2013 American Transplant Congress
Endothelial Proliferation Precedes the Development of Endothelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition (EndMT)
Endothelial cell (EC) proliferation is characteristic of cell-mediated immune responses and it occurs early in association with alloimmune targeting of transplants. In human renal allografts,…2013 American Transplant Congress
(Mis)use of Organs: Donation after Cardiac Death Donors Are Not Fulfilling the Mandate, The
Introduction: The discrepancy between organ availability and the demands of a growing waiting list has fuelled the need for ways to increase the organ supply.…2013 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Health Status and Quality of Life of Related Versus Paid Unrelated Living Kidney Donors: A Single Center Experience from Iran
In Iran, the unrelated living kidney donors (LKDs) are financially reimbursed by the government as well as the transplant recipients, a practice legal in the…2013 American Transplant Congress
Therapeutic Management and Outcome of the Novo Prostate Cancer in Renal Transplant Recipients
IntroductionRenal transplant recipients (RTR) are usually considered at higher risk of malignancy. In recent years, prostate cancer in RTR has been becoming more frequent, probably…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…
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