Am J Transplant, Volume 5, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 141 of 170 - ATC Abstracts

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Boosting the Adaptive Immune Response Prevents the High Incidence of Herpes Zoster After Lung or Heart Transplantation
N. van Besouw,¹ S. Roest,² J. Zuijderwijk,¹ R. de Kuiper,¹ J. van Weezel,³ A. van der Eijk,⁴ W. Weimar,¹ P. Hal,³ O. Manintveld.²
¹Internal Medicine - Transplantation, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Cardiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ⁴Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Purpose Primary varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection causes varicella and lifelong latent infection in ganglia from which it may reactivate leading to herpes zoster (HZ).…
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Can Post-Transplant C-Peptide Be Used as an Indicator of Pancreas Graft Failure?
R. Carrico,¹ J. Fridell,² J. Odorico,³ R. Stratta,⁴ K. Tyler,¹ S. Niederhaus,⁵ R. Kandaswamy,⁶ J. Fisher,⁷ O. Olaitan,⁸ M. Mujtaba.²
¹UNOS, Richmond, VA; ²Indiana Univ School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ³Univ Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI; ⁴Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC; ⁵Univ of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD; ⁶Univ of MN Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; ⁷Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA; ⁸Rush Univ Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
Background: The OPTN Pancreas Transplantation Committee is attempting to define pancreas graft failure and performed a study to determine if C-peptide corresponds to pancreas graft…
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Screening Recipients of Increased Risk Donor Organs: A Multicenter Study
N. Theodoropoulos,¹ K. Brizendine,² M. Ison.³
¹Infectious Diseases, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; ²Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ³Infectious Diseases/Organ Transplantation, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Purpose: Policy mandates post-transplant (tx) evaluation of recipients of increased risk donor organs (ROIRDO). PHS guidelines recommend that screening include HIV & hepatitis C virus…
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Non-Invasive Panel of MicroRNAs Predict Long-Term Outcomes Post-Kidney Transplantation
J. Suh,¹ D. Maluf,¹ H. Cathro,² R. Gehrau,¹ I. McConnell,¹ K. Brayman,¹ C. Dumur,² V. Mas.¹
¹Surgery and Pathology, UVA, Charlottesville, VA; ²VCU, Richmond, VA.
Background. Currently available methods for evaluating kidney graft function post-transplantation (KT) are either ineffective or inaccurate (e.g., serum creatinine) or highly invasive (e.g., biopsies). We…
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Changes in Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in Pediatric Liver Transplant (LT) Recipients During Protocolized Immunosuppression Withdrawal (ISW): The iWITH Trial
S. Mohammad,¹ S. Sundaram,² V. Venkat,³ M. Martinez,⁴ J. Lopez,⁵ J. Magee,⁵ E. Alonso,¹ S. Feng.⁶
¹Northwestern U, Chicago; ²U of Colorado, Aurora; ³U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; ⁴Columbia U., New York; ⁵U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; ⁶UCSF, San francisco.
ISW may limit medication-related comorbidities but intensive monitoring and unexpected rejection episodes may compromise HRQOL. We studied longitudinal HRQOL in pediatric LT recipients undergoing ISW…
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The Selection Process for Total Artificial Heart
F. Arabia, L. Czer, M. Kittleson, E. Passano, F. Liou, J. Yabuno, H. Henry, D. Chang, F. Esmailian, J. Kobashigawa, J. Moriguchi.
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: Heart failure patients with severe biventricular failure who are candidates for heart transplant are considered for Total Artificial Heart (TAH) support. These patients may…
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Failure to Account for Critical Candidate Characteristics Significantly Biases Kidney Transplant Center Report Cards Measuring Time to Transplant
L. Kayler,¹ J. Schold.²
¹Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; ²Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Kidney transplant rate is proposed to be integrated into the new composite metric to evaluate center performance. Current methods adjust for PRA, blood type, re-transplantation,…
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Matching Strategies in Kidney Paired Donation: A 7-Year Analysis of a Multi-Institutional Registry
D. Fumo,^1,2 L. Reece,² S. Stepkowski,¹ V. Kapoor,¹ S. Rees,² J. Kopke,² M. Rees.^1,2
¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH; ²Alliance for Paired Donation, Maumee, OH.
Failure to convert computer-identified possible Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) exchanges into transplants has prevented KPD from reaching its full potential. The purpose of this study…
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Negative Effects of Being Obese or Overweight on T Regulatory (Treg) Cell Suppressive Function in Patients Listed for Lung Transplantation (Tx)
T. Akimova,¹ J. Diamond,² D. Wilkes,³ D. Lederer,⁴ J. Christie,² W. Hancock.¹
¹Path & Lab Med, CHOP & UPenn, Philadelphia; ²Pulm, Allergy & Crit Care Med, UPenn, Philadelphia; ³Med, Microbiol & Immunol, Indiana Uni Sch of Med & Thoracic Transplant Prog, Indianapolis; ⁴Medicine, Columbia Uni, New York.
Aim: Obese and overweight patients may be prone to adverse outcomes following lung Tx. We sought to determine the relationship between body mass index (BMI)…
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Ex Vivo Expansion With Rapamycin Enhances the Suppressive Function of Regulatory T Cells (Tregs) Isolated from Pediatric Thymus
E. Dijke,^1,2,3 R. Hoeppli,^3,4 T. Ellis,^1,2 J. Pearcey,^1,2 I. Larsen,^1,2 I. Rebeyka,^1,2 D. Ross,^1,2 M. Levings,^3,4 L. West.^1,2,3
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ²Alberta Transplant Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ³Canadian National Transplant Research Program, Edmonton/Vancouver, AB/BC, Canada; ⁴University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
INTRODUCTION: Treg-based cellular therapy to suppress graft-directed immunity could reduce the need for life-long immunosuppressive drugs. Challenges include isolation and expansion of pure Tregs to…