2013 American Transplant Congress
CD4+ T Cell Differentiation and Belatacept Resistant Rejection
Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Purpose: T cells with a memory phenotype mediate costimulation blockade (CoB) resistant rejection (RR), and early CoBRR has been seen in patients on belatacept-based immunosuppression.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of SPK Transplant in Type I and Type II Diabetics with End Stage Renal Disease: The 20 Year Experience, The
Surgery, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
Introduction: There continues to be much debate whether Type II diabetics can benefit from a SPK. We are reporting our 20 years experience in patients…2013 American Transplant Congress
Worse Long Term Patient Survival and Higher Cancer Rates in Liver Transplant Recipients with a History of Smoking
Transplant Division, Dept of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
IntroductionTobacco use is associated with multiple medical problems including an increased risk of cancer (CA). The risk of CA is increased in the post-transplant period.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Burden of OPTN Data Submission: Far More Than Estimated
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; University of California, Davis, Sacromento, CA
Background: The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) holds an exclusive federal contract as the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to allocate deceased donor…2013 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors Associated with Surgical Complications in Recipients of Kidneys from Very Small Pediatric Donors
UC Davis Transplant Center, Sacramento, CA
Transplantation of kidneys from very small pediatric donors is associated with a high rate of surgical complications and graft loss. We examined our series of…2013 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplant Program Quality Index Which Accounts for Transplant Rate; the Power of Numbers!, A
Surgery/Transplantation, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
It is unclear whether patients and grafts survival (PS and GS) rates alone are indices of Quality. Programs who cherry pick could have outstanding PS/GS…2013 American Transplant Congress
Targeting of mTORC2 in DC Elicits an Enhanced Pro-Inflammatory Profile and Th17 Alloresponse
Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is an important, yet poorly understood integrative kinase that regulates immune cell function. mTOR functions in two independent complexes,- mTOR…2013 American Transplant Congress
Pronounced Impact of Community Risk Factors on Pre-Transplant Kidney Candidate Processes and Outcomes
IntroductionThere are many potential factors which are associated with patient outcomes beyond traditional clinical and donor characteristics.MethodsWe merged national SRTR data with data aggregated from…2013 American Transplant Congress
Fish Oil Diet Overcomes Genetic Predisposition Restoring Hepatocyte Proliferation in Livers of A20 Heterozygous Mice Following Partial Hepatectomy
Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - HMS, Boston, MA
Increased free fatty acids (FA) metabolism following partial hepatectomy (PH) is required to meet energy demands of liver regeneration (LR). Impact of dietary lipid intake…2013 American Transplant Congress
French Uncontrolled Donors after Circulatory Arrest (Udcd) Program for Kidney Transplantation: Procurement Procedure Efficiency and 3-Month Survival Results
The national protocol for the uDCD program restricts the no flow period to <30 min and the total warm ischemia time (WIT) to <150 min.…
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