2018 American Transplant Congress
Inflammatory Frailty Index and Mortality after Kidney Transplantation
Frailty is a phenotype of decreased physiologic reserve and is associated with a pro-inflammatory state. Fried frailty (slow walk speed, weight loss, decreased grip, low…2018 American Transplant Congress
Use of Hepatitis-C Treatments after Kidney Transplantation: Impact of the Direct-Acting Antiviral Era
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in kidney transplant (KTx) donors or recipients has correlated with adverse outcomes, partly due to limited treatment options. Development of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Feasibility of a National Class II Matching Strategy for Pediatric Kidney Transplant Candidates
Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a major concern for allograft failure, which could be mitigated by allocation of Class II matched donors. Since children have priority,…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Transplant-Death Index: A Novel Method to Identify Disenfranchised Liver Transplant Waitlist Candidates
Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
The transplant field is seeing a shift in outcome priorities from just 1-year survival to include waitlist metrics such as the transplant rate. Identifying disenfranchised…2018 American Transplant Congress
Prevention of an Adaptive Immune Response by FDA-Approved Immunosuppressive Agents in Baboons with Pig Artery Patch Xenografts
Background: In the pig-to-baboon artery patch model with no immunosuppressive therapy, a graft from a GTKO pig elicits a significant anti-nonGal IgG response, indicating sensitization…2018 American Transplant Congress
IgA Recurrence in a Single Center with a Protocol Biopsy Program
The objective of this study was to determine the rate of recurrence of IgA nephropathy in our program aided by protocol biopsies and protocol driven…2018 American Transplant Congress
Tissue Talks: Graft´s Histological Findings 10 Years after Belatacept or CNI
The BENEFIT study demonstrated that 7 yrs after kidney transplantation (KT), mean eGFR, patient and graft survival, were significantly higher in the belatacept group than…2018 American Transplant Congress
Evolving Etiologies for Readmissions and Their Impact on Graft Survival in Kidney Transplantation
Background: Although readmissions after kidney transplant are a well-known risk factor for graft loss, it is unclear if certain etiologies are associated with poorer outcomes…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Local Liver Supply on Liver Offer Acceptance
1JHU, Baltimore; 2US Naval Academy, Annapolis.
Geographic disparity in access to deceased-donor liver transplantation is well described. The available liver supply in a DSA may affect patient and provider decisions on…2018 American Transplant Congress
T Cell-Mediated Rejection Poses Greater Risk to Graft Survival Than Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplants
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Purpose: In kidney transplants, failure post-biopsy is associated with acute injury transcript expression reflecting the histologically silent tissue response-to-wounding (JCI 120:1862) and antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR),…
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