2013 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for High MELD Score Patients
Background: Liver transplantation is the only effective treatment for the very sick liver failure patients. For the success of liver transplantation, it is better to…2013 American Transplant Congress
Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcomes of BK Viremia and Nephropathy Following Kidney, Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas or Pancreas after Kidney Transplant
University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI
We examined the incidence and risk factors for BK viremia and nephropathy (BKV and BKN) and their impact on graft survival in kidney, simultaneous kidney-pancreas…2013 American Transplant Congress
Mice, Men and Math: Finding Novel Drugs for Organ Transplantation
To ensure long term allograft function and reduce non-tolerable side effects, novel immunosuppressive drugs are needed in Transplantation. In a novel bioinformatics driven drug discovery…2013 American Transplant Congress
High Creatinine and Advanced Chronic Rejection (CR) Predicts Graft Loss in Non Adherent Kidney Transplant Recipients
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
The risk factors for graft loss in kidney transplant recipients (KTR) with non-adherence (NA) to immunosupression who present with rejection are not known.We analyzed 208…2013 American Transplant Congress
Acute Rejection in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
BACKGROUND: Age limits for transplantation have expanded significantly in the last 20 years, with a 5-fold increase in the number of older adults receiving kidney…2013 American Transplant Congress
Th17 Memory Cells Are More Dependent on Coinhibition by CTLA-4 Than Th1 Memory Cells and Are Associated with Rejection in Patients Treated with Belatacept
Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA
T cell memory is comprised of an assortment of phenotypic lineages suited for microbial immunity that may cross-react with allogeneic antigens to drive pathological immune…2013 American Transplant Congress
Proposed Surveillance Strategy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence after Liver Transplantation, A
Liver transplantation (LT) is indicated in cirrhotic patients with early, unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Post-transplant HCC recurrence, although uncommon, remains a serious problem. There are…2013 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplants from DCD Donors Declined by the Primary Regional Centre
Department of Surgery, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Introduction: The recent expansion in donation after circulatory death (DCD) kidney transplantation within the UK has raised questions regarding donor suitability, particularly relating to the…2013 American Transplant Congress
Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Obese Renal Transplant Candidates
Dialysis is associated with high mortality, and obesity often precludes transplantation. Weight loss prior to transplantation may reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with transplantation.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Comprehensive Analyses of Inhibitory Effects of the mTOR Inhibitor Everolimus on the Differentiation into Subsets of Human T-Helper Cells and B Cells
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
[Aim] Although the various potential benefits of everolimus over other immunosuppressants in organ transplantation have been described, the precise sensitivity of this drug to differentiation…
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