2013 American Transplant Congress
Increasing the Accuracy of Mycophenolic Acid Exposure Estimation in Heart Transplants Using 3 Predictive Tools
Purpose: Mycophenolic acid (MPA) area under the curve (AUC) has been reported as an important marker of graft outcome. Pharmacokinetic (PK) tools for the MPA…2013 American Transplant Congress
Shared Decision Making in Organ Transplantation
Background: Shared Decision Making (SDM) is a model of patient-provider communication stressing communication and joint participation in healthcare decisions to provide mutually agreed upon treatment.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Modification of Donor Tissue Antigens with Papain To Inhibit Transplant Rejection
Immunobiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical, Charlestown, MA
PURPOSE: The development of novel drugs to hinder transplant rejection is expensive, time consuming and inevitably exposes the subject to lifelong immunosuppression. In contrast, modifying…2013 American Transplant Congress
Dysfunctional High-Density Lipoprotein as a Novel Cardiovascular Risk Factor after Kidney Transplantation
Renal transplant recipients experience increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality largely unaffected by therapeutic measures such as statins: here we studied molecular composition and functionality of…2013 American Transplant Congress
Arterial Stiffness in Kidney Transplantation: Relationship with Dipper Status on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
Nephrology, Bellvitge Hospital, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
IntroductionCardiovascular complications in dialysis patients tend to decrease after kidney transplant, although they remain high when compared to general population. Dipper status on ambulatory blood…2013 American Transplant Congress
Do the Number and Titers of Donor Specific Antibodies Correlate to C4D Positivity and Clinical Outcomes?
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
AMR is a significant contributor of graft loss. Detection of DSA and C4D in Peri Tubular Capillaries (C4d+) has improved our understanding of AMR. It…2013 American Transplant Congress
Prognostic Value of SRTR Kidney Transplant Report Cards in the United States, The
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
IntroductionSRTR report cards provide the basis for quality assurance of US transplant centers. There is limited data evaluating the prognostic value of report cards, informing…2013 American Transplant Congress
Live-Time Imaging of Chemotactic Responses in Activated T Cells Demonstrate Novel Exploratory Patterns of Migration towards Chemokines
Our ability to study characteristic mechanisms and patterns of T cell subset migration during the rejection process is limited by the use of static assay…2013 American Transplant Congress
Association between CMV Infection and Subsequent BKV Infection after Kidney and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant – 4.5 Years of Experience in a Single Center, The
Introduction: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and BK virus (BKV) infection are serious infections after kidney and kidney/pancreas transplant. The association between these two viral infections has…2013 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in Prisoners: Perspectives of Transplant Centers in the United States
The 8th Amendment requires that prisoners be provided a system of access to medical care. The number of inmates with ESRD is rising and the…
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