Am J Transplant, Volume 19, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 107 of 214 - ATC Abstracts

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Inflammation and Fibrosis Are Observed in 34% of Clinically Stable Adult Liver Transplant Recipients
L. Sun¹, J. Levitsky², S. Feng³, A. Humar⁴, A. J. Demetris⁴, J. Emond⁵, A. Shaked⁶, G. Klintmalm⁷, K. Mason⁸, M. DesMarais¹, A. Priore⁹, N. Bridges⁹, B. E. Burrell¹⁰, S. Chandran³, J. Markmann¹¹
¹ITN, San Francisco, CA, ²Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UPMC, Pittsburg, PA, ⁵Columbia, New York, NY, ⁶UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, ⁷Baylor, Dallas, TX, ⁸Rho, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁹NIAID, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁰ITN, Bethesda, MD, ¹¹MGH, Boston, MA
*Purpose: OPTIMAL is a 7-center immunosuppression withdrawal (ISW) study in non-autoimmune, non-HCV adult liver transplant recipients ≥3 yrs post-transplant (tx) (NCT02533180). Subjects underwent a screening…
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Outcomes Analysis of U.S. Transplant Centers Performing High Volumes of Hard to Place Kidneys
Y. Qazi¹, D. Bahl², N. Mehta³, Z. Haddad⁴, M. Smogorzewski⁴
¹USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²UC Davis, Sacramento, CA, ³UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, ⁴Keck Medical Center At USC, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Despite a growing number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant, discard rate remains significantly high. The UNOS SRTR data now provides information on all…
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Breaking Concepts: 10-year Follow-Up of the Everolimus versus Azathioprine Heart Transplant Multi-National Study
J. A. Kobashigawa¹, R. Starling², E. Passano¹, P. Bernhardt³, B. Azarbal¹, R. Cheng¹, F. Esmailian¹, K. Khush⁴, D. Mancini⁵, J. Patel¹, T. Sato¹, S. Varnous⁶
¹Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ³Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland, ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁵Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁶APHP, Pitié‐Salpétrière, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
*Purpose: This study is the 10-year follow-up of a randomized double-blind prospective trial that compared everolimus (1.5 mg or 3 mg) to azathioprine. In this…
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Effects of IVIG Therapy and FcγR Polymorphisms on BK Virus Nephropathy in Kidney Transplant Recipients
D. I. Min¹, Y. Chang², T. Shah³
¹Western Univ of Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, ²Mendez National Institute of Transplantation Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, ³St. Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: BK Virus Nephropathy (BKVN) is a major complication in kidney transplant patients. Although standard treatment for BKVN is immunosuppression reduction and/or using leflunomide, studies…
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Generation of Thymic Epithelial Cells from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Prolong Allograft Survival
R. Otsuka, H. Wada, H. Tsuji, A. Sasaki, T. Murata, M. Baghdadi, K. Seino
Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
*Purpose: Pluripotent stem cell (PSC) is a potential source of generating functional therapeutic cells for transplantation. Embryonic stem cells are of absolutely allogeneic origin. Induced…
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Tolerance to ABO A-Antigen Following Treatment of Infant Mice with A-Expressing MHC-Identical Erythrocytes
B. Motyka¹, J. Fersovich¹, M. Sulzer¹, I. Adam¹, J. Pearcey¹, K. Tao¹, C. W. Cairo², P. J. Cowan³, L. J. West¹
¹Dept Pediatrics, Alberta Transplant Institute, Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Immunology Research Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
*Purpose: ABO-incompatible heart transplantation (ABOi HTx) is safe in young children and increases donor access. Post-ABOi HTx, B cell tolerance develops to donor ABO blood…
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Indicators of Impending Pig Organ Xenograft Failure: Relevance to Clinical Xenotransplantation
H. Iwase¹, A. Jagdale¹, T. Yamamoto¹, G. Zhang¹, Q. Li¹, J. Foote¹, D. Ayares², H. Hara¹, D. K. Cooper¹
¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Revivicor, Inc., Blacksburg, VA
*Purpose: In pig-to-baboon organ xenotransplantation, coagulation dysfunction and inflammation have been suggested to be associated with acute humoral xenograft rejection. We have evaluated platelet counts,…
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Oxygenated Hypothermic Machine Perfusion of Kidneys Donated after Circulatory Death: An International Randomised Controlled Trial
I. Jochmans¹, H. S. Hofker², L. Davies³, S. Knight³, J. Pirenne¹, R. J. Ploeg³, -. on behalf of COPE and participating centres⁴
¹Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom
*Purpose: An international, double-blinded, randomised, paired phase 3 trial designed to determine the effect on 1-year graft function of continuous oxygenated (HMPO) vs non-oxygenated hypothermic…
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Accelerating Kidney Allocation: Simultaneously Expiring Offers
M. Kosztowski¹, M. Mankowski², S. Raghavan³, J. Garonzik-Wang¹, D. Axelrod⁴, D. L. Segev¹, S. E. Gentry¹
¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, ³University of Maryland, College Park, MD, ⁴University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Placing kidneys quickly might reduce discard. Additionally, a faster allocation system that reduces cold ischemia time would yield benefits: decreased delayed graft function, shorter…
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Single Cell Sequencing of Human Kidney Allograft
H. Yang¹, H. Suryawanshi², M. Lagman¹, M. Lubetzky¹, A. Alonso¹, S. Seshan¹, T. Tuschl², M. Suthanthiran¹, T. Muthukumar¹
¹Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Rockefeller University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Transcriptome-based clustering of individual cells within the kidney allograft may help identify cell type-specific injury and has the potential to redefine the current histopathology-based…