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  • 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…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Follow-Up After Conversion from Twice-Daily Tacrolimus Formulation to Once-Daily Tacrolimus Formulation in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

    C. Choi, A. Han, S. Min, S.-K. Min, T. Lee, I.-M. Jung, S. Kim, J. Ha.

    Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

    PurposeTacrolimus is one of the most frequently used immunosuppressants in pediatric kidney transplantation (KT) as in adult. In Pediatric kidney recipients, it is more important…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Discrepancies Between the U.S. Transplant Registry and Cancer Registries Regarding Cancer Diagnoses in Transplant Recipients

    E. Engels,1 D. Segev,2 J. Snyder,3 B. Kasiske,3 E. Yanik.1

    1National Cancer Institute, Bethesda; 2Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; 3SRTR, Minneapolis.

    Background: Transplant recipients have elevated cancer risk. US transplant centers report incident cancer diagnoses to the transplant network at yearly intervals, and these data are…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Industry Payments to Transplant Surgeons

    R. Ahmed, E. Chow, A. Massie, E. King, B. Orandi, S. Bae, L. Nicholas, B. Lonze, D. Segev.

    Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.

    The Open Payments Program (OPP) was implemented to publicly disclose industry payments to physicians, enabling patients to be aware of potential conflicts of interest. Outcomes…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Human CMV-Specific CD8 T Cells Exhibit Distinct Phenotypes and Distribution Patterns in Tissues and Circulation

    C. Gordon,1,2,5 J. Thome,1,3 G. Tomer,1 D. Farber.1,3,4

    1Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; 2Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; 3Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; 4Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; 5University of Melborne, Melbourne, Australia.

    IntroductionCMV persists and is controlled by T cells in multiple tissues; however, study of CMV responses has largely been limited to blood containing only 2-3%…
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