2015 American Transplant Congress
A Preliminary Study of Using Small Intestinal Submucosa Scaffolds Coated Islets and Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Built Artificial Pancreas
Background: Although islet transplantation successful applied, shortage of donors, poor islet survival and toxicity of immunosuppressants often reduce the graft functional lifetime. Tissue engineered scaffold…2015 American Transplant Congress
Tissue Distribution, Preparation and Phenotype Characteristics of Stem Cells Originated from the Organs of Deceased Human Individuals
Objective: Multipotent stem cells are unique cells present in several human organs that have self-renewing properties and are able to differentiate into diverse specialized cell…2015 American Transplant Congress
Customized Reminders and Provider Notification to Improve Adherence to Immunosuppression
Background: Non-adherence to transplant immunosuppression is associated with an elevated risk of allograft loss. Novel, wireless-enabled pill bottles have created the opportunity to monitor patient…2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Kidneys from Deceased Donors With Acute Kidney Injury
Division of Transplant Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College, New York.
Due to the shortage of kidneys available for transplantation and the morbidity and mortality that occurs while patients wait for a transplant, utilization of organs…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Distinct Glomerular Complement Deposition Pattern in Transplant Glomerulopathy
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
While many patients with transplant glomerulopathy (TG) have donor-specific antibodies, the lack of C4d deposition in the peritubular capillaries (ptc-C4d) in some cases has caused…2015 American Transplant Congress
What Can UNOS Data Tell Us About Patient Outcomes After Primary Renal Allograft Failure?
Evidence based approaches to patient care after Renal Allograft Failure do not exist, despite this being a high mortality period. Access to retransplantation is important…2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Patients With Amyloidosis
Objective: Analyze kidney allograft outcomes in patients with kidney failure due to amyloidosis, and compare kidney transplant survival to patients with other causes of kidney…2015 American Transplant Congress
Center-Level Variation of Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Utilization
Liver waitlist registrants with kidney disease may receive simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplant, or liver-only (LT). Patient characteristics associated with SLK, and center-level variation in SLK…2015 American Transplant Congress
Why Patients Are Unwilling to Ask for a Living Donor: A Mixed Methods Study
Multiple studies find that kidney patients are uncomfortable asking potential living donors to donate, but less is known about the specific reasons why not. This…2015 American Transplant Congress
Evolution of Urinary Albumin Excretion in a Large Cohort of Kidney Donors: No Evidence of Progression
We have previously shown that the prevalence of albuminuria in donors is similar to age, gender and ethnicity matched NHANES controls. This cohort of 259…
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