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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Low Kidney Supply to Demand Ratio and Multi-Organ Transplant Centers Are Negatively Associated with Pediatric Renal Transplant Rates Post Kidney Allocation System Implementation: An Analysis of OPTN Data

    P. Almond,1 S. Al-Akash,1 D. Stewart,2 A. Robinson.2

    1CPSST Departments of Surgery and Renal Transplantation, Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX; 2UNOS, Richmond, VA.

    Under the new kidney allocation system (KAS), pediatric (PED) renal (REN) transplant (Tx) candidates have priority to kidneys from donors with KDPI < 35%. We…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy Immune-Mediated Graft Dysfunction in Liver Transplant Recipients with Hepatitis C

    C. Chan,1 E. Agudelo,2 J. Haydek,3 M. Hoteit,4 M. Laurito,5 J. Norvell,3 T. Schiano,6 N. Terrault,2 E. Verna,5 A. Yang,1 J. Levitsky.1

    1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; 2UCSF, San Francisco, CA; 3Emory University, Atl, GA; 4University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 5Columbia University, NY, NY; 6Mount Sinai, NY, NY.

    Background and Aims:Interferon (IFN) treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection after liver transplantation (LT) can result in severe immune-mediated graft dysfunction (IGD). The occurrence…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Basiliximab Induction in HIV-Positive Renal Transplant Recipients Compared to an HIV-Negative Cohort

    J. Schulte,1 C. Richardson,1 V. Stosor,2 K. Cunningham,1 C. D'Agostino,1 C. Kane.1

    1Pharmacy, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago; 2Infectious Diseases and Organ Transplantation, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.

    Purpose: There is an elevated risk of acute rejection in HIV+ renal transplant recipients and continued evaluation of the most appropriate induction therapy remains. Use…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Incidence of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) DNAemia in EBV-Seronegative Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Recipients with EBV-Seropositive Donors

    C. Burton,1 C. Mabilangan,2 J. Preiksaitis.2

    1Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

    Purpose: Since 2002, a pre-emptive approach to post-transplant lymhoproliferative disease prevention has been used at our center that includes EBV viral load (VL) monitoring in…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Inhibition of IL-1R1 Signaling Delays Costimulation Blockade–Resistant Allograft Rejection by Preventing CD8 TEM Expansion

    Y. Liu, Y. Dong, D. Mathews, A. Ghosh, A. Adams.

    Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

    The clinical utilization of Costimulaiton Blockade (CoB) led to improved long-term patient outcomes, but wider adoption of is hampered by increased rates of acute cellular…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Prospective Analysis of EBV+ PTLD Incidence in Pediatric Transplant Recipients in the Modern Era

    O. Martinez,1 S. Krams,1 M. Lapasaran,1 S. Boyd,2 D. Bernstein,2 C. Twist,3 K. Weinberg,2 D. Gratzinger,2 B. Tan,2 B. Armstrong,4 D. Ikle,4 M. Brown,5 M. Robien,5 C. Esquivel,1 The CTOTC-06 Investigators.

    1Surgery/Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; 2Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford; 3Roswell Park, Buffalo; 4Rho, Chapel Hill; 5NIAID/NIH, Bethesda.

    Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) remains a serious problem in the pediatric transplant population. The Clinical Trials of Organ Transplantation in Children (CTOTC)-06 is an NIAID-sponsored…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Mechanisms of Vascularized Bone Marrow Graft Protection of Vascularized Composite Allografts

    E. Buckingham, N. Shockcor, W. Hassanein, C. Drachenberg, A. Nam, S. Bartlett, R. Barth.

    Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

    Background Co-transplantation of vascularized bone marrow (VBM) promotes vascularized composite allograft (VCA) survival with standard immunosuppression in a non-human primate (NHP) model. We investigated mechanisms…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Sensor IRE1α Deficiency Promotes Infiltrating Macrophage Polarization and Induces Long-Term Renal Allograft Acceptance in Mice

    L. Qiu,1 J-.J. Wang,1 X. Yeap,1 D. Fang,2 J. Zhang.1

    1Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; 2Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.

    Objective: Macrophage is involved in the pathogenesis of I/R injury and allograft rejection. However, the mechanisms underlying this is vastly unknown. This study aims to…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Effects of IdeS on HLA-SAB, C1q-SAB and CDC-XM

    S. Järnum,1 A. Runström,1 L. Winstedt,1 T. Lorant,2 C. Kjellman.1

    1Hansa Medical AB, Lund, Sweden; 2Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Transplantation Surgery, Uppsala, Sweden.

    IgG degrading enzyme of Streptococcus pyogenes (IdeS) cleaves human IgG in two steps, first cleaving one of the heavy chains resulting in a single-cleaved IgG…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    New Onset Diabetes after Kidney Transplant: Comparisons of Risks Associated with Various Steroid-Containing Calcineurin Inhibitor and Sirolimus Regimens

    A. Santos, Jr.,1 M. Casey,1 K. Alquadan,1 X. Wen,2 C. Chen,3 A. Gutierrez-Mena,1 K. Womer.1

    1College of Medicine, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 2College of Pharmacy, Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI; 3College of Pharmacy, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

    INTRODUCTION: We aimed to examine the risk of new onset diabetes after transplant (NODAT) associated with the following maintenance immunosuppression regimens in kidney transplant recipients…
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