Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 134 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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The Preclinical Application of the Tactile Discrimination Task in Rat Models
S-.H. Wu,^1,2 C-.J. Wen,^1,2 J-.J. Huang,^1,2,3 Y-.C. Pei,^1,2,3 C-.H. Lin,^1,2,4,5 H. Cheng,¹ Z-.L. Peng,^1,4,5 H-.I. Yang,⁶ F-.C. Wei.^1,2,5
¹Center for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ²College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ³Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Taoyuan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ⁴Division of Trauma and Emergency Plastic Surgery, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ⁵Division of Plastic Reconstructive Microsurgery, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ⁶Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Nerve reinnervation is an important issue in the field of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA). However, nowadays the effective treatment for enhancing the reinnervation after the…
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Screening Coccidioides Serology in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A 10-Year Cross-Sectional Analysis
K. Phonphok,¹ T. Duong,¹ N. Datta,¹ O. Beaird,² J. Shaenman,² S. Bunnapradist.¹
¹Medicine-Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²Medicine-Infectious Diseases, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Introduction: Southern California is one of the endemic areas of coccidioidomycosis and patients receiving immunosuppression including kidney transplant recipients are at higher risk for dissemination…
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Transplant Surgeon Perspectives on General Surgery in Transplant Recipients
S. DiBrito, M. Bowring, S. Rasmussen, C. Haugen, C. Holscher, N. Zonnenberg, M. Henderson, D. Segev, J. Garonzik-Wang.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
Transplant recipients (TR) often require other general surgical procedures; however, it is controversial who should provide surgical and peri-operative care for this unique population. While…
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A Multi-Center Analysis of Risk Factors for Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PCP) in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
S. Hosseini-Moghaddam, M. Shokoohi, G. Singh, S. Dufresne, A. Jevnikar, D. Kabbani, H. Cardinal, I. Houde, M-.J. Hebert, A. Shoker, G. Prasad, A. Humar, D. Kumar.
Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), London, ON, Canada.
Introduction: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is associated with morbidity and mortality in solid organ transplant patients (SOTs). There are increasing reports of late PCP in SOT…
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Factor Analysis (FA) Identifies 5 Major Axes of Kidney Transplant Biopsy (KTxBx) Pathology
L. Hunsicker,¹ J. Grande,² J. Cecka,³ A. Matas,⁴ The DeKaf Consortium.
¹Int. Med., U. Iowa, Iowa City, IA; ²Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ³Immunogenetics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ⁴Surgery, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Definitions for acute rejection (ACR) and antibody mediated rejection (AMR) in KTxBx exist, but no data driven methods exist for quantitative analysis of all Banff,…
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Preformed Donor-Reactive T-Cells That Persist after ABO Desensitization Independently Predict Severe Acute Cellular Rejection after Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
T. Schachtner,^1,2,3 M. Stein,² P. Reinke.^1,2
¹Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ²Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapie (BCRT), Charite Campus Virchow Clinic, Berlin, Germany; ³Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charite and Max Delbrueck Center, Berlin, Germany.
Donor-reactive T-cells have been suggested to impact allograft outcome due to a higher incidence of acute celluar rejection. These donor-reactive memory T-cells rapidly acquire effector…
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Robotic Assisted Live Donor Kidney Transplantation – Technique and Outcomes
H. Pahari,¹ B. Waldman,² J. Stracke,¹ L. Malinzak,¹ J. Denny,¹ D. Kim,¹ W. Jeong,³ M. Menon,³ A. Yoshida.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; ²Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; ³Urology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background: Robotic assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) is now a feasible minimally invasive option in place of open living donor kidney transplant (OKT). Here, we briefly…
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Frequency of Whole-Organ in Lieu of Split-Liver Transplantation over the Last Decade: Children Experienced Increased Wait Time and Death
P. Valentino,¹ S. Emre,² L. Li,³ Y. Deng,³ G. Gan,³ D. Mulligan,² U. Ekong,¹ M. Rodriguez-Davalos.⁴
¹Pediatrics, Hepatology, Yale University, New Haven, CT; ²Surgery, Transplant, Yale University, New Haven, CT; ³Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT; ⁴Surgery, Transplant, Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT.
Background: Organ shortage is a barrier in liver transplantation (LT). Split liver transplantation (SLT) increases organ utilization where a donor provides segmental grafts to 2…
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Pancreas Transplant in the Elderly Patient – Should It Be Done?
A. Gruessner,¹ M. Laftavi,² O. Pankewycz,² R. Gruessner.¹
¹SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; ²SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Introduction: While kidney transplantation in the elderly diabetic patient is an accepted treatment of the secondary complication, pancreas transplants are controversial. Many centers have an…
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Ablation of IRF4 Induces Transplant Tolerance by Driving Intrinsic T Cell Dysfunction
J. Wu,^1,2 H. Zhang,¹ X. Shi,¹ X. Xiao,¹ Y. Fan,¹ J. Xia,² R. Sciammas,^1,3 X. Li,^1,3 W. Chen.^1,3
¹Center for Immunobiology & Transplant Science, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX; ²Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China; ³Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY.
How transplant rejection is regulated on a transcriptional level remains unclear. We found that T cell-specific conditional knockout (cKO) of the transcription factor IRF4 in…