Am J Transplant, Volume 5, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 102 of 170 - ATC Abstracts

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Lipid Profiles Over 2 Years Follow-Up in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients Randomized to Once-Daily MeltDose® Tacrolimus (Envarsus® XR) Vs. Twice-Daily Tacrolimus (Prograf®): Results from a Phase 3, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy, Multicenter Trial
S. Mulgaonkar, O. Pankewycz, S. Steinberg.
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston; Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo; California Institute of Renal Research, San Diego.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in kidney transplant recipients (KTR). Focusing on modifiable CVD risk factors is key to decreasing CVD-related…
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In Pre-Implantation Biopsies Expression of Micro RNAs Is Not a Good Surrogate for Established mRNA Markers of Kidney Injury
K. Famulski,¹ S. Niederhaus,² J. Reeve,¹ J. Bromberg,² P. Halloran.¹
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ²University of Marlyland, Baltimore.
Kidneys from brain dead donors>50 years old are often discarded based on conventional (clinical and histologic) criteria, despite their poor predictive value for subsequent performance…
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Increased Late Graft Loss in Kidney Recipients With Serum Sickness Disease Following Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction: Relation With an Anti-Neu5Gc Response
A. Salama,^1,2 G. Couvrat-Desvergnes,¹ M. Lorent,^1,3 G. Evanno,¹ L. Le Berre,¹ P. Hruba,⁴ P. Vesely,⁵ P. Guerif,¹ A. Nicot,¹ J.-M. Bach,⁶ Y. Foucher,^1,3 S. Brouard,¹ S. Castagnet,⁷ O. Viklicky,⁴ M. Giral,¹ J. Harb,¹ S. Jean-Paul.¹
¹INSERM UMR 1064, ITUN, CHU de Nantes, Nantes University, Nantes, France; ²Société d'Accélération du Transfert de Technologies Ouest Valorisation, Rennes, France; ³EA 4275 SPHERE, Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Pharmaco-Epidemiology, Nantes, France; ⁴Transplant Center, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; ⁵Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic; ⁶IECM, EA4644 University/ONIRIS USC1383 INRA, ONIRIS, Nantes, France; ⁷EFS Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France.
Anti-thymocyte globulins (ATG) are rabbit IgGs against human T cells widely used as induction treatment of kidney recipients. ATG can induce immune-complex diseases including Serum…
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Pretransplant Hepatitis B Viral Infection Increased Risk of Death After Kidney Transplantation
J. Lee,¹ J.-H. Cho,² J. An,³ C.-D. Kim,² C. Ahn,⁴ I. Jung,³ D. Han, C. Lim,³ Y. Kim,⁴ Y. Kim, J. Lee.³
¹Internal Medicine, Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Republic of Korea; ³Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁴Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁵Surgery, Ulsan University Seoul Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Clinical outcomes have not been well evaluated in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Here, we aimed to investigate the recent posttransplant…
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Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Overall Incidence and Comparisons to Deceased Donor Recipients
D. Goldberg,¹ R. Ruebner,² P. Abt.³
¹Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Division of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ³Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Introduction: Since initiation of MELD-based allocation for liver transplants, the risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) post-liver transplantation has increased. Recent US data demonstrated comparable,…
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Safer and More Effective Treatment of Acute Postoperative Pain in Living Liver Donors
D. Ladner,¹ R. Fisher,² J. Guarrera,³ E. Pomfret,⁴ M. Simpson,⁴ A. Daud,⁵ T. Curtis,⁵ E. Reyes,⁵ A. Skaro,¹ D. Woods.⁵
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; ³Columbia University, New York, NY; ⁴Lahey Clinic, Boston, MA; ⁵CHS, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
BACKGROUND: As part of Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Cohort Study (A2ALL), donors were found to experience significant pain post donation, and more than half…
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Immunologic Long-Term Outcome of Living Kidney Transplantation Depending On the Donor-Recipient Relationship
D. Khadzhynov, F. Halleck, D. Schmidt, S. Kreimer, K. Budde, O. Staeck.
Nephrology, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Background. Only few data is available about long-term immunologic outcomes of living kidney transplantation (KTx) depending on the donor-recepient relationship.Patients and methods. This single center…
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Outcome of Kidney Transplantation from Older Living Donors: Histological Evaluation Using Zero-Time Biopsy Specimens
K. Omoto,¹ D. Toki,¹ M. Okumi,¹ T. Shimizu,¹ H. Ishida,¹ K. Honda,² J. Koike,³ K. Tanabe.¹
¹Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Department of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ³Department of Pathology, St. Marianna University, School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan.
OBJECTIVE: The relationship between preimplantation biopsy and graft outcome in kidney transplantations from older living donors has not been studied yet. We reviewed graft outcomes…
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Respiratory Infections Following Lung Transplantation Leads to De Novo Development of Antibodies to Both Donor HLA and Lung Associated Self-Antigens and Increases the Risk for Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome
K. George,¹ M. Gunasekaran,¹ M. Sharma,¹ F. Zhou,¹ A. Limaye,³ R. Hachem,² T. Mohanakumar.¹
¹Surgery, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO; ²Medicine, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO; ³Medicine, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA.
Background: It is accepted that lower respiratory tract infections (LRI) post lung transplantation (LTx) are a risk factor for the development of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome…
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Pretransplant Panniculectomy in Patients Previously Denied Access to Renal Transplantation: Addressing Disparities for Candidates With a High-Risk Abdominal Panniculus After Weight Loss
C. Troppmann,¹ C. Bailey,² J. Kuo,² C. Santhanakrishnan,¹ R. Perez,¹ M. Wong.²
¹Transplant Surgery, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA; ²Plastic Surgery, UC Davis, Sacto..
Some patients (pts) develop a large lower abdominal panniculus following significant weight loss (worsened by age and abdominal wall laxity). CKD pts affected by this…