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  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Association of Transplant Volume and Survival in Pediatric Kidney Transplants

    W. Cherikh,1 A. Wilk,1 C. Flavin,1 E. Brewer.2

    1United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; 2Baylor Coll Med & Texas Children's Hosp., Houston, TX.

    Background. Center specific volume has been shown to correlate with outcomes for many procedures in the adult population. The current analysis was conducted to determine…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Successful Consolidation of Two Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Programs

    D. Morgan, A. Tietjen, S. Mulgoankar.

    Renal & Pancreas Transplant, Barnabas Health, Livingston.

    The decision to consolidate two kidney/pancreas transplant programs within the same healthcare system and within a 10 mile radius, was a pro-active approach in an…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Correlation Between Donor Specific Antibodies and Heart Transplant Rejection

    R. Bedard,1 P. Jindra,2 M. Manson,1 M. Moaddab,1 H. Mallidi,3 W. Etheridge,1 A. Civitello,3 R. Kerman.2

    1CHI St. Luke's Health - Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX; 2Immune Evaluation Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 3Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

    The presence of donor specific HLA antibodies (DSA) has been shown to be detrimental to heart transplant (HTx) survival. Virtual crossmatching (VXM) offers a rapid…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Role of Antiviral Prophylaxis for the Prevention of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Associated Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease (PTLD) in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review

    M. AlDabbagh,1,2 M. Gitman,3 D. Kumar, A. Humar, C. Rotstein, S. Husain.1,3

    1Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, On, Canada; 2Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 3Multi-Organ Transplant Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Background The role of antiviral prophylaxis in EBV seronegative solid organ transplant recipients receiving organs from seropositive donors for prevention of PTLD remains controversial. We…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Pre-Trasplant Perfusion With Mesenchymal Stromal Cells of Renal Graft Prevents Ischemia Injury Upregulating Gene Involved in Energy Saving

    V. Corradetti,1 S. Milanesi,1 E. Pattonieri,1 C. Rocca,1 T. Valsania,1 M. Gregorini,1 L. De Cecco,2 I. Benzoni,3 C. Bianco,3 M. Avanzini,4 M. Maestri,3 P. Esposito,1 T. Rampino,1 A. Dal Canton.

    1Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo And University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; 2Department of Experimental Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori, Milano, Italy; 3Unit of General Surgery, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo And University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; 4Cell Factory Pediatric Oncohaematology, IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.

    Background. Kidney ischemia from Donation after Circulatory Death shifts cells to anaerobic metabolism. Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) have immunomodulatory properties that are mediated by soluble…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Pretransplant Pregnancy On Immunization and Immunologic Outcome in Kidney Transplantation

    O. Staeck,1 D. Khadzhynov,1 S. Kreimer,1 E. Rajakangas,1 C. Schönemann,2 N. Lachmann,2 K. Budde,1 F. Halleck.1

    1Nephrology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany; 2Zentrum für Transfusionsmedizin, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

    BACKGROUND:The detailed impact of pretransplant pregnancy on HLA alloimmunization and outcome after kidney transplantation is so far not well known.PATIENTS AND METHODS:A retrospective single center…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Clinical Subclassifiation of ABMR Phenotypes: Recognizing Variation in Presentation

    P. Halloran, M. Lopez, I. Salazar, J. Chang.

    Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, Edmonton, Canada.

    The diagnosis of ABMR in kidney transplants is based on ptc-, g- and cg-lesions in biopsies and donor-specific antibody (DSA). To recognize the actual phenotypes…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Diseases: Analysis of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Databases

    A. Ganoza, B. Shneider, R. Sindhi, K. Soltys, G. Bond, G. Vockley, Q. Sun, G. Mazariegos.

    Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Purpose: To analyze long term patient survival outcomes after primary LTx for metabolic disease in children <21 years at CHP (1981-2014) and the multi-center UNOS…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    A Single Center Study of the Implementation Costs of the New Kidney Allocation System

    C. Bostic, T. Stern, S. Niederhaus, J. Bromberg, D. Leeser.

    Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.

    Background: Changes to the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) required transplant programs to utilize resources to prepare for its implementation. A complex strategy was developed which…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Passive Administration of Antibodies to Cardiac Myosin Immediately Following Syngenic Cardiac Transplantation Result in Rejection

    M. Sharma, M. Gunasekaran, N. Benshoff, W. Liu, A. Gelman, T. Mohanakumar.

    Surgery, Washington Univ Sch of Med, St. Louis, MO.

    Introduction: Auto-immune responses to cardiac myosin, a heart specific protein has been proposed to be a target auto-antigen resulting in cardiac allograft vasculopathy following transplantation.…
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