2020 American Transplant Congress
New Strategy to Maximize Nanomedicine Delivery During Ex Vivo Organ Perfusion
*Purpose: Organ transplant is a highly successful therapy for patients facing end stage organ failure. However, there is a severe lack of transplantable organs which…2020 American Transplant Congress
Oxidative Stress Induces Cytoprotective Alternative Splicing in Carcinoembryonic Antigen Related Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 in Mouse Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Surgery, Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: We have recently shown that carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1 (CEACAM1) serves as a checkpoint regulator in liver transplant (LT) ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI);…2020 American Transplant Congress
The Learning Curve for Pure Laparoscopic Robotic Kidney Transplantation: An Analysis of Outcomes of the First 80 Consecutive Cases at a High-Volume Transplant Center
*Purpose: Robotic surgery is increasingly used in complex operations, including living-donor kidney transplantation. At this time, knowledge of the number of cases required to attain…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of HLAi Transplant in CPRA 98-100 after Desensitization: Single Center Experience
1Cedars Sinai Medical Ctr, Los Angeles, CA, 2Pathology, Cedars Sinai Medical Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The new KAS implementation aimed at increasing equity in organ allocation for broadly sensitized (HS) patients. However, recent data shows that for the most…2020 American Transplant Congress
Cytomegalovirus Infection and Disease in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Burden of Disease Under a Preemptive Therapy Approach
Transplant Department, Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez, Mexico City, Mexico
*Purpose: To report the incidence cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection (CMV-I) and disease (CMV-D) in a cohort of pediatric liver transplant recipients under preemptive therapy, identify risk…2020 American Transplant Congress
Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients Over Five Years. A Single Center Experience
*Purpose: Mycobacterium abscessus is increasingly recognised as a human pathogen causing life-threatening infections in immunocompetent patients. Data about clinical outcomes of M. abscessus infections in…2020 American Transplant Congress
Post- Transplant Recurrence of IgA Nephropathy: HLA as a Predictive Factor
*Purpose: Genomic studies have identified several HLA antigens to be associated with IgA Nephropathy in the native kidney. In contrast to the native kidney, there…2020 American Transplant Congress
Exosomes Released from Natural Killer Cells Activation of Immune Responses: Role in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Recent studies demonstrated natural killer (NK) cells can induce cytotoxicity both by direct cytotoxic mechanisms and antibody (Ab) dependent cytotoxicity; however its role in…2020 American Transplant Congress
Epitope Analysis of Complement-Binding De Novo Donor-Specific HLA Class II Antibody
*Purpose: Patients with de novo donor specific antibody (dnDSA) after kidney transplantation have a poorer prognosis than patients without dnDSA. Meanwhile, patients with dnDSA do…2020 American Transplant Congress
CEACAM1 / ASK1 / p38 Signaling Axis Alleviates Peri-Transplant Liver Injury: From Mouse-to-Human
1UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
*Purpose: Although CEACAM1 (CM1; carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1; CD66a) regulates hepatic metabolic homeostasis, its role in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) remains unknown. A…
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