2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Glycemic Control on Long Term Graft and Patient Outcomes after Pancreas Transplantation
*Purpose: Successful pancreas transplantation (PTX) has been demonstrated to be efficacious in improving quality of life, eliminating diabetic complications and potentially curing diabetes. However, the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Should Preceding Solo-Kidney Transplantation for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes with End Stage Renal Failure Be Carried Out?
*Purpose: Patients with type 1 diabetes with end stage renal failure are indicated for SPK, but if the family requests a renal donation and living…2019 American Transplant Congress
Immunosuppressant Adherence in Adult Heart Transplant Recipients: An Analysis of Pharmacy Claims and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Data
*Purpose: The current study was conducted to determine characteristics that are associated with immunosuppressant (IS) medication adherence among adult recipients of deceased donor heart transplants…2019 American Transplant Congress
Correlation between Self-Reported Medication Adherence and Side Effects in Cardiothoracic Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Medication non-adherence (MNA) is a major risk factor for acute rejection and graft loss. It is unclear how medication side effects (SE) and perceived…2019 American Transplant Congress
Sirolimus in Geriatric Kidney Transplantation: Modification of Outcomes by Pre-Transplant History of Malignancy or Cardiovascular Disease
*Purpose: We analyzed the outcomes associated with sirolimus (SRL)-regimens in geriatric (>/=65-year-old) kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).*Methods: Using 2000-2016 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data, Cox…2019 American Transplant Congress
A Novel Protocol to Produce Massive Amounts of Autologous Thymus-Derived Treg Cells (ThyTreg) to Be Employed as Cellular Therapy in Heart Transplanted Children: A New Paradigm for the Prevention of Graft Rejection
*Purpose: Immune allograft rejection remains the main obstacle to successful transplants. Although transfer of regulatory T cells (Treg) has acquired growing interest in achieving indefinite…2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease Growth Failure Threshold on Waitlist Mortality in Children Awaiting Liver Transplant
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: To examine the impact on waitlist mortality of Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD)’s incorporation of growth failure (GF) as a threshold variable—present or absent…2019 American Transplant Congress
Development and Validation of a Capillary Blood Mitra-Based Assay for the Quantitative Determination of Advagraf® Concentrations in Transplant Patients
*Purpose: Therapeutic drug monitoring of tacrolimus (TAC) requires venepuncture blood samples taken by specialists, requiring patients to attend an outpatient clinic; this can be inconvenient…2019 American Transplant Congress
Costs of Kidney Recoveries Varies Dramatically across Organ Procurement Organizations
*Purpose: Report on the wide variation across OPOs in the cost of kidney recovery from deceased donors.*Methods: Cost reports (CMS 216-94 Form) from 52 Independent…2019 American Transplant Congress
Analysis and Regulation of Immune Reaction in the Transplantation from MHC Homozygous Donors to Heterozygous Recipients with Minor Antigen Mismatches
Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
*Purpose: Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is expected to be the source of therapeutic cells in the regenerative medicine. Autologous derivation of iPSCs is the…
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