immunity, including antibody elaboration and antigen presentation, and B-cell depletion is being explored to modulate alloimmunity.…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Age > 50 Years and CIT Longer Than 18 Hour Are Independent Risk Factors for One Year Graft Survival in Renal Transplant Form Uncontrolled Donors After Circulatory Death (uDCD).

    M. Molina, E. Gutierrez, E. Gonzalez, E. Morales, J. Cabrera, A. Andres.

    Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; Nephrology Department, Hospital Evangelico y Hospital Militar, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Introduction: Kidneys transplantations (KT) from uDCD have higher ischemia injury. It develops in higher primary non-function and delayed graft function, lower graft survival and worst…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Barriers to Becoming Active on the Renal Transplant Waiting List: Have They Changed in the Last Five Years?

    E. van Hardeveld,1 T. Furlong,2 A. Robertson,2 N. Suh,2 S. Thwaites,2 R. Millar,2 R. Masterson,1 M. Lian,1 B. Jones,1 P. Hughes.1

    1Department of Nephrology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; 2Nephrology Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

    PURPOSEWe have previously studied the barriers preventing patients from being made active on the transplant waiting list (TWL) and implemented practice changes to improve the…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluating Online Information on Youtube for Kidney Transplant.

    P. Sheiner, S. Silver.

    Transplant Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT

    There are many frequently asked questions (FAQs) about kidney transplant that may not be answered by visits to the transplant center. Not all patients have…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Raising Awareness of the Importance of Exercise Training in Solid Organ Transplant: A Description of a Canadian Knowledge Dissemination Project.

    T. Janaudis-Ferreira,1 S. Mathur,2 T. Blydt-Hansen.3

    1School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 3BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

    IntroductionHealthcare professionals are challenged by lack of knowledge of the evidence on optimal ways to assess and train solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates and recipients.…
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