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  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Conversion to Sirolimus to Prevent Recurrent Cytomegalovirus Infection/Disease: A Prospective and Randomized Trial

    L. Almeida Viana, M. Pontello Cristelli, G. Basso, D. Wagner Castro Lima Santos, M. Taver Costa Dantas, Y. Cardoso Dreige, L. Damasceno, M. Rika Nakamura, H. Tedesco-Silva, J. Medina-Pestana

    Hospital do Rim - UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

    *Purpose: Recurrent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection occurs in 30-35% of kidney transplant recipients after completion of treatment and/or preemptive therapy. There is no consensus on the…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Measuring and Monitoring Equity in Access to Deceased Donor Lung Transplants among Lung Registrations

    R. R. Goff1, E. D. Lease2, S. Sweet3, A. Robinson1, D. Stewart1

    1Research, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, 2University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 3St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO

    *Purpose: In 2018, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) published a methodology to measure equity in access to deceased donor kidney transplantation that has…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Dual and Opposite Costimulatory Targeting with a Novel Hybrid Protein Effectively Prevents Renal Warm Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in a Rat Bilateral Kidney Model

    J. Guiteras1, L. De Ramon1, E. Crespo1, N. Bolaños1, P. Fontova1, M. Jarque1, A. Torija1, O. Bestard2, J. Grinyó2, J. Torras2

    1Experimental Nephrology, IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, 2Bellvitge University Hospital, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

    *Purpose: Many studies showed the CTLA4 effectiveness in the inhibition of CD28-CD80/86 costimulatory pathway in transplant and autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, the PD1-PDL1/2 interaction has been…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Immune Checkpoint PD-L1 Pathway as an Effective Platform for Localized Immunomodulation to Attain Indefinite Allogeneic Islet Graft Survival

    L. Batra1, P. Shrestha1, H. Zhao1, K. B. Woodward1, M. Tan1, O. G. Nuno1, A. Togay1, M. M. Coronel2, A. J. Garcia2, H. Shirwan1, E. S. Yolcu1

    1Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

    *Purpose: Allogenic islet transplantation is an effective therapeutic approach for the treatment of T1D. However, chronic immunosuppression to control rejection is a major limitation. The…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Benefits of Transplantation Over Chronic Dialysis in Septugenerian ESRD Patients with Diabetes

    S. Karhadkar, A. Shaik, A. Di Carlo

    Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: In 2016, nearly 125,000 adults in the United States began treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (i.e., kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplantation). Of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Migration of Passenger Leukocytes During Ex Vivo Warm Perfusion

    L. Brasile1, B. Stubenitsky2

    1Research and Development, BREONICS Inc., Watervliet, NY, 2Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, Netherlands

    *Purpose: Organ transplantation is a unique immunologic situation in which donor and recipient antigen presenting cells (APCs) are present upon reperfusion. Passenger leukocytes (PL) are…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Opioid Use Prior to Liver Transplant is Associated with Increased Risk of Death after Transplant

    H. J. Braun, M. P. Schwab, C. Jin, D. Amara, T. Grace, R. Croci, C. E. Freise, J. P. Roberts, R. Hirose, N. L. Ascher

    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: The impact of the opioid epidemic on liver transplant (LT) candidates and recipients has not been widely studied, but pre-LT opioid use in LT…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Role of Peptide Antigen, Antigen-Presenting Cells and CD4 T Cells in Modulating BK Polyomavirus (BKPyV)-Specific CD8 T Cell Responses In Vitro

    M. Wilhelm, A. Kaur, M. Wernli, H. H. Hirsch

    Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    *Purpose: BKPyV persists as significant cause of premature kidney transplant failure. Current treatment is based on reducing immunosuppression to regain immune control over BKPyV replication…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    New and Unknown: VCA Acceptability to the General Public

    L. A. Siminoff, D. B. Sarwer, G. P. Alolod, E. Davis, H. McGregor, H. M. Gardiner

    Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Despite the promise of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) as a viable alternative to available reconstructive procedures or prosthetics, its future relies heavily on families’…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Renal Allograft Surveillance with Allospecific T-cytotoxic Memory Cells Which Express CD154

    V. Rohan, A. Alqassieh, N. Patel, K. Soliman, V. Rao

    Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: Allo-antigen-specific T-cytotoxic memory cells (TcM) which express CD40 ligand (CD154) in overnight lymphocyte co-culture are strongly associated with acute cellular rejection (ACR) seen in…
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