2013 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of Sexual Functions in Females Receiving Renal Replacement Therapies
Introduction & objectives:We aimed to determine the factors affecting changes in sexual function by comparing the sexual functions of a female kidney transplant recipient (KTR)…2013 American Transplant Congress
Psychosocial Outcomes 3 to 9 Years after Living Liver Donation in the Adult to Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL)
U. of Pittsburgh; Northwestern U; Lahey Clinic
Background: Psychosocial outcomes data come primarily from the first few years post liver donation and are based largely on generic quality of life measures that…2013 American Transplant Congress
Prior Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant (SPK) Recipients with a Functioning Pancreas Allograft Have Improved Patient and Graft Survival after Kidney Retransplantation
Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Background: Many prior SPK patients present for a second kidney allograft. Prior studies have addressed the technical challenges to re-transplantation in this population, but there…2013 American Transplant Congress
Results of a Behavioral Contract Intervention To Improve Adherence and Healthcare Outcomes among Renal Transplant Recipients
PURPOSE: To report the results of a 12-month randomized controlled trial of an intervention using behavioral contracts to improve immunosuppressant therpy (IST) adherence and associated…2013 American Transplant Congress
Steroid Avoidance in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients: 5-Year Results of a Prospective and Randomized Multicenter Study
Institut de Transplantation-Urologie-Néphrologie (ITUN), Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France
Introduction. We report here the actual 5-year results of a prospective and randomized steroid avoidance study conducted in 6 university hospitals in adult patients receiving…2013 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Anastomosis Time and Its Effect on Delayed Graft Function and Early Outcomes in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
Urology, Nephrology, Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Objective: Most studies have focused on the impact of factors such as donor age, gender and cold ischemic time on subsequent graft function and graft…2013 American Transplant Congress
Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Contributes to Cardiac Allograft Rejection and Vasculopathy
The chronic allograft rejection, i.e. transplant vasculopathy (TV), is a major limiting factor in the long-term success of cardiac transplantation. In the present study, we…2013 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation Tolerance That Depends on Regulatory T Cells Induced by TGF-beta-Producing Regulatory B Cells
Regulatory B cells (Bregs) have been shown to play a critical role in immune homeostasis and in autoimmunity models. We have recently demonstrated that combined…2013 American Transplant Congress
Does Ex-Situ Atraumatic Retrograde Hepatic Artery Perfusion in Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation Reduce the Incidence of Anastomotic Biliary Strictures?
Background. Using left living donor grafts, the local ischemia of the left bile duct stump has been suspected to play a crucial role in post-transplant…2013 American Transplant Congress
Kidney-Induced Cardiac Allograft Tolerance across a Full MHC-Barrier in Miniature Swine
We have previously demonstrated that a kidney allograft has the ability to confer tolerance on a co-transplanted heart allograft procured from a class I-mismatched donor.…
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