Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 4 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Organ Donation among Asian American Physicians
M. T. Li, G. C. Hillyer, D. Kim, K. L. King, S. A. Husain, S. Mohan
Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose: Asian Americans have the lowest organ donation registration rates in the United States (US). Physicians in Asian communities are often sought out for advice…
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Health Mindsets Can Influence Psychosocial Ratings in Pediatric Renal Transplant Patients
R. Wright, A. Gallo, L. Maestretti, C. Mueller
Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: There is a large body of research which shows psychological states can influence health and behavioral outcomes, yet in clinical practice, psychosocial states are…
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Foxp3⁺ Innate and TGF-ß⁺ Adaptive Regulatory Immune Cells in Quilty Lesions are Associated with Acceptance of Heart Allograft
S. A. Moore, C. K. Metter, Q. Cai, J. R. Torrealba
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: To evaluate the cellular composition of Quilty lesions in heart transplant biopsies and their association with acceptance or rejection of cardiac allografts.*Methods: This study…
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Resilience in Heart Transplant Candidates
Y. T. Bui¹, D. S. Yip², B. W. Hardaway³, S. M. Dunlay⁴, S. Jowsey-Gregoire⁵, R. Benzo⁶, R. C. Daly⁷, M. A. Hathcock⁸, K. Thompson⁹, C. C. Kennedy¹⁰
¹Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁸Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁹Pulmonary Clinical Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Resilience is the capacity to adapt to or recover from adverse experiences. Our objective was to measure resilience in waitlisted, adult heart transplant candidates…
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Survival Following Simultaneous Liver-Lung versus Liver Alone Transplantation: Results of the US National Experience
J. Purvis, M. C. Mcleod, B. J. Orandi, D. E. Eckhoff, J. E. Locke, R. M. Cannon
Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Although simultaneous thoracic-abdominal transplants are undoubtedly complex, there is little data to compare the post-transplant survival between lung-liver transplant (LLT) and liver alone recipients.…
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Ten Year Results of a Single Center Study of Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Compared to Alemtuzumab Induction in Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation
V. Gurram, K. Gurung, G. Orlando, A. Farney, J. Rogers, C. Jay, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, A. Reeves-Daniel, A. Mena-Gutierrez, M. Gautreaux, R. Stratta
Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, NC
*Purpose: The study purpose was to analyze 10-year outcomes of depleting antibody induction agents in simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant (SPKT) at a single center*Methods: From 2/02…
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Use of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Assay to Monitor Treatment Response to Allograft Rejection in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients
J. Steggerda¹, H. Phan Pizzo², J. Garrison², X. Zhang³, M. Haas⁴, I. Kim¹, S. Jordan¹, D. Puliyanda²
¹Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA, ²Pediatric Nephrology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA, ³HLA Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai Med Center, West Hollywood, CA, ⁴Pathology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, West Hollywood, CA
*Purpose: Acute rejection (AR) accounts for 13%-21% of graft failure in pediatrics (peds), with the number, severity, and response to treatment being a major determinant…
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Human Antigen R (HuR): A New Regulator of Heme Oxygenase-1 Cytoprotection in Mouse and Human Liver Transplantation
K. J. Dery¹, K. Nakamura², K. Kadono¹, H. Hirao¹, S. Kageyama¹, T. Ito¹, H. Kojima¹, F. Kaldas¹, R. W. Busuttil¹, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Surgery, Nishi-Kobe Medical Center, Hyogo, Japan
*Purpose: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) represents a risk factor in liver transplantation (LT). We have shown that overexpression of heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) mitigates hepatic IRI…
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Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve Rat Islet Angiogenesis by Upregulating of ISL1 and VEGF-A
Y. Wang¹, J. Wang², X. Ding²
¹Department of Renal Transplantation, Nephropathy Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, ²Department of Renal Transplantation, Nephropathy Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
*Purpose: Islet transplantation is an important therapy to cure diabetes, but poor angiogenesis in the early stage of islet transplantation is one of the main…
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ABH Subtype-Specific Tolerance after ABO-Mismatched Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
B. Motyka¹, A. Halpin¹, J. Pearcey¹, A. Kariminia², A. Halevy², S. Maier¹, A. Halevy², P. Subrt², C. W. Cairo¹, G. D. Cuvelier³, K. R. Schultz², L. J. West¹
¹Alberta Transplant Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²British Columbia Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³CancerCare Manitoba, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
*Purpose: ABO-mediated immunity is reported to have minimal detrimental impact after ABO-mismatched hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Patients are generally presumed ‘tolerant’ with regard to ABO.…