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  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    IL-1 Receptor Antagonist Treatment Rescues Impact of Brain Death Related Inflammation in Liver of Non-Human Primates

    L. Zitur, J. Danobeitia, J. Sperger, M. Hanson, E. Park, P. Chlebeck, L. Fernandez

    University of Wisconsin, Madison

    Donor liver quality is critical to avoid primary non-function or dysfunction after transplantation. Previously, our lab developed a model of Non-human Primate (NHP) Brain death…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    MFI TRAP: HLAmatchmaker Can Help To Do the Reactions Patterns of DSA Versus NDSA To Assess Risk of Graft Failure by AMR, THE

    C. von Glehn, L. Nascimento, B. Vieira, F. Contieri, C. Pozzi, M. Susin

    Transplant Immunology Laboratory, Cajuru Unuversity Hospital, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil; Kidney Transplant Departament, Evangelico University Hospital, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil; Kidney Transplant Departament, Sao Vicente Hospital, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

    The HLAMatchmaker (HLAMM) evaluates the compatibility between donor and recipient through comparisons within and between loci, and determines which epitopes in HLA mismatched are different…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Activated T Regulatory Cells Escape Death by Increasing Cytoplasmic Serine Protease Inhibitor 6 (SPI6)

    J. Azzi, M. Mounayar, C. Magee, R. Abdi

    Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston

    Regulatory T cells (Tregs) can employ a granzyme B (GrB)-dependent mechanism to mediate suppression of effector cells by inducing their apoptosis. Herein, we show that…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Glomerular microRNA Expression Profiles in Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy

    J. Wittig, C. Bockmeyer, P. Agustian, M. Dämmrich, S. Zell, P. Jindra, S. Immenschuh, J. Becker

    Hannover Medical School, Institute of Pathology, Hannover, Germany; Hannover Medical School, Clinic for Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover, Germany; Albany Medical College, Transplant Immunology Laboratory, Albany; Hannover Medical School, Institute for Transfusion Medicine

    Thrombotic microangiopathy is a serious complication of renal transplantation. Besides recurrence of the primary disease (RecTMA) renal transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (rTx-TMA) can emerge de novo…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Low GFR after Kidney Donation Is Not Chronic Kidney Disease

    L. de Vries, H. Tent, J. Sanders, S. Hofker, S. Bakker, G. Navis

    Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

    Introduction:Living kidney donors have become of great importance to kidney transplantation. Obviously, living kidney donation is only justified if long-term donor safety is guaranteed. Many…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Pregnancy Outcomes in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with a Switch from a Mycophenolic Acid Product to Azathioprine Prior to Conception

    N. Sifontis, L. Coscia, M. Lundgren, N. Dharbhamulla, S. Constantinescu, M. Moritz, C. McGrory, C. Ramirez, V. Armenti

    Pharmacy Practice, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Surgery, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA; National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry, Philadelphia

    The purpose of this study was to analyze pregnancy outcomes in female transplant recipients who switched their immunosuppressive regimen from a mycophenolic acid product (MPA)…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Twice Daily Telaprevir in Combination with Peginterferon Alfa-2a/Ribavirin in HCV Genotype 1 Liver Transplant Recipients: Interim Pharmacokinetics of the REFRESH Study

    H. Vargas, Y. Dai, K. Brown, M. Russo, E. Yoshida, R. Fontana, J. Levitsky, R. Rubin, V. Garg, R. Brown

    Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Cambridge, MA; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Columbia University, New York, NY

    Background: REFRESH is a 2-part Phase 2b, open-label clinical study assessing safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of telaprevir (T) in combination with peginterferon alfa-2a (P)…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Anti-IL6R Suppresses Primary IgM Response and CD5+ B-1a Cell Subset Stimulated by HLA.A2+ Skin Allografts

    G. Wu, N. Chai, I. Kim, A. Klein, S. Jordan

    Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

    Background Inhibition of IL-6/IL-6R signaling using anti-IL6R monoclonal antibody is effective in attenuating donor-specific antibody (DSA) responses to skin allografts in a mouse model. Here,…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Immune Suppressant Effect of Erythropoietin Alpha on Human Allo-Reactive T Cell Responses

    J. Manrique, P. Cravedi, P. Heeger, A. Mehrotra

    Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York

    Recent clinical studies showed that complete correction of anemia with erythropoietin (EPO) therapy improves human kidney transplant outcomes, but mechanisms underlying this protective effect are…
  • 2013 American Transplant Congress

    Defining pp65 Enemia and qPCR Cut-Offs for Pre-Emptive Therapy of CMV Disease in Low-Risk, Seropositive Renal Transplanted Recipients

    E. David-Neto, A. Lemos, L. Vilas Boas, A. Latif, F. Agena, F. Jota de Paula, L. Pierroti, F. Lemos, W. Nahas, H. Caiaffa Filho, C. Panutti

    Renal Transplant Service, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    CMV disease mostly invasive gastro-intestinal with low viremia occurs in approximately 16% of CMV seropositive renal transplant recipients not receiving Thymoglobuline (ATG). Pre-emptive therapy (PETh)…
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