2013 American Transplant Congress
C4d as a Good Marker of Acute Humoral Rejection in Small Bowel Transplantation
Background. Diagnosis criteria for acute humoral rejection are well established in kidney and heart transplantation, while no consensus exists for small bowel (SB) transplantation rejection.Methods.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Acute Rejection in Heart Transplanted Recipients
Department of Medicine, Devision of Nephrology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Purpose: Heart transplantation is the standard treatment for patients with end-stage heart disease. In this study we tried to determine factors associated with rejection in…2013 American Transplant Congress
Systems Analysis of Innate Activation Reveals IL-1 Family Members as Key Modulators of Alloreactive T Cells Susceptibility to Regulation and Novel Targets for Therapeutic Intervention
Rational regulation of alloreactive T cells (alloT) responses is the ideal goal of tolerance promoting therapies. However, our understanding of the factors and mechanisms that…2013 American Transplant Congress
Aggregate Impacts of the CMS CoP on Patient and Donor Characteristics
Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA; Emory Transplant Center, Emory, Atlanta, GA
Background: SRTR program reports provide detailed information on transplant center performance relative to risk-adjusted expected values. These measures are utilized by the Centers for Medicare…2013 American Transplant Congress
Boceprevir (BOC) Based Triple Therapy (TTx) for Hepatitis C Recurrence after Liver Transplantation: Six Month Results
Yale New Haven Transplantation Center, New Haven
Background: Experience with treatment for HCV recurrence in liver transplant recipients (LTRs) using pegylated interferon, ribavirin (PR) and protease inhibitors (PIs) is limited.Methods: Adult genotype…2013 American Transplant Congress
Marked Increase in Pre-Existing Morbidity among Living Kidney Donors in the United States
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
IntroductionResearch suggests long-term health of living kidney donors is comparable to the general population. However, there are limited comprehensive studies of morbidity among this population…2013 American Transplant Congress
Late Versus Early Biliary Complications after Liver Transplantation
Baylor Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, Dallas
IntroductionBiliary complications (BC) cause major morbidity and mortality after liver transplantation (LT). Literature is replete with articles on early BC (less than 1 year post…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…
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