2019 American Transplant Congress
Whole Body CT Imaging in Deceased Donor Screening
*Purpose: Using older (extended criteria) donors to increase the donor pool increases the risk of malignancies in the donor. Our aim was to analyze the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Biomarkers in Multivisceral and Intestinal Transplantation
*Purpose: Multivisceral transplant (MVT) and isolated intestinal transplant (ITx) are complex surgical procedures that result in a pro-inflammatory state, making interpretation of biomarkers in the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Willingness to Acquire Donor-Derived Hepatitis C Infection May Reduce Waitlist Mortality for Heart Transplant Candidates
NYU Langone Transplant Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: Hearts from deceased donors with hepatitis C infection (HCV+) are disproportionately discarded because most waitlist registrants are HCV negative (HCV-). For some with end-organ…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pathologic Vascular Invasion Correlates with Worse Outcome in Hepatoblastoma Patients Treated with Liver Transplantation – A Hepatoblastoma Transplant Consortium Study
*Purpose: Orthotopic liver transplant (OLTx) is the most common method to treat unresectable hepatoblastoma (HB) in children. There is limited data focusing on the outcomes…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Important Roles of Dendritic Cells in Transplantation
*Purpose: The interplay between dendritic cells (DCs) and T cells plays a central role in the process of allograft rejection. Upon antigen exposure, positive costimulatory…2019 American Transplant Congress
Full and Sustained Donor Hematopoietic Chimerism after an Isolated Kidney Transplantation
1Paris Descartes University, Paris, France, 2Inserm UMRS 1163, Paris, France
*Purpose: Full donor chimerism was reported three times in the absence of myelosuppressive regimen, only after liver or multivisceral transplantation, but never after kidney transplantation.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Increased Frequency of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells Contributing to Prolong Skin Allograft Survival in Aged Mice
General Surgery, Chang-gung Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
*Purpose: Currently, aged people are increasing and more and more aged people have organ transplantation. The immunity in aged people is weaker than young people.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Generation of Human/Pig Hybrid Thymus to Achieve Immune Tolerance to Pig Antigens with Optimal Immune Function
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Thymus transplantation is a promising approach to induce T-cell tolerance for xenotransplantation. We have previously shown that humanized mice generated with human hematopoietic stem…2019 American Transplant Congress
De Novo Complement-Activating Donor Specific Antibodies in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients Are Highly Responsive to Therapy
Pediatric Nephrology, Stanford, Los Altos, CA
*Purpose: Antibody mediated rejection remains a common cause for pediatric renal allograft loss. After recognizing that graft failure was more common in our pediatric renal…2019 American Transplant Congress
Regional Disparities In The Transplant Rates Across Unos Regions Pre- And Post-kidney Allocation System Policy Implementation
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Geographic distribution of organs for transplant is a critical component of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) policies. However, there is no single…
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