2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Psychiatry- A Growing Subspecialty. Introducing the Transplant Psychiatry Special Interest Group from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
Purpose: 1. To inform the AST community about the activities of Transplant Psychiatry Special Interest Group that has been operating within the Academy of Psychosomatic…2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Derived Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Infection: Analysis of the OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
DTAC, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
Introduction: HBV can be transmitted from organ donor to recipient and is one of the viruses targeted by US Public Health Service increased risk (IR)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Differences in Antimicrobial Resistance with a Liver Transplant Antibiogram
Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas.
Regulatory requirements for antimicrobial stewardship pose a unique challenge in special populations including transplant recipients. Infection following liver transplant can adversely impact patient outcomes. Moreover,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Timing of Infections after Total Artificial Heart Implantation. What Did We Learn?
Transplant Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.
Background: The total artificial heart (TAH) has become a reliable bridge to heart transplantation. There are no studies describing the timing of infections post-TAH implantation.…2018 American Transplant Congress
CD8-Expressing Transitional B Cells Dominate B Cell Reconstitution in Transplanted Monkeys Receiving Mixed Chimerism Conditioning
Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
IntroductionTolerance of heart or lung allografts have been achieved for the first time in nonhuman primates (NHPs) using a mixed chimerism conditioning regimen. However, the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Conversion to CTLA4Ig Treatment on Tacrolimus-Induced Diabetic Rats
Background: The effect of conversion to cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 immunoglobulin (CTLA4Ig) treatment on tacrolimus (TAC)-induced renal dysfunction is well known, but its effect on…2018 American Transplant Congress
Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation in Pigs: Ischemia Reperfusion Injury is Avoidable?
BACKGROUND&AIMS: In organ transplantation, ischemia and reperfusion injury (IRI) is considered as an inevitable event and the major contributor of graft failure. Great efforts have…2018 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion Prior to Liver Transplantation Can Prevent Platelet Aggregation and Platelet Induced Sinusoidal Cell Injury
Background. Normothermic ex vivo liver perfusion (NEVLP) is a novel method for graft-preservation applied alternatively to static cold storage (SCS). We examined the impact of…2018 American Transplant Congress
Malignancies in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Long-Term Observational Study
Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Background: Previous studies have shown increased incidence of malignancies in patients after kidney transplantation. However, most of the existing data on post-transplant malignancies is limited…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Renal Parenchymal Calcifications in a Cohort of Renal Transplanted Patients and Their Correlations with Long Term Graft Outcome
Background: Renal calcifications(RC) have been described in kidney transplantation(KTx), but the aetiologyand significance of this finding are still unclear. Our aim is to evaluate the…
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