2013 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Outcomes of Paired Kidney Exchange for Highly Sensitized Renal Transplant Recipients
Purpose: A local multicenter paired kidney exchange (PKE) was employed to facilitate identification of compatible donors for highly-sensitized recipients.Methods: Virtual crossmatching was used to identify…2013 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Donor Comorbidites on Patient Survival – Standard Criteria Donor Kidney Compared to Expanded Criteria Donor Kidney Transplantation
The Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Most studies of Expanded Criteria Donor (ECD) kidney (K) transplantation confirm that recipients(R) of ECD K have improved survival compared with matched dialysis-treated patients. However,…2013 American Transplant Congress
Is the Obesity Epidemic in the United States Driving the Lack of Growth of Live Kidney Donation?
Division of Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Introduction: The prevalence of obesity in the United States has increased significantly over the last twenty years and nearly one-third of adults are obese. The…2013 American Transplant Congress
Donor Brain Death Results in Differentially Modulated Immune Activation in Solid Organs
Donor brain death (BD) and its pathophysiological changes have been shown to influence graft quality, therefore accelerating the immune response post transplantation. However, detailed information…2013 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Clostridium Difficile Infection in Liver Transplant Recipients: A 10 Year Single-Center Cohort Study
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Background: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a common cause of morbidity and is associated with increased in-hospital mortality among solid organ transplant recipients. The incidence…2013 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged Cold Ischemia Impairs Outcome in Recipients of Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Kidney Transplants Despite Machine Perfusion
Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami
Introduction: The impact of prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT) on kidney grafts donated after circulatory death (DCD) remains unclear when grafts were preserved by hypothermic…2013 American Transplant Congress
Challenges in Safety Managing the Pain in Living Liver Donors
BACKGROUND: Living Liver Donation (LD) is a highly complex major surgical procedure associated with pain. However, managing pain after LD is difficult, as opioid pharmacokinetics…2013 American Transplant Congress
Esophageal Eosinophilia after Intestinal Transplantation
Transplantation, MedStar Gerogetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Background: The prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) has been increasing, with estimates up to 0.1% of children. We examined esophageal eosinophilia in children after intestinal…2013 American Transplant Congress
Human Regulatory B Cells (BRegs) Are Characterised by Both IL-10 and TNF-α Expression and Are Reduced in Numbers with Altered Function in Renal Transplant Recipients with Immunological Graft Injury
St.James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom; UCL, London, United Kingdom; UPMC, Pittsburgh
Human Bregs are defined by their ability to express IL-10 and suppress T cells in vitro. We noted that putative Breg subsets also produce pro-inflammatory…2013 American Transplant Congress
Anti-CD3 Accelerated Diabetes in Transgenic Non-Obese Diabetic (NOD) Mice Expressing miRNA Decoy Sequence(s)
Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo; Surgery, SUNY, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Microinhibitory RNAs (miRNAs) are short sequences that regulate post-transcriptional mRNA and protein expression. miRNA decoy genes alter gene expression by interfering with miRNA binding to…
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