2013 American Transplant Congress
Improving Value after Pediatric Liver Transplant: Discharge Practices of High-Performing Centers
We sought to improve value (outcomes/cost) for the initial hospitalization after pediatric liver transplantation (LT) by identifying variation in length of stay (LOS), a highly…2013 American Transplant Congress
Obesity Does Not Adversely Affect the Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation
Obese patients with end stage kidney disease encounter difficulties obtaining kidney transplantation (KTx) because of concern for shorter graft and patient survival. We examined the…2013 American Transplant Congress
Combined Induction Therapy with Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin (rATG) and Rituximab (RTX) in Highly Sensitized Kidney Recipients: Long-Term Outcomes
Surgery, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Despite the use of T cell depleting induction therapy, the incidence of acute humoral (AMR) and cellular (ACR) rejection remains high and the graft survival…2013 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit of a Third Kidney Transplant, The
Department of Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background: The size of the kidney wait list as well as the waiting time is increasing in the US. Given the current shortage of renal…2013 American Transplant Congress
Factors Associated with Physical and Mental Quality of Life in Kidney Transplant Recipients Currently ≥ 50 Years Old
Background:Kidney transplantation is becoming more common in older patients. Quality of life (QOL) in these patients who are usually burdened with many comorbid conditions has…2013 American Transplant Congress
Ischemia-Induced ATF6 Upregulation Is a Key Factor in Liver Pro-Inflammatory Immune Response Against Ischemia Reperfusion
Background and Aim: We have shown previously that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress may function in synergy with TLR4 in liver IRI to facilitate pro-inflammatory immune…2013 American Transplant Congress
Creatinine as a Marker of Rejection Reversal in Recipients with Post-Treatment Biopsies
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
It is debatable whether creatinine can serve as a surrogate marker of rejection reversal. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the change…2013 American Transplant Congress
LineageProfiler: A Novel Informatics Tool for Unraveling Transplant Injury
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco; University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Background: A significant challenge in the field of allograft transplantation is the efficient evaluation of tissue-specific immune responses and infiltrating immune cell types.Method: We have…2013 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) Using Various Perfusates on the Hepatocellular and Biliary Epithelial Integrity in Porcine Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Models, The
Transplant, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; Case Western Reserve, Cleveland
Introduction: NMP with sanguineous perfusate was reported to be effective in mitigating IRI of DCD livers. The roles of white blood cells, platelets, and inflammatory…2013 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Dialysis after Heart Transplantation: The Short and Long Term Outcomes
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
BACKGROUND: In heart transplantation, acute renal failure is not uncommon immediately after heart transplantation. It may be due to pre-existing disease or due to the…
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