2013 American Transplant Congress
Cost Effective Prevention of CMV Infection and Its Long-Term Consequence
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Introduction: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains a serious problem in D+/R- kidney transplant patients. Universal prophylaxis with valganciclovir (VGC) for 6 months has been advocated by…2013 American Transplant Congress
HLA Identical Renal Transplant Tolerance with Donor Hematopoietic Stem Cells Absent Chimerism: T and B Regulatory Cell and Genomic Analysis
Purpose: HLA identical sibling renal transplantation (HLA id RT) still requires continuous immunosuppression (IS) with long term complications. We conducted an HLA id RT tolerance…2013 American Transplant Congress
Mitigating Lung Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Miniature Swine
Lung ischemia-reperfusion injury (LIRI) is one of the leading causes of primary graft dysfunction, which limits graft survival in lung transplant recipients. To date, there…2013 American Transplant Congress
Likelihood of Improving or Maintaining Renal Function in Recipients of Extended-Criteria Donor Kidneys over Five Years with Belatacept or CsA (BENEFIT-EXT Long-Term Extension Study)
Introduction: The early renal function benefit observed in belatacept (bela)-treated recipients of extended-criteria donor (ECD) kidneys in BENEFIT-EXT was maintained over time, with a consistent…2013 American Transplant Congress
Associations of Estimated GFR and Urinary Protein Excretion with Mortality and Graft Failure Following Kidney Transplantation
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage, defined by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urinary protein excretion, predicts outcomes in native CKD, but the associations of…2013 American Transplant Congress
Cohort Study of Solid Organ Transplant Recipients Who Develop Malignancy: Risk of Subsequent Malignancy on mTOR vs. Non-mTOR Regimens, A
Organ transplant recipients (OTR) have a reported 3-4 fold increased incidence of malignancy as compared to the general population. Malignancy has been associated with the…2013 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability in Living Kidney Donors and Healthy Two-Kidney Controls
Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis; University of Maryland, Baltimore
There is a strong relationship between chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. The mechanisms underlying this association are not completely understood. One particular area of…2013 American Transplant Congress
Alemtuzumab Induction Results in Higher Rates of Leucopenia and Opportunistic Viral Infections in Renal Transplant Recipients
Medicine, Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Alemtuzumab (Alem) has been used as an induction agent in renal transplantation, frequently in regimens that minimize one of the other immunosuppressive agents. Purpose: To…2013 American Transplant Congress
Primary Cytomegalovirus Infection Has a Limited Effect on the Immunological Age of Kidney Transplant Recipients
Background Immunological ageing of the T cell compartment is related to a decreased T cell immunity. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in healthy individuals has been associated…2013 American Transplant Congress
Influence of Preoperative Anti-HLA Antibodies on Short-Term and Long-Term Graft Survival in Recipients with or without Rituximab Treatment
Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Background: The incidence of graft rejection has been remarkably reduced by immunosuppressive medications such as rituximab and immunological techniques such as the solid phase assay.…
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