Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 96 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

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Impact of Dialysis and Diabetes on Survival in Recipients of Combined Heart-Kidney Transplant
J. Parekh¹, H. Chau², G. Schnickel², J. Berumen², K. Mekeel²
¹University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ²Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
*Purpose: Mounting data shows a survival benefit of combined heart-kidney transplantation in patients with heart and renal failure. However, little has been done to understand…
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Donor-Recipient Genetic Relationship and Outcomes of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT): Does it Really Matter?
A. M. Elsabbagh¹, A. Mohamed¹, E. M. Elsabbagh², A. Al-Kurd¹, T. Ivanics¹, E. Ulrich¹, T. Kitajima¹, M. Rizzari¹, K. Collins¹, A. Yoshida¹, M. Abouljoud¹, S. Nagai¹
¹Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ²University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The impact of donor-recipient genetic relationship on LDLT outcomes has been raised by some recent reports. We sought to study this over a large…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Pretransplant BKV-IgG Serostatus and BKV-Specific ELISPOT Assays for the Prediction of BKV Infection
H. Bae¹, J. Jang¹, H. Lee², S. Yun¹, E. Oh³
¹Department of Biomedical Science, Graduate School, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 137-040, Korea, Republic of, ²Department of Laboratory Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University of Korea, Incheon, Korea, Republic of, ³Department of Laboratory Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 137-040, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: BK Polyomavirus (BK) can lead to major infectious complications and damage to the graft in kidney transplantation (KT). We investigated whether pretransplant BK serostatus…