Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 178 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Risk Factors for Early Graft Loss and Mortality in Pancreas Transplant Recipients: A Multivariate Analysis of U.S. Transplants
S. M. Riad¹, A. Adamusiak², S. Jackson³, E. B. Finger², R. Kandaswamy²
¹Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Complex Care Analytics, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: There is limited data on trends of early graft loss within 90 days (EGL). Pancreas donor risk index (PDRI) is a scale of pancreas…
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Apoptotic Exosome-Like Vesicles are Associated with Alloimmune Vascular Injury in Kidney Transplant Recipients
M. Dieude¹, E. Boilard², I. Allaeys², A. Deneault-Marchand¹, J. Turgeon¹, E. Dore², S. Lariviere-Beaudoin¹, A. Karakeussian-Rimbaud¹, S. Collette³, L. Senecal³, M. Hebert¹, H. Cardinal¹
¹Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Québec, Quebec, QC, Canada, ³Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: There is no non-invasive biomarker of alloimmune vascular injury. We have previously characterized exosome-like vesicles enriched in active proteasome and LG3 (ApoExo) that are…
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Opioid-Free Pain Control? Surgical Opioid Avoidance Protocol (SOAP) Following Kidney Transplant
J. Benken¹, M. Campara¹, E. Votta Velis², I. Tzvetanov³, E. Benedetti³
¹Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The opioid epidemic within the United States has devastated patients and their families in addition to triggering a national public health crisis. Unnecessary prescribing…
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Mental Health of Unspecified Anonymous Living Kidney Donors after Donation
W. Zuidema¹, S. Ismail², J. Wetering van de¹, L. Raalten van², W. Weimar¹, E. Massey¹
¹Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Purpose: Aim: Anonymous living kidney donors donates to an unknown stranger. These donors undergo psychosocial assessment to minimize likelihood of psychological harm from donation. The…
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Traveling For Transplant: A Comparison of Singly Listed, Multiply Listed, and Non-Citizen Non-Resident Liver Transplant Candidates
H. J. Braun¹, D. Amara¹, A. Shui¹, C. Huang¹, P. G. Stock¹, R. Hirose¹, F. L. Delmonico², N. L. Ascher¹
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Multiply listed (ML) and non-citizen non-resident (NCNR) patients comprise approximately 8% of the liver transplant (LT) waitlist (WL) and approximately 4% of LT recipients.…
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Therapeutic Targeting of Bile Acid Metabolism Ameliorates Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
M. Ni¹, D. Jin², T. Lu², J. Zhang¹, R. Busuttil¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski¹, J. Zhang², Y. Zhai¹
¹Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
*Purpose: Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is the major nuclear receptor of bile acids, which is also involved in the regulation of innate immune responses. As…
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Novel Role of Qa-1, a Murine Homolog of HLA-E, in Controlling Follicular Helper T Cells During Humoral Alloimmunity
J. Y. Choi¹, S. K. Eskandari¹, S. Cai¹, J. Assaker¹, I. Sulkaj¹, H. Allos¹, J. Alhaddad¹, P. Chu¹, H. Kim², H. I. Cantor², J. R. Azzi¹
¹Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Immunology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is a major challenge in prolonging allograft survival. Limited insight into the humoral alloimmunity hinders the development of therapeutic strategies. We…
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Long-Term Allograft Survival via Donor MHC Chimerism Induced by Exosomes
B. Gonzalez Nolasco, X. Wang, M. Wang, A. Prunevieille, K. M. Lee, J. F. Markmann, G. Benichou
Surgery - Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Allogeneic transplant tolerance has been achieved by inducing mixed hematopoietic chimerism via donor bone marrow transplantation. Tolerance mechanisms in this model involve the presentation…
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Thymoglobulin for Induction Less is Clearly More!
N. Patel, P. Nicole
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*Purpose: The ideal total dose of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) is unknown in the African American (AA) kidney transplant population.The purpose of this study was to…
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Effect of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange on Glomerular Filtration Rate in Patients with Acute Humoral Rejection
M. Maza Moreno, S. Hernandez-Estrada, J. Cano Cervantes, D. Maldonado Tapia, M. Alamilla Sanchez
Nephrology and Transplant Division, CMN 20 de Noviembre, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
*Purpose: AMR is the main risk factor for graft loss, especially after the first post transplant year. Up to 80% of patients achieve response with…