2019 American Transplant Congress
Fasting Glood Glucose: A Simple and Reliable Marker to Predict Late Pancreas Graft Failure
*Purpose: Causes of early post-transplant pancreas graft failure are well identified. Indeed, this is not the case after the first year. We searched factors which…2019 American Transplant Congress
Correlation between Self-Reported Medication Adherence and Side Effects in Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Medication non-adherence (MNA) is a major risk factor for acute rejection and graft loss amongst all organ groups. It is unclear how medication side…2019 American Transplant Congress
Lifelong Immunosuppression, I Am Sure We Told Them That?: Long Term Medication Adherence in Liver Transplant Patients
*Purpose: Current literature describes demographic information of non-adherent patients and identifies that non-adherence may be predictive of post-txp outcomes. We suspect that patients with private…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.…
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