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  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Factors Influencing Cost Among Kidney, Liver, and Heart Transplant Patients in a Private Payer Setting

    W. Bannister,1 C. Wu,1 M. Schnitzler,2 F. Irwin,1 A. Bonagura.1

    1Optum, Minneapolis; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.

    The factors influencing cost in solid organ transplantation have been evaluated by many individual centers, as well as nationally for Medicare patients. However, the majority…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Effects of Mast Cell Stabilization on the Development of Aspiration-Induced Fibrosis in a Rat Model

    E. Sapmaz, Z. Sun, J.-C. Chang, N. Sanders, S. Bell, M. Everett, Z. Holzknecht, W. Parker, R. Davis, S. Lin.

    Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

    Gastric fluid aspiration affects a great number of lung transplant recipients, both before and after the transplant, and can contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality.…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Induction of HO-1 High Expression Enhances the Capacity of Immature Dendritic Cells to Modulate Alloimmune Responses

    G. Chen, Y. Zhao, L. Wang, S. Chen, X. Huang.

    Institute of Organ Transplantation, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

    Background: It has been reported that HO-1 is critical for tolerogenic dendritic cells (tolDCs) to suppress T cell responses and tolDCs will lost their immunoregulatory…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Severe Refractory Skin Eruption Treated With Plasmapheresis in a Multivisceral Transplant Patient

    J. Garcia,1 T. Beduschi,1 A. Tekin,1 J. Fan,1 S. Nishida,1 G. Selvaggi,1 G. Ciancio,1 G. Burke,1 C. Katsoufis,2 L. Pizano,3 R. Vianna.1

    1Miam Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL; 2Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL; 3Surgery Critical Care, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL.

    3 year old African American male who underwent a multivisceral transplant due to gastroschisis. Crossmatch for T and B cells, PRA, DSA were negative. Induction…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Burden of Early Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR): Complications, Resource Utilization and Cost-Differential in Treatment of AMR

    R. Banga,1 C. Schinstock,1 A. Boscoe,4 M. Hathcock,3 W. Kremers,3 M. Stegall.2

    1Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 2Division of Transplantation Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 3Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; 4Health Outcomes Research, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Cheshire, CT.

    Early antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is common in positive crossmatch kidney transplants (+XMKTx). The current study determined the complications, resource utilization and cost associated with early,…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    A Single Center Study on Pregnacy and Allograf Function Outcomes Post Heart Transplant

    S. Adams, M. Wigger.

    Heart Transplant, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nasvhille, TN.

    Pregnancy is a special time during a young woman's life, especially more so in those young women who are post heart transplant. The purpose of…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    CD8+TCR– Bone Marrow Facilitating Cells Prime Migration and Enhance Homing of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells

    Y. Wen,1 Y. Huang,1 T. Miller,1 S. Ildstad.1,2

    1Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; 2Regenerex, LLC, Louisville, KY.

    We recently reported the induction of chimerism and tolerance to renal allografts without GVHD or engraftment syndrome in HLA-mismatched living donor renal transplant recipients through…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Creation of a Functional Bio-Artificial Intestinal Segment in Rats

    T. Corsello, G. Damiano, M. Tuveri, M. Montalbano, C. Rastellini, L. Cicalese.

    Surgery, UTMB, Galveston, TX.

    Short bowel syndrome is caused by reduced intestinal length and insufficient absorption. TPN may improve life expectancy, but is potentially associated with severe complications and…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Detergent-Sonication Method for the Whole Laryngeal Decellularization

    N. Nayakawde,1 K. Methe,1 M. Berg,2 G. Premaratne,1 H. Ejnell,2 M. Olausson.1

    1Surgery, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden; 2Departments of 1Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden.

    Background: Each year, about 136,000 individuals worldwide are diagnosed with larynx carcinoma. Tissue engineered organs shows promising alternative to a conventional transplantation in both preclinical…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Gradual Warming Up Perfusion Post Static Cold Storage Reduces Renal Injury

    P. Mahboub,3,1 P. Ottens,1 R. Ploeg,2 P. Martins,3 H. Leuvenink.1

    1Surgery, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands; 2Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 3Surgery, UMass, Worcester, MA.

    We hypothesize that the sudden warm reperfusion after Cold Storage [CS] is detrimental for the graft and we therefore evaluated different warming-up procedures before reperfusion.Methods:Rat…
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