Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 127 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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Taking Your Center's Temperature: Using a Heat Map to Target Your Transplant-Specific Education for Regulatory Compliance
J. Anderson, D. Cassidy, D. Dubay, P. Hart, A. Hauser, N. Pilch.
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
Background: Large, multi-organ transplant centers struggle with implementation of a comprehensive strategy for development and execution of a Transplant-specific education plan. Regulatory requirements for staff…
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Allogeneic T Follicular and T Conventional Responses Assessed by Proliferation, Cytokine Production, and TCR Clonality
C. Macedo,¹ M. Yamada,¹ X. Gu,¹ M. Suchoroski,² D. Hamm,² M. Kaplan,² D. Metes.¹
¹Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh; ²Adaptive Biotechnologies, Seattle.
Background: Human CD4+ T cell allo-immunity plays pivotal roles during cellular and humoral allograft rejection. Our previous analysis showed that allo-reactive precursors were present in…
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Trends in Liver Transplantation with Older Liver Donors in the United States
C. Haugen, X. Luo, A. Thomas, C. Holscher, J. Garonzik-Wang, M. McAdams-DeMarco, D. Segev.
Surgery, JHU, Baltimore.
As the US population ages, older liver donors (OLDs) represent a potential expansion of the donor pool. Historically, grafts from OLDs have been associated with…
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Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis is an Independent Risk Factor for Development of Urinary Tract Infections in Kidney Transplantation
J. Lee,¹ A. Sholi,¹ C. Gong,¹ M. Magruder,¹ S. Albakry,¹ E. Edusei,¹ B. Botticelli,¹ D. Dadhania,¹ M. Lubetzky,¹ Y. Taur,² L. Ling,² E. Pamer,² M. Suthanthiran.¹
¹Weill Cornell, NY, NY; ²Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY, NY.
INTRODUCTION. We examine the relationship between the gut microbiota and development of Escherichia and Enterococcus urinary tract infections (UTIs).METHODS. We recruited 170 kidney transplant recipients…
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Validating Molecular Microscope Readings and Estimating Agreement with Histology
P. Halloran, J. Reeve, The INTERCOMEX Study Group.
ATAGC, Edmonton, Canada.
We previously described a microarray diagnostic system (MMDx) for rejection in 1208 kidney transplant biopsies (J. Reeve et al. JCI Insight 2 (12), 2017). The…
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Donation after Circulatory Death Donor Liver Transplantation without Ischemic Cholangiopathy: Is It Time to Expand DCD Liver Donor Pool?
C. Kubal,¹ P. Mihaylov,^1,2 B. Ekser,¹ A. Cabrales,¹ J. Fridell,¹ R. Mangus.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis; ²Division of General Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, University of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.
Background: To prevent ischemic cholangiopathy (IC) after liver transplantation (LT), a protocol optimizing peri-operative conditions along with thrombolytic (tissue plasminogen activator) donor flush during DCD…
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Ablation of Both mTOR and STAT3 in T Cells Induces Heart Transplant Acceptance in Donor Skin-Sensitized Mice
A. Xie,^1,2 W. Chen.^2,3
¹Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China; ²Center for Immunobiology and Transplantation Research, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX; ³Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY.
Allogeneic memory T cell response precludes the induction of transplant acceptance; how this process is regulated at the molecular level remains unclear. Both mTOR and…
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PGE2/Beta-Catenin/XBP1 Signaling Controls Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Mediated Immune Regulation in Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury
C. Li, S. Yue, L. Jiang, Q. Zhu, D. Farmer, R. Busuttil, J. Kupiec-Weglinski, B. Ke.
The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) display profound immunomodulatory properties and tissue repairing capability under inflammatory conditions. However, it is unknown how MSCs may affect immunity…
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Increasing the Donor Pool for Highly Sensitized Patients with Allele Specific Antibodies: Optimizing the Virtual Crossmatch (vXM)
A. Zhang,¹ Z. Zaky,² J. Africa,³ D. Good,¹ R. Bray,⁴ H. Gebel.⁴
¹Allogen Laboratories, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ²Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ³Transplant Surgery, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston; ⁴Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta.
Background:Since implementation of the current Kidney Allocation System, highly sensitized patients with 98-100% cPRA (HSPs) are receiving ~10% of deceased donor kidneys compared to <2%…
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The Living Donor Lost Wages Trial: Study Rationale, Protocol, and Update
J. Rodrigue,¹ M. Pavlakis,¹ A. Evenson,¹ A. Fleishman,¹ M. Carroll,¹ D. Mandelbrot,² P. Baliga,³ D. Howard,⁴ J. Schold.⁵
¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; ³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; ⁴Emory University, Atlanta, GA; ⁵Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the optimal treatment for adults with renal failure. However, living kidney donation has declined in the past decade, particularly…