2019 American Transplant Congress
The Clinical & Economic Impact Of Allosensitization In Liver Alone And Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation
*Purpose: Allosensitization is thought to have marginal impact among patients that undergo liver transplantation (LTA); further among simultaneous liver kidney transplantation (SLKT), livers may protect…2019 American Transplant Congress
Rejection Of Optic And Sciatic Transplants
*Purpose: Mechanisms of rejection of peripheral nerve and optic nerve remains largely unknown. The inability to prevent rejection of the optic nerve has thwarted the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Global Kidney Exchange
*Purpose: Poverty prevents more kidney transplants (KTs) worldwide than any other barrier. Global kidney Exchange (GKE) is a mechanism to overcome this barrier.*Methods: In high-income…2019 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Concentrations Can Be Reliably Measured in Capillary Microsamples
Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
*Purpose: Routine therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of tacrolimus (Tac) is currently performed in venous bloods samples drawn at the hospital. The novel volumetric absorptive microsampling…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Cardiac Work Up Does Not Predict Post-Transplant Cardiac Events at One Year among Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Recipients
*Purpose: Death with functioning kidney allograft due to cardiovascular etiology is among the leading causes of kidney allograft loss after transplantation. Current cardiac work up…2019 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Induction Therapy on Outcomes of De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving Everolimus with Reduced-Dose Calcineurin Inhibitor: 24-Month Results from the TRANSFORM Study
1TRANSFORM Study Group, Basel, Switzerland, 2Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
*Purpose: To assess the effect of induction therapy on efficacy and safety outcomes of de novo renal transplant recipients (RTxR) receiving everolimus with reduced calcineurin…2019 American Transplant Congress
Type-1 Interferons Impair the Key Immunoregulatory Activity of IL-10 in the Promotion of Transplant Tolerance
Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Induction of long term transplant survival by “costimulation blockade” (CoB) regimens is impaired by inflammatory responses. Despite the identification of type-1 interferons (TI-IFN) as…2019 American Transplant Congress
Rapid Growth of HCV-Infected Donors for HCV-Uninfected Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients in the United States
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Several single-center reports of using HCV-viremic organs for HCV-uninfected recipients were recently published in the US. In light of recent DAA introduction, we sought…2019 American Transplant Congress
Effects of Static Subnormothermic Preservation of Extended Warm Ischemic Porcine Kidneys Assessed by Ex-Vivo Machine Perfusion and Renal Transplant Model
Center for Advanced Biomedical Science and Swine Research, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
*Purpose: The donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors has the potential to match the increasing need for transplantable organs, however, DCD kidneys have a higher…2019 American Transplant Congress
Ultra-Short Duration Direct Acting Anti-Viral Prophylaxis to Prevent Virus Transmission from Hepatitis C Viremic Donors to Hepatitis C Negative Kidney Transplant Recipients
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Two recent pilot trials have shown that transplanting hepatitis C (HCV) viremic kidneys in to HCV negative recipients is feasible. These trials used 12…
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