2013 American Transplant Congress
Treatment of Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection after Kidney Transplantation: Does Rituximab and Intravenous Globulins Improve Graft Survival?
Background . Chronic antibody-mediated rejection (CAMR) is a major cause of renal graft loss and there is no evidence-based treatment. Patients and methods . All…2013 American Transplant Congress
Interactions of B and T Regulatory Cells in Normal Volunteers and in Tolerant HLA-Identical Kidney Transplant Recipients
Surgery; Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Purpose: In an HLA Identical (id) renal transplant (RT) tolerance trial using donor hematopoietic stem cells, alemtuzumab induction, and temporary maintenance immunosuppression (IS), primarily with…2013 American Transplant Congress
Bacteremic Sepsis in Transplantation: Can Antibiotic Duration Be Shortened by the Use of Sequential Procalcitonin and Endotoxin? A Prospective Cohort Study
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Introduction: Solid organ transplant patients with bacteremic sepsis are usually treated with antibiotics for 10-21 days. The evidence to support this length of therapy is…2013 American Transplant Congress
Technical Variant Liver Transplantation or Whole Liver Transplantation for Pediatric Patients? A Meta-Analysis
Organ Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Background: Pediatric liver transplantation has become the standard treatment for children suffering from end-stage liver disease. To overcome the shortage of appropriate-sized whole liver for…2013 American Transplant Congress
Multicenter Randomized Clinical Investigation for the Safety and Efficacy of Advagraf® (Extended-Release Tacrolimus) vs. Prograf® (Twice-Daily Tacrolimus) in De Novo Korean Adult Kidney Recipients
Introduction: Successful outcome in renal transplantation definitely depends on patient’s compliance with immunosuppressive medications. Compliance with complex immunosuppressive drugs might be improved with regimen that…2013 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Graft Survival Retrieved from Donors after Cardiac Death Have Been Significantly Improved in These Two Decades Although the Procurement Technique Remains Unchanged during the Three Decades
Introduction: Since 1979, 535 kidneys were retrieved from 270 DCD donors at our center, using in situ regional cooling technique. In this study, the posttransplant…2013 American Transplant Congress
Antithymocytes Globulines and Immune Senescence in Renal Transplant Patients
Background: CD4 T cell reconstitution after antithymocytes globulins (ATG) is dependent on pre-transplant thymic function and persistent ATG-induced CD4 T cell lymphopenia is associated with…2013 American Transplant Congress
Recurrence of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis after Renal Transplantation: Who Benefits from Preemptive Plasmapheresis?
BACKGROUND: Post-transplant recurrence of primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) has been attributed to a persistent circulating permeability factor. Prophylactic peri-operative plasmapheresis (PP) has been used…2013 American Transplant Congress
Advagraf Immunosuppression Initiation in Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipients: 3 Month-Interim Analysis of a French Multicenter Observational Study
from the OSIRIS Study Group, France
Introduction: Once daily formulation of tacrolimus (TAC-OD) has been proven to be comparable to twice daily formulation (TAC-BID) in terms of efficacy and safety for…2013 American Transplant Congress
Thymic Evidence of Clone Deletion in the Mixed Chimerism Mediated Allograft Tolerance
Introduction: We have achieved stable mixed chimerism (MC) and tolerance in mice hind-limb transplant model using a non-myeloabative conditioning regimen, and demonstrated that the deletion…
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