2013 American Transplant Congress
Diabetes Significantly Impacts Quality of Life Following Kidney Transplant
Dept of Pharmacy Services, MUSC, Charleston, SC; Dept of Transplant Surgery, MUSC, Charleston, SC
Purpose: Kidney transplant (KTx) has the potential to substantially improve quality of life (QOL) through improvements in performance status and life expectancy. Few studies have…2013 American Transplant Congress
North American Results from the Multicenter Randomized Trial of Everolimus vs Mycophenolate Mofetil in Heart Transplantation
Purpose: 24-month (M) results of a randomized, open-label, multinational study (A2310) comparing efficacy and safety of everolimus (EVR) and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) in de novo…2013 American Transplant Congress
Most Late Kidney Graft Failures after Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplant (SPK) Are Due to Non-Immunological Graft Injury
Background: Late allograft failure is one of the critical issues in renal transplantation today. The relative importance of immunological versus non-immunological causes of chronic kidney…2013 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Hepatitis C Recurrence in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients Receiving Antibody Induction Versus No Antibody Induction
Purpose: Compare the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) recurrence in orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) recipients receiving induction to subjects that were transplanted without induction…2013 American Transplant Congress
Endodermal Precursor Cells Derived from Embryonic Stem Cells Can Engraft in Mouse Liver
Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Purpose: Embryonic stem (ES) cells have been shown to have great value therapeutically due to their limitless capacity for self-renewal and proliferation, and their ability…2013 American Transplant Congress
Development of De Novo Anti-HLA Antibodies after Treatment with/without Rituximab, a B Cell−Depleting Treatment
Urology, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Background: Organ shortages have forced a widening of the indications for kidney donors. In Japan, ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation (ABOi) is a popular alternative to deceased…2013 American Transplant Congress
Monoclonal Antibody Which Possibly May Replace the Therapeutic Intravenous Immunoglobulin, A
HLA Antibodies, Terasaki Foundation Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
The value of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) in lowering HLA antibodies (Abs) has recently come into question. High variability in different therapeutic preparations may account for…2013 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection in Female Kidney Transplant Recipients
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, DF, Mexico
Introduction: Kidney transplant recipients are at higher risk for viral infection-related cancers. Even though HPV infection is strongly associated with several genital cancers, data on…2013 American Transplant Congress
Tacrolimus Concentration Variability Is Associated with Delayed Graft Function and Diminished Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Pharmacy, MUSC, Charleston, SC; Surgery, MUSC, Charleston, SC
Background: Tacrolimus (FK) is the drug of choice for preventing acute allograft rejection in kidney transplantation. However, therapeutic drug monitoring is necessary due to FK’s…2013 American Transplant Congress
Pretransplant CD8+CD28-NKG2D+ Memory T Cells and Third Party Cellular Alloreactivity as a Predictor of Posttransplant Acute Cellular Rejection
Background: Cellular alloreactivity is prevalent in patients prior to transplantation. A previous retrospective study showed that high cellular alloreactivity to a panel of third party…
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