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Role of PI3K/AKT and Autophagy in the Protective Effect of Fasting Against Liver Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Mice, The
Background and aim: Preoperative fasting is known to attenuate liver ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI). However, the exact mechanism behind this protective effect is unknown. This…2013 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of the Chronic Kidney Disease-EPI Equation To Predict Outcomes in Lung Transplant Recipients
The purpose of this study is to compare two formulas for GFR estimation – the popular Modified Diet in Renal Disease, MDRD and the recently…2013 American Transplant Congress
In Vitro Characterization of Vertebral Bone Marrow Used for Immunomodulation in Hand Transplantation
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Purpose: Peri-operative cadaveric donor vertebral body bone marrow (VBBM) infusion has shown promising immunomodulatory effects (graft maintenance on low-dose tacrolimus monotherapy) in clinical trials of…2013 American Transplant Congress
Rates and Outcomes of Renal Transplantation in Children with Intellectual Disability
Background: Limited data exist on renal transplantation in children with intellectual disability (ID). In 2008, UNOS began collecting data on the cognitive and academic level…2013 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Liver Transplant (LT) Proteinuria Is Not an Absolute Indication for Simultaneous Liver Kidney Transplantation (SLK)
Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
LT candidates with proteinuria and renal dysfunction are often considered for SLK. Methods: 39 LT candidates with 24-hr urine protein >150 mg/dl and renal dysfunction…2013 American Transplant Congress
Regulatory Dendritic Cells (DCreg) Prolong Kidney Allograft Survival in Non-Human Primates When Combined with Costimulation Blockade and Rapamycin
Background: Regulatory immune cells are promising therapeutic agents to promote immunosuppressive drug minimization/withdrawal in organ transplantation. Dendritic cells (DC) are innate immune antigen (Ag)-presenting cells…2013 American Transplant Congress
Cause of Progression in Failing Kidney Transplants with Diseases Is Parenchymal Injury, Not Fibrosis, The
Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
We previously reported that human kidney transplants with early acute kidney injury (AKI) biopsied in the first six weeks express transcripts indicating injury-repair (IRRATs). Expression…2013 American Transplant Congress
Recipient Pre-Operative Regulatory T Cell Function: A Predictor of Acute Kidney Injury after Kidney Transplantation
Multi-Organ Transplant Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI), in both its most severe (delayed graft function, DGF) and milder (slow graft function, SGF) forms, increases the risk for…2013 American Transplant Congress
Loss of Pediatric Kidney Grafts during the "High-Risk Age Window": Insights from Liver Recipients
Background. Pediatric kidney recipients must traverse a high-risk age window of late adolescence and early adulthood during which there is an increased risk of graft…2013 American Transplant Congress
Use of the Flotrac System To Guide Donor Management Is Associated with Increased Organs Transplanted Per Donor, The
INTRODUCTION: There is a national shortage of organs available for transplantation and utilization rates for thoracic organs are less than 40%. The management of organ…
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