Am J Transplant, Volume 18, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 84 of 211 - ATC Abstracts

2018 American Transplant Congress
As Clear as Mud: Volatility of the Five-Tier Quality Assessment of Kidney Transplant Centers in the United States
J. Schold,¹ K. Andreoni,² A. Chandraker,³ R. Gaston,⁴ J. Locke,⁴ A. Mathur,⁵ T. Pruett,⁶ A. Rana,⁷ L. Ratner,⁸ L. Buccini.¹
¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; ²University of Florida, Gainesville; ³Harvard Medical School, Boston; ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham; ⁵Mayo Clinic, Phoenix; ⁶University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; ⁷Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; ⁸Columbia University, New York.
Outcomes of patients receiving transplants in the US are systematically aggregated into bi-annual Program-Specific Reports(PSRs) detailing risk-adjusted survival by transplant center. Recently the SRTR issued…
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Non-Myeloablative Conditioning with Low-Dose Total Body Irradiation in Place of Cyclophosphamide Induces Mixed Chimerism and Long-Term Immunosuppression Free Allograft Survival without Acute Kidney Injury in HLA Mismatched Kidney Transplantation
T. Kawai,¹ T. Spitzer,¹ T. Oura,¹ N. Torkoff-Rubin,¹ N. Elias,¹ M. Sykes,² R. Colvin,¹ D. Sachs,² A. Cosimi.¹
¹Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University, New York, NY.
We have achieved successful induction of long-term immunosuppression (IS) free renal allograft survival in HLA mismatched kidney transplantation using cyclophosphamide (CP) based conditioning and combined…
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Results of LITMUS (NCT 02541916): The Liver Immune Tolerance Bio Marker Utilization Study
A. Chruscinski,¹ V. Rojas-Luengas,¹ A. Issacher,¹ J. Luo,⁴ H. Yowanto,⁴ N. Selzner,¹ L. Lilly,¹ R. Smith,¹ E. Renner,¹ J. Zhang,¹ D. Grant,¹ O. Adeyi,¹ H. Atkins,² P. Juni,³ G. Levy.¹
¹Multi Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²The Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada; ³Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴SCIEX, Brea, CA.
Background: Previously we reported a novel biomarker gene set for the identification of tolerance in murine models of rapamycin-induced cardiac tolerance and spontaneous hepatic tolerance.…
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Extended Criteria Donors Have Higher Expression of Inflammatory Genes Than Standard Donors
M. Abbud-Filho,^1,2,3 M. Fernandes-Charpiot,^1,2 M. Baptista,^1,2 H. Caldas,^1,2 G. Florim.¹
¹Medicine, Laboratory of Immunology and Experimental Transplantation - LITEX, Medical School of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ²Transplant, Kidney Transplant Unit, Hospital de Base, FAMERP/FUNFARME, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ³Urology and Nephrology Institute, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Background.Changes to an organ occur at the time of brain death where a series of inflammatory modify occur within the organ. Because it is not…
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Hyaluronic Acid as Early Biomarker of Graft Loss after Liver Transplantation: A Prospective Study
A. Rostved,¹ S. Ostrowski,² L. Peters,³ J. Lundgren,³ C. Sørensen,¹ H-.C. Pommergaard,¹ J. Hillingsø,¹ A. Rasmussen.¹
¹Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Transplantation, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; ²Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; ³CHIP, Department of Infectious Diseases, Section 2100, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Introduction: Improved diagnosis and understanding the pathophysiology of early allograft dysfunction is essential to improve the short-term outcome after liver transplantation (LT). Hyaluronic acid (HA)…
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Tacrolimus Exposure in Human Proximal Tubule Cells Results in Differentially Increased CTGF Expression in Relation to Pharmacogenetic Variants of CYP3A5 and ABCB1
N. Knops,¹ Y. Ramazani,² B. Van den Heuvel,² R. Goldschmeding,³ T. Nguyen,³ E. Levtchenko,¹ D. Kuypers.⁴
¹Paediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ²Laboratory of Paediatrics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ³Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; ⁴Nephrology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
AIM: Clinical studies have demonstrated the importance of genetic variation for tacrolimus disposition and suggested a role in the development of renal fibrosis associated with…
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Neuropeptide PACAP Protects Hepatocyte against Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by Promoting Yes-Associated Protein (YAP) Function
Z. Xue, Y. Liu, C. Zhang, R. Busuttil, J. Kupiec-Weglinski, H. Ji.
Dept of Surgery, The DumontUCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Previously we have demonstrated that neuropeptide pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptides (PACAP) suppressed local inflammation, and protected liver against IRI by innervating the liver and…
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Hyperglycemia-Triggered ATF6-CHOP Pathway Exacerbates Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: Immunomodulation by Regulating β-Catenin Signaling
J. Rao,^1,2 C. Yang,¹ Y. Hu,¹ S. Yang,¹ Y. Xia,¹ F. Zhang,¹ X. Wang,¹ Y. Zhai,² L. Lu.^1,2
¹Department of Liver Surgery/Liver Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; ²Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
Background & Aims: Hyperglycemia is a risk factor for hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) during liver transplantation or hepatectomy; however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Our…
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The Complexity of HLA-DQ
D. Pinelli, A. Tambur.
Northwestern University, Chicago.
Historically, HLA-DQ antigens and antibodies (Ab) were difficult to classify due to the lack of serological typing reagents. However, with the advent of molecular typing…
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An Increase in Spot Urine Protein Excretion during the First Year after Kidney Transplantation Associates with Subclinical De-Novo Donor-Specific Antibodies and Microvascular Inflammation at 1-Year Surveillance Biopsies
M. Arnol,¹ G. Mlin[scaron]ek,¹ M. Oblak,¹ A. Kandus,¹ N. Kojc,² J. Buturović-Ponikvar.¹
¹Department of Nephrology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; ²Institute of Pathology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Introduction. We investigated whether an increase in spot urine protein excretion during the first year after kidney transplantation associates with subclinical de-novo donor-specific antibodies (DSA)…