2018 American Transplant Congress
Cardiovascular Risk and Subclinical Vascular Damage in Patients after Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Cardiovascular (CV) disease causes a high level of morbidity and mortality in adults undergoing solid organ transplantation. Pediatric liver transplant (Li-Tx) recipients were reported to…2018 American Transplant Congress
Using Visual Icons to Present Program Transplant Rate Information to the Public: Results of a Randomized Trial
The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) provides federally mandated program-specific transplant data to the public. SRTR recently developed new website materials to make statistical…2018 American Transplant Congress
Informed Clustering of Donor Service Areas for Better Benchmarking
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
The 58 Donor Service Areas (DSA) represent territories of varying geographic sizes, densities and populations. The intention of this project is to group DSA based…2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Transplant Abuse in China (4): Organ Sources
China Organ Harvest Research Center, Middletown, NY.
PurposeBased on allegations that China has harvested organs from prisoners of conscience in extrajudicial killings on a large scale, this report evaluates China's official organ…2018 American Transplant Congress
Use of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitors to Reduce Gammaherpesvirus Reactivation
Infection with the gammaherpesvirus EBV occurs in over 90% of humans and leads to lifelong viral latency with intermittent reactivation that is typically controlled through…2018 American Transplant Congress
Triptolide Reduces the Required Dose of Tacrolimus by Attenuating Inflammation, Enhancing Immunosuppression, and Increasing Donor Chimerism in a Heterotopic Hindlimb Transplantation Model
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Background: Induction of tolerance and minimizing the toxicity of immuno- suppression are two fundamental goals in vascularized composite allotrans- plantation. Accumulating data indicate that triptolide…2018 American Transplant Congress
Immune Profiling in Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Recipients
Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Introduction: Highly sensitized patients (HSP) express foreign HLA antibodies and have poor graft survival due to higher incidences of graft rejection as compared to non-sensitized…2018 American Transplant Congress
Urinary Proteomic Biomarkers for Prediction of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Background: Chronic antibody-mediated rejection (CAMR) is a challenging issue associated with allograft loss in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) undergoing long-term follow-up. Changes in the urinary…2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Graft Function Correlates with Survival Benefit in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Peripheral Vascular Disease
NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.
Objective: Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is common among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and is a known independent risk factor for increased post-transplant mortality. The…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hard-To-Place Kidney Offers: Granular Examination of Donor Risk Factors for Discard
Background: Deceased-donor kidney discard rates remain high. Understanding risk factors for discard is difficult since most analyses lack granularity and sufficient sample of high disease…
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