Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 20 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

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No Correlation between US News "Best Hospitals" Rank and Outcome of Liver or Kidney Transplantation
J. Shreve,¹ S. Markowiak,² M. Nazzal,² J. Ortiz.²
¹University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH; ²Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH.
Introduction:Increased need for quality and cost effective healthcare has led to lay-press rankings such as U.S. News and World Report (USN). USN's “Best Hospitals” publication…
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Reducing Hospital Readmissions: Referral of High Risk Liver Transplant Patients to a Transitional Care Coordination(TCC) Program
A. Masoumi,¹ R. Barth,² T. Stern,¹ D. Bruno,² J. LaMattina,² S. Hanish.²
¹University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
One-fifth of Medicare patients are readmitted to the hospital an annual cost of $17.4 billion. The readmission rate among liver transplant patient populations at a…
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Peri-Transplant Glycaemic Control as a Predictor of Pancreas Transplant Survival
M. Shapey,^1,2 R. Tan,¹ H. Khambalia,² C. Fullwood,² P. Yianoullou,^1,2 A. Summers,² T. Augustine,² M. Rutter,¹ D. van Dellen.²
¹Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; ²Department of Renal and Pancreatic Transplantaion, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Introduction: The impact of peri-transplant glycaemic control on outcomes after pancreas transplantation is unknown. Our aims were to relate peri-transplant glycaemic control to survival and…
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BK Viremia in Simultaneous Kidney Pancreas Recipients: Single Center Experience
M. Alebrahim,¹ R. Pelletier,¹ A. Rajab,¹ G. Bumgardner,¹ R. Daloul,² C. Akateh,³ K. Washburn,¹ A. El-Hinnawi.¹
¹Transplant Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; ²Nephrology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; ³Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Introduction: The impact of BK viremia in recipients of simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation (SPK) is not well known. We therefore studied the incidence and…
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To Score a Pancreas, Stars Must Be Aligned
A. Friedman, P. Bagavan, K. Delli Carpini.
LiveOnNY, NY.
Excellent medical care and readily accessible insulin preparations serve to require a very high quality of deceased donor pancreas organs accepted for transplantation. Improving, prevailing…
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Innovative Strategies to Accommodate Increased Patient Volume in an Outpatient Transplant Infusion Center
J. Estrada, M. Tyrell, J. Choi, J. Jagolino, S. Jordan.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: To accommodate the increasing volume of patients scheduled for infusions at the Comprehensive Transplant Center(CTC) Infusion suite. It began as a two chair unit…
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Human CD8⁺CD28^– Ts Cells Expanded by Common Gamma Chain (γc) Cytokines Keep Steady Allospecific Suppressive Capacity In Vivo
G. Liu,¹ F. Feng,¹ P. Zhu,¹ J. Liu,² Y. Liu,¹ Y. Yu.²
¹Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Science, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; ²Department of Urology, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Background: CD8+CD28- T suppressor (Ts) cells were recently reported to play a critical role in transplant tolerance, harnessing the potential for clinical use in transplantation.…
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Standard Induction Immunosuppression Interferes with the Role of Vascularized Bone Marrow in Vascularized Composite Allograft Protection
N. Shockcor, E. Buckingham, W. Hassanein, A. Nam, S. Bartlett, R. Barth.
Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: Clinical induction therapies have been demonstrated to interfere with the development of immunologic tolerance in experimental models. Vascularized bone marrow (VBM) has been demonstrated…
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In Vitro α-Galactosylceramide Stimulation Expands CD4⁺CD25⁺Foxp3⁻ Regulatory T Cell Precursors in Murine Thymocytes
H. Katsumata,^1,2 M. Ikemiyagi,¹ T. Kanzawa,¹ H. Fukuda,¹ R. Ishii,¹ K. Saiga,^1,3 M. Okumi,¹ Y. Ishii,⁴ K. Tanabe.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; ³Urology, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan; ⁴Laboratory for Immunotherapy, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan.
Background: We previously established mixed chimerism after invariant natural killer T-cell stimulation by administration of liposomal α-galactosylceramide (lipo-αGC) and costimulatory blockade, leading to regulatory T…
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Application of RNA-Seq Derived Diagnostic Algorithms of T-Cell Mediated Kidney Rejection (TCMR) to DNA Microarray-Based Gene Expression Datasets
Z. Wang,¹ L. Pan,² Z. Lyu,² P. Liu,³ G. Tseng,³ P. Randhawa.¹
¹Department of Pathology, The Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China; ³Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Recent years have seen the development of DNA microarray based tools for the diagnosis of TCMR using fresh frozen tissue. This study has accomplished the…