2015 American Transplant Congress
Are Living Kidney Donors Who Apply Via a Web-Based Screening Application as Likely to Be Evaluated and Donate as Compared to Phone Applicants?
Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
Purpose: Most transplant centers screen self-referring donors using phone and written surveys. Previous research at our center has shown that a web-based application for screening…2015 American Transplant Congress
High Atherosclerotic Burden in Pediatric Lung Transplant Recipients
Purpose: Pediatric lung transplant patients have been reported to have an increased incidence of hypertension. This incidence might be caused by the treatment with calcineurin…2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in the Septuagenarian
Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
The elderly ESRD population in the US continues to grow. National data demonstrates that both patient (PS) and graft survival (GS) at 1 and 5…2015 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Significance of Estimated DSA MFI Values at 1,000 C1q MFI for Differentiation Between Harmful and Harmless DSA
INTRODUCTIONControl of chronic antibody mediated rejection (CAMR) is essential for further improvement of long-term graft survival. Early detection of de novo donor specific antibodies (DSA)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Validation of a Blood and Biopsy Gene Expression-Based Molecular Diagnostics for Subclinical Acute Rejection: Comparing DNA Microarrays Vs. Next-Generation RNA Sequencing
1The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Background: Microarray-based gene expression signatures for clinical diagnostics are well described. However, microarrays lack advantages offered by newer technologies such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS):…2015 American Transplant Congress
Urinary Cell-Free DNA Is a Sensitive Marker of Early Renal Transplant Injury
Surgery, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Introduction:Circulating donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) has been reported as a surrogate of transplant injury in the blood but requires expensive donor and recipient DNA sequencing.Method:…2015 American Transplant Congress
Mononuclear Cell Infiltrates Characterization in Scar Tissue from a Bilateral Forearm Transplant Patient: Findings to Think
Herein we report the cell infiltrating pattern in scar tissue resected at the junction of the VCA and the tissue corresponding to the recipient arm,…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Predictive Value of the Proliferation Marker Ki-67 in Patients With Fulminant Hepatic Failure
This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of the cellular proliferation marker Ki-67 in the liver biopsies of patients with fulminant hepatic failure.Under IRB…2015 American Transplant Congress
IgM+ Antigen Binding B Cells in Peripheral Blood Regulate IFNγ Production in Response to HLA Proteins
Chronic antibody mediated rejection (CAMR) is a major cause of graft loss in renal transplant recipients. Previous work utilising an IFNγ ELISPOT assay revealed two…2015 American Transplant Congress
Association Between the Timed Up and Go Test and Waitlisting for Kidney Transplantation
Introduction: The Timed Up and Go Test (TUGT) is a test of balance, mobility and functional capacity. Longer times on the TUGT are associated with…
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