2013 American Transplant Congress
Novel Diagnostic Serum Protein Panels for Transplant Injury Monitoring
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Background: Kidney transplantation is the best treatment option for end stage kidney failure. However, long term management for a prolonged life of these transplanted organs…2013 American Transplant Congress
Antithymocyte Globulin Induction Is Associated with Improved Graft Survival and Reduced Ischemic Cholangiopathy after DCD Liver Transplantation as Compared to Basiliximab
Utilization of donation after cardiac death (DCD) hepatic allografts is limited by ischemia related biliary complications and graft loss. This report updates the originial UW…2013 American Transplant Congress
Use of a Novel Protocol to Successfully Characterize and Treat Immune-Mediated Acute Hepatitis and Liver Failure in Children
Stanford University, Palo Alto
Introduction: Routine evaluation fails to identify a cause for acute liver failure in 50% of children. In a case series of 4 pediatric patients, a…2013 American Transplant Congress
Is KDPI Accurate in Predicting Outcomes Associated with Utilization of Single Pediatric Donor Kidneys?
Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Background The Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) is an excellent tool to provide the clinician with a more comprehensive and continuous estimate of donor quality.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of Deceased Donor Transplantation with High-KDPI Kidneys
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
The Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) was recently introduced as a metric for quality of DD kidneys. The survival benefit of transplantation with high-KDPI kidneys…2013 American Transplant Congress
Comparing Outcomes from Pancreata from Donation after Circulatory Death to Donation after Brain Death in a Small Rural Program
Background: Providing access to pancreas transplant in a rural center with an aging population and low crime rate can be challenging. However, the patients served…2013 American Transplant Congress
Features of Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR) in Early and Late Protocol and Indication Renal Allograft Biopsies
Depts of Medicine, ; Pathology, ; Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
The prevalence of serologic and histologic features of AMR in early and late biopsies and in association with graft fuction has not been well-recognized. We…2013 American Transplant Congress
Interpreting Macrophage Transcripts in T Cell-Mediated Rejection in Humans
The recently published model for T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR) of kidney allografts proposes that the major unit of cognate recognition in TCMR is effector T…2013 American Transplant Congress
Reduced Health Literacy in Kidney Transplant Recipients May Be Associated with Difficulty Identifying a Live Kidney Donor
Introduction: Health literacy (HL) may be a mediator for known socioeconomic (SES) and racial disparities in live kidney donation and provide a target for interventions…2013 American Transplant Congress
Differing Characteristics of New-Onset Diabetes after Transplantation (NODAT) in African-American Compared to Non-African-American Kidney Recipients
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background: NODAT, a common 1st post-transplant year complication, is more prevalent in African-American recipients (AA). Risk factors for, and the clinical course of NODAT are…
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