Am J Transplant, Volume 5, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 45 of 170 - ATC Abstracts

2015 American Transplant Congress
Outpatient Management of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) Is Associated With Reduced Length of Stay and Acute Rejection
B. Muth,¹ B. Astor,¹ J. Turk,¹ M. Mohamed,¹ S. Parajuli,¹ D. Kaufman,² D. Mandelbrot,¹ A. Djamali.^1,2
¹Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; ²Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Delayed graft function (DGF) increases hospital length of stay (LOS) and risk for readmission, rejection, early graft loss and death. We created a multidisciplinary DGF…
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Safety and Efficacy of All Oral DAA Therapy for Genotype 1 HCV Post-Liver Transplant: Interval Results from the HCV-TARGET Multicenter Prospective Observational Study
J. O'Leary,¹ R. Brown,² K. Reddy,³ A. Kuo,⁴ G. Morelli,⁵ R. Stravitz,⁶ G. Everson,⁷ C. Durand,⁸ H. Vargas,⁹ P. Kwo,¹⁰ C. Frenette,¹¹ J. Peter,¹² M. Vainorius,¹² L. Akushevich,¹² D. Nelson,⁵ M. Fried,¹² N. Terrault.¹³
¹Baylor University Medical Center, TX; ²Columbia University, NY; ³University of Pennsylvania, PA; ⁴UCSD, CA; ⁵University of Florida, Gainesville, Gainesville, FL; ⁶Virginia Commonwealth University, VA; ⁷University of Colorado, CO; ⁸Johns Hopkins, MD; ⁹Mayo Clinic, AZ; ¹⁰Indiana University, IL; ¹¹Scipps Clinic, CA; ¹²University of North Carolina, NC; ¹³UCSF, CA.
The safety and efficacy of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) for HCV post-LT remain unknown. METHODS: We describe the safety and efficacy of all oral DAA-therapy for…
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Six Year Follow-Up of a Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Induce Tolerance in Mismatched Living Donor Renal Transplant Recipients
J. Leventhal, M. Abecassis, L. Gallon, J. Galvin, J. Mehta, K. Ravindra, D. Tollerud, M. Elliott, S. Ildstad.
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL; Duke University, Durham, NC; Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; Regenerex, LLC, Louisville, KY.
27 subjects have been transplanted in a phase 2 protocol (IDE 13947) based upon tolerogenic CD8+/TCR- facilitating cells (FCRx) and 200 cGy TBI-based nonmyeloablative conditioning…
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Hepatic Stellate Cells Directly Inhibit B Cells Via PD-L1
Y. Li, K. Fang, S. Qian, J. Fung, L. Lu, F. Lin.
Immunology, Lerner Research Institute; 2General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) account for one third of the nonparenchymal cells in the liver, which are considered to be critical in maintaining the immunoprivileged…
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Functional Status Predicts Mortality After Liver Transplant
N. Dolgin,^1,2 P. Martins,¹ F. Anderson,^1,2 A. Bozorgzadeh.¹
¹Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA; ²Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Purpose: To investigate whether pre-transplant functional status predicts mortality after liver transplant (LT).Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of first-time adult LT recipients using…
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Induction Therapy Improves 15-Year Graft Survival in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Acute Rejection
R. Bajoka, M. Goggins, A. Patel.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background: Graft(GS) and patient survival(PS) has been shown to be superior in patients without delayed graft function (DGF) or acute rejection(AR). Induction therapy(IT) is frequently…
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Impact of Cold Ischemic Time (CIT) and Distance Traveled (DT) on Shipped Kidneys in the OPTN/UNOS Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) Pilot Program (PP)
M. Aeder,¹ D. Stewart,² R. Leishman,² L. Robbins Callahan,² A. Kucheryavaya,² T. Sandholm,³ R. Formica.⁴
¹Univ Hosp Case Med Ctr, Cleveland, OH; ²UNOS, Richmond, VA; ³Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA; ⁴Yale Univ, New Haven, CT.
Background: The success of a national KPD program is predicated on excellent early kidney function and graft survival (GS). As other KPD programs have reported…
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Adoptive Immunotherapy With Liver Allograft-Derived NK Cells Improves Recurrence-Free Survival After Living-Donor Liver Transplantation in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
N. Tanimine, Y. Tanaka, K. Ishiyama, M. Ohira, S. Shimizu, T. Yano, H. Ohdan.
Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Introduction: Previous studies revealed that the recurrence rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was still 10–20%, even among liver transplantation (LT) recipients meeting the Milan criteria…
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Pharmacoepidemiology of Cytomegalovirus Prophylaxis in a Large Multicenter Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients
C. Santos, D. Brennan, V. Fraser, M. Olsen.
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO.
Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis or preemptive treatment are recommended for seronegative recipients of kidneys from seropositive donors (D+/R-) and seropositive patients (R+), but not D-/R-…
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Identifying Predictors of Organ Donation Among African-American Men
C. Harris,¹ C. Modlin,¹ S. Olden,² A. Nowacki,³ T. Franklin,⁴ J. Canedy,¹ M. Tavaras,¹ A. Harris,¹ Y. Hamilton,⁵ C. Zaramo.¹
¹Glickman Urologic & Kidney Institute Minority Men's Health Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; ³Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ⁴College of Medicine, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA; ⁵Lifebanc of Ohio, Cleveland, OH.
Objective: The growth of the national transplant waiting list continues to far outpace the number of available organs, particularly among African Americans (AA). This study…