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2015 American Transplant Congress
DSA Monitoring in Kidney Transplant Recipients
F. Pean,¹ M. Cooper,¹ J. Verbesey,¹ A. Gilbert,¹ B. Javaid,¹ R. Mohammed,¹ O. Timofeeva,² J. Moore,¹ K. Cruz,¹ R. Ghasemian,¹ T. Fishbein,¹ M. Grafals.¹
¹Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; ²Clinical Laboratory and Histocompatibility, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Introduction: The development of DSA monitoring is a new technique to detect antibodies in kidney transplant recipients. Data has shown that development of DSA post…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Increased Length of Stay After Heart Transplant: What Are the Risk Factors?
A. Velleca, M. Kittleson, N. Perry, J. Patel, F. Liou, S. Siddiqui, J. Rush, D. Ramzy, L. Czer, D. Chang, J. Kobashigawa.
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Purpose: Initial hospital length of stay following heart transplant is variable. The longer the hospital stay, the increased cost related to the surgery. This will…
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Outcome of Invasive Aspergillosis in Liver Transplant Recipients Under Current Antifungal Therapy
U. Herden, E. Grabhorn, B. Nashan, L. Fischer.
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Introduction: Invasive aspergillosis is a rare but severe complication following liver transplantation (LTX) with reported mortality rates up to 100%. Our purpose was to investigate…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Orthotopic Transplantation of a Tissue Engineered Skin Graft in Athymic Mice
N. Nayakawde, P. Patil, K. Methe, M. Olausson.
Surgery, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden.
Background: Tissue engineered (TE) skin offers promising alternative treatment in wound healing of acute and chronic skin injuries. Limited autografts from donor skin and risks…
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Establishment of Diabetes Modeling in Common Marmoset
W. Yuan,¹ S. Fukuda,¹ T. Inoue,² D. Chujo,¹ H. Okochi,¹ E. Sasaki,² M. Shimoda.¹
¹National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; ²Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Kawasaki, Japan.
Background:Diabetic nonhuman primates (NHPs) are considered as the good models for both diabetes mellitus research and islet transplantation research safely into clinical applications. However, there…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Ischemia-Induced Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Regulates Autophagy to Determine the Severity of Liver Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
H. Zhou,^1,2 J. Zhu,¹ S. Yue,¹ R. Busuttil,¹ J. Kupiec-Weglinski,¹ Y. Zhai.¹
¹The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²Liver Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Both endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and autophagy have been implicated in the pathogenesis of ischemia and reperfusion injury (IRI). As essential cellular stress responses against…
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Enhancing Kidney Function Following DCD Donation With Thrombolytic Therapy: A Preliminary Report of a Multicenter Prospective Quasi-Blinded Randomized Trial
K. Woodside,¹ D. Goldfarb,² J. Rabets,² E. Sanchez,¹ D. Lebovitz,³ J. Schulak,¹ J. Fung,² B. Eghtesad.²
¹Transplant Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; ²Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ³LIfebanc, Cleveland, OH.
Kidneys from donors following cardiac death (DCD) are at risk for inferior outcomes, possibly due to microthrombi and additional warm ischemia. We describe an organ…
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100 Protocol Renal Allograft Biopsies at 10 Years: First Look at the Tacrolimus Era
M. Stegall,¹ W. Park,¹ F. Cosio,² L. Cornell.³
¹Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ³Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
This study examined late renal allograft injury in the Tacrolimus era in 10-yr protocol biopsies (Bx).Methods One hundred 10-yr protocol allograft bx were assessed using…
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Morphometry of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) in Subsequent Biopsies from Transplanted Kidney
R. Świder, A. Perkowska-Ptasińska, A. Stachurska, J. Fabijańska-Mitek, R. Zagożdżon, S. Gruca, J. Gołąb, M. Durlik.
Department of Transplantation Medicine, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Transplantation Medicine, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Immudohaematology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Immudohaematology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Immunology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Immunology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Immunology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Transplantation Medicine, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland.
EMT plays the principal role in the pathogenesis of IF/TA as a consequence in the failure of a transplanted kidney. Many facts suggest that the…
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Down-Regulation of Autophagy Correlates With Increased Apoptosis in the Kidney, But Not in the Liver, of Brain Dead Rats
A. van Erp,¹ R. Rebolledo,³ P. Ottens,¹ J. Pirenne,² H. Leuvenink,¹ J.-P. Decuypere.²
¹Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; ³Department of Surgery, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Organs from brain dead donors have inferior quality and show higher rejection rates after transplantation compared to living donors. Brain death (BD) in the donor…

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