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  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Educational Attainment On Kidney Transplant Outcomes By Race

    A. Aguirre-Alarcon,1 P. Friedmann,1 A. Gregg,2 L. Kayler.3

    1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 2University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 3Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.

    Educational attainment is associated with disparities in graft and recipient survival in kidney transplant (KTX) candidates; however, the impact of educational status within racial groups…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Preformed IgA Antibodies to B2-Glycoprotein Is an Indepedent Risk Factor for Graft Thrombosis and Early Graft Loss After Renal Transplantation

    J. Morales,1 M. Serrano,3 J. Martinez,2 D. Perez,2 M. Sevilla,2 A. Amdres,3 E. Gonzalez,3 E. Paz-Artal,2 A. Serrano.2

    1Research Institute, hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; 2Immunology, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; 3Nephrology, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.

    Vessel trombosis represent the first cause of early graft loss (EGL)alter renal transplantation (RT). Our group recently described that preformed IgA antibodies to B2-Glycoprotein (…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    miR-155 Different Roles in UCB iTreg and nTreg

    Y. Lu, L. Lu.

    Liver Transplantation Center of First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

    OBJECTIVES:miR-155 has been associated with both innate and adaptive immune responses. SOCS1, which is involved in Treg survival and function, is a direct target of…
  • 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

    G. Castellano,1 R. Franzin,1 C. Divella,1 A. Stasi,1 A. Intini,1 M. Gigante,1 G. Lucarelli,1 P. Ditonno,1 M. Battaglia,1 A. Crovace,1 F. Staffieri,1 G. Pertosa,1 B. Oortwijn,2 E. Amersfoort,2 G. Grandaliano,3 L. Gesualdo.1

    1University of Bari, Bari, Italy; 2Pharming Technologies NV, Leiden, Netherlands; 3University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy.

    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

    A. Matsuda, N. Kuriyama, H. Kato, Y. Azumi, M. Kishiwada, S. Mizuno, M. Usui, S. Isaji.

    Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan.

    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

    Y. Watarai,1 N. Akutsu,2 K. Saito,3 Y. Nakagawa,3 O. Kamisawa,4 T. Kenmochi.5

    1Transplant Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; 2Surgery, Chiba-East Hospital, Chiba, Japan; 3Urology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan; 4Medical Division, Novartis Pharma K.K., Tokyo, Japan; 5Transplant Surgery, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan.

    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

    Y. Watarai,1 M. Okada,1 K. Futamura,1 K. Ito,1 T. Yamamoto,1 M. Tsujita,1 T. Hiramitsu,1 N. Goto,1 S. Narumi,1 T. Kobayashi.2

    1Transplant Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; 2Applied Immunology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.

    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

    K. Masutani,1 A. Tsuchimoto,1 Y. Matsukuma,1 K. Kurihara,2 Y. Okabe,2 H. Kitada,2 M. Tanaka,2 T. Kitazono,1 K. Tsuruya.1

    1Department of Medicine and Clinical Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; 2Department of Surgery and Oncology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

    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

    W. Goldkamp,1 J. Vanatta,2,3 S. Nair,2,3 E. Wong,3 N. Dbouk.2,3

    1Internal Medicine, The Universty of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; 2Surgery, The Universty of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN; 3Methodist Universty Hospital Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN.

    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?

    J. Minneman, J. Grijalva, S. Rangel, H. Kim, K. Vakili.

    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…
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