2015 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Diseases: Analysis of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Databases
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.
Purpose: To analyze long term patient survival outcomes after primary LTx for metabolic disease in children <21 years at CHP (1981-2014) and the multi-center UNOS…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Study of the Implementation Costs of the New Kidney Allocation System
Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Changes to the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) required transplant programs to utilize resources to prepare for its implementation. A complex strategy was developed which…2015 American Transplant Congress
Passive Administration of Antibodies to Cardiac Myosin Immediately Following Syngenic Cardiac Transplantation Result in Rejection
Surgery, Washington Univ Sch of Med, St. Louis, MO.
Introduction: Auto-immune responses to cardiac myosin, a heart specific protein has been proposed to be a target auto-antigen resulting in cardiac allograft vasculopathy following transplantation.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Renal Tubular Dysfunction Following Donor Nephrectomy and Its Impact On Residual Kidney Function
Background: Recent publications have described an increasing incidence of end stage renal disease amongst kidney donors. This highlights the paucity of knowledge which exists in…2015 American Transplant Congress
Engagement of the Vasopressin Receptor On Hepatocytes Protects Liver from Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Via the WNT-β-Catenin-SGK1-FOXO Pathway
The synthetic vasopressin analogue, terlipressin, has been extensively used in the management of certain complications associated with end-stage liver diseases (ESLDs), however concerns have been…2015 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of an EVR- Vs. an MMF-Based Regimen After Pediatric Kidney Transplantation (KTX): A Case-Control Study Within the CERTAIN Registry
Background: Only short-term trials using everolimus (EVR) in children after KTX have been published. Hereby we present 4 year data on low-dose ciclosporin A (CsA),…2015 American Transplant Congress
Allograft Class II MHC and CD40 Expression Are Required for Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cell Proliferation in Cardiac Allografts Subjected to Prolonged Cold Ischemic Storage
Endogenous memory CD8 T cells infiltrate MHC-mismatched cardiac allografts and produce IFN-γ in response to donor class І MHC within 24 hrs after graft reperfusion…2015 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Circulating HLA-Specific Alloreactive Memory B Cells Reveals Surreptitious Immunized Kidney Transplant Recipients at High Risk of Antibody-Mediated Rejection
Even though current bead-based multiplex techniques enable an accurate assessment of circulating HLA-specific antibodies, a more comprehensive study of the humoral alloimmune response through the…2015 American Transplant Congress
Predicting Graft Loss in a Population of Kidney Transplant Patients Diagnosed With ABMR/TG
ABMR is the main cause of late graft loss in kidney transplants. Our goal was to determine the variables most strongly predictive of graft loss…2015 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Excellent Results of ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantations at Multicenter Japanese Case Series
[Background]Although kidney transplantation (KT) is the most reassuring treatment for patients with ESRD, shortage of organ donation in Japan is crucial. This issue has forced…
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