2018 American Transplant Congress
Waning Enthusiasm for a Once Promising Test: C1q Testing Does Not Provide Prognostic Information for DSA Screening Protocols
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
Introduction: Testing of donor specific antibodies (DSA) for binding of complement component C1q has been used to better elucidate pathologic antibodies from more benign reactions.…2018 American Transplant Congress
ABO-Incompatibility Lower Incidence of DSA-Induced Antibody-Mediated Rejection
Introduction:Donor-specific anti-HLA antibody (DSA) and Anti-ABO antibody are major barriers for successful kidney transplantation. Limited data are available about the existences of both DSA and…2018 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Graft Function in Live Donor HLA-Incompatible Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Study
1JHU, Baltimore; 2UCSF, San Francisco.
Background: Many patients with a willing, but incompatible live donor choose to undergo incompatible live donor kidney transplantation (ILDKT) facilitated by desensitization procedures to eliminate…2018 American Transplant Congress
Gains from Joining Kidney Paired Donation with Several Incompatible Donors
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
In kidney paired donation (KPD), a transplant candidate with an incompatible donor joins a pool of similar pairs in an effort to find new transplant…2018 American Transplant Congress
Brincidofovir for Disseminated Adenovirus in Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients: Report of a Case Series
Background: Adenoviruses (AdV) are DNA viruses that can cause significant morbidity and mortality rates up to 50% with disseminated disease. The incidence post-renal transplantation is…2018 American Transplant Congress
Lower Uric Acid Level after Kidney Transplantation Impact on Better Long-Term Allograft Outcomes
BackgroundIt has been on debate that hyperuricemia was an independent risk factor for poor prognosis in kidney transplantation. Considering the link of UA with diabetes,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation is Associated with Decreasing Native T1 Time: A Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study
Patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) have high rate of cardiovascular death. Kidney transplantantion, on the other hand, is associated with lower cardiovascular…2018 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Carotid Arterial Inflammation in De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients as Assessed by 18F-FDG PET/CT
Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Purpose: Inflammatory activity of the arterial wall can be assessed by measuring 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake with positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT). Improvement in vascular…2018 American Transplant Congress
Recent Exposure to Four-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate (4F-PCC) is Associated with Intracardiac Thrombus during Liver Transplantation
BackgroundPatients with ESLD often have imbalance in hemostasis & monitoring traditional coagulation lab markers are generally not helpful. Intracardiac thrombus (ICT) during liver transplant (LT)…2018 American Transplant Congress
Does Biliary Duct Reconstruction Technique Impact Liver Transplantation Outcomes?
Introduction: The rate of biliary complication after liver transplantation remains high. The choice of biliary reconstruction technique may depend on the patient's primary disease, possible…
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