2015 American Transplant Congress
Role of Complement in Mediating Pericyte Trans-Differentiation in Resident Myofibroblasts: A New Hypothesis On Vascular Rarefaction in Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R) Injury
Vascular rarefaction is critical in the development of renal fibrosis. Pericytes regulate renal blood flow and might be an important source of renal interstitial myofibroblasts;…2015 American Transplant Congress
Activated Protein C Treatment Protects Steatotic and Non-Steatotic Livers Under Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury in Different Manner
Activated protein C (APC) is known to have the cytoprotective effect on liver ischemia–reperfusion injury (IRI) in rat models. However, it is unclear that whether…2015 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus Plus Reduced-Exposure Calcineurin Inhibitor Versus Mycophenolate Mofetil Plus Standard-Exposure Calcineurin Inhibitor: 2-Year Results in Living Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients
Purpose: To evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of everolimus (EVR) plus reduced cyclosporine (rCsA) compared to mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) plus standard cyclosporine at 24…2015 American Transplant Congress
Safety and Efficacy of Low Dose and Very Low Dose Extended-Release Tacrolimus / MMF in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients
Recently, once-daily tacrolimus extended-release formulation (TACER) has been accepted in kidney transplantation, however its optimal dosing are not well evaluated. We have validated low dose…2015 American Transplant Congress
Histological Analysis in ABO-Compatible and Incompatible Kidney Transplantation By Performing 3-Month and 1-Year Protocol Biopsies
Background. ABO incompatible kidney transplantation (ABO-I KTx) is nowadays a well-established procedure to expand living donor source. Graft and patient survivals of ABO-I KTx were…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Receiving a Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Graft
Background: Recent data suggests that patients with Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who receive a donation after cardiac death (DCD) graft have inferior graft and patient survival…2015 American Transplant Congress
Does Higher Cost Improve Outcome in Pediatric Liver Transplantation?
Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Examine the relationship between transplant-related total cost and 1-year graft failure and patient mortality rate for liver transplantation at freestanding children's hospitals.Using the Pediatric Health…2015 American Transplant Congress
New Insights in Clinical and Genetic Determinants of Longitudinal Dose-Corrected CNI Exposure in Children After Renal Transplantation
Purpose: Calcineurin-inhibitors (CNI) have a narrow therapeutic index and dosing is difficult due to inter- and intra-individual variation in pharmacokinetics (PK). Polymorphisms in genes involved…2015 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Transplant Rates in Children Are Declining
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Living donor (LD) transplant rates have been declining since 2004 in adult candidates. We sought to determine if this trend is also occurring in pediatric…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Explore Transplant Program in GA: Is Historical Access to Transplantation Associated With Kidney Transplant Knowledge and Preparedness to Educate ERSD Patients?
1Emory University, Atlanta; 2University of California, Los Angeles.
IntroductionDialysis facilities play a key role in educating end stage renal disease patients on kidney transplantation (KTx). We aimed to investigate the association between historical…
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