Am J Transplant, Volume 22, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 116 of 190 - ATC Abstracts

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Circulating and Intragraft Donor (HLA)-Specific B Cells Drive Allograft Rejection After Kidney Transplantation
A. Torija¹, N. Bolaños¹, L. Donadeu¹, M. Meneghini², I. Torres², A. Gabaldon², M. Gomà³, E. Crespo¹, F. Moreso⁴, O. Bestard²
¹Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain, ²Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ³Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Vall d'Heron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Besides donor-specific antibodies (DSA), circulating donor(HLA)-specific memory B cells (mBc) have also shown to play a deleterious role driving antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) in kidney…
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Regulatory T Cells Suppress Memory IFN-Gamma Production in Highly Sensitised Patients
C. Dudreuilh¹, S. Basu¹, O. Shaw², H. Burton¹, C. Domingo-Vila¹, T. Tree¹, G. Lombardi¹, C. Scotta¹, A. Dorling¹
¹King's College London, London, United Kingdom, ²Viapath Clinical Transplantation Laboratory, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Highly sensitized patients (HS) present worse long-term outcome after transplantation compared to those without donor-specific antibodies (DSA). It has been suggested that desensitisation using…
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Local Intragraft Humoral Immune Response in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction
E. Miyamoto¹, S. C. Juvet², D. Vosoughi², J. Wang², J. Al-Refaee², T. Daigneault², A. Duong², S. Moshkelgosha², S. Keshavjee², K. Tinckam², A. Chruscinski³, D. Hwang⁴, T. Martinu²
¹Tenri Hospital Japan, University Health Network Canada, Nara, Japan, ²University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Multi-Organ Transplantation, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Donor HLA-specific antibody (DSA) and antibody against self-antigens (self-antigen antibody) can cause injury and lead to chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) after lung transplantation…
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Cognitive Impairment In Liver Transplant Recipients 6 Months Or More After Transplant
K. Berry¹, L. Gaynor¹, F. Barry¹, E. Tsoy¹, C. Goode¹, R. Wong¹, S. Erlhoff¹, L. VandeVrede¹, K. Possin¹, J. C. Lai²
¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Patients with decompensated cirrhosis awaiting liver transplant (LT) exhibit a spectrum of neurocognitive disorders, largely attributed to hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and considered reversible after…
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Ixazomib for Desensitization (IXADES): Results of a Phase II Clinical Trial
N. Wilson¹, S. R. Reese², L. Ptak³, F. Aziz², S. Parajuli², V. Jucaud⁴, S. Denham⁴, A. Mishra⁵, P. Hematti⁵, A. Djamali²
¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ³Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ⁴Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
*Purpose: Ixazomib is a second-generation oral proteasome inhibitor, FDA approved for the treatment of refractory multiple myeloma. The purpose of the study was (1) to…
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Internal Validation of a Pre-Transplant Biomarker Panel to Predict Post-Transplant Mortality: The Liver Immune Frailty Index
G. G. Panayotova¹, D. T. Nguyen², E. A. Graviss², L. J. Minze², S. Simonishvili¹, Y. Qin¹, T. Ayorinde¹, G. Prakash¹, F. Paterno¹, L. Brown¹, A. Amin¹, X. C. Li², R. M. Ghobrial², J. V. Guarrera¹, K. E. Lunsford¹
¹Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Infection and sepsis are the greatest contributors to early post-liver transplant (LT) mortality. These often result from ongoing immune dysfunction, or “Immune Frailty”. We…
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Immune Cell Phenotype of Acute Rejection of Pancreas Allografts by RNA Sequencing Analysis
C. Hughes, H. Yang, C. Snopkowski, C. Li, D. M. Dadhania, S. Sultan, C. Hartono, M. Suthanthiran, S. V. Seshan, T. Muthukumar
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Long term survival of pancreas allografts are inferior to kidney allografts. Molecular mechanisms underpinning pancreas allograft rejection and failure have not been explored in…
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Seeing is Believing: Efficacy of a Video-Based Intervention in Improving Skin Cancer Risk Awareness and Preventative Strategies Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
R. Saranath, J. Gomez, E. Shah, S. Michalak, R. Haughton, B. Fernandez, I. Ahronowitz
USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Despite improvement in their overall life expectancy, solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) remain at elevated risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancers. Moreover, patients of…
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Clinical Validation of Automated Urinary Chemokine Assays for Non-Invasive Detection of Kidney Transplant Rejection: A Large Prospective Cohort Study
E. Van Loon¹, C. Tinel¹, J. Callemeyn¹, M. Coemans¹, A. Van Craenenbroeck¹, T. Vaulet², D. Anglicheau³, M. Naesens¹
¹Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²ESAT STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ³Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
*Purpose: Non-invasive diagnostic markers for kidney transplant rejection can provide useful information but often do not reach the clinical implementation stage. The chemokines CXCL9 and…
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Lymphotoxin Beta Receptor Classical NFkB Signaling in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Drives Treg Tissue Stability
V. Saxena¹, W. Piao¹, L. Li¹, M. W. Shirkey¹, R. Lakhan¹, S. Walden², K. L. Hippen², B. Blazar², J. S. Bromberg¹
¹University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Regulatory T cell (Treg) suppressor function and allograft protection depend on maintenance of transcription factor Foxp3 expression and lymphatic migration, respectively. Treg lymphotoxin (LT)…