2015 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Liver Allografts from Deceased Donors. Non Medical Causes for Discard. A Review of the SRTR Annual Report
1Surgery, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO; 2Medicine, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, CO.
INTRODUCTION: Discrepancy between demand (end stage organ disease) and supply (organs) remains one of the limiting factors in solid organ transplantation and underlies the dynamics…2015 American Transplant Congress
Vitamin D Deficiency in Liver Transplant Recipients: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes
Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Vitamin D is known to be immunomodulatory, and its deficiency is associated with multiple chronic health problems in the general population. The objective of this…2015 American Transplant Congress
Age Should Not Be Considered a Contraindication for Living Kidney Donation
Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
The increasing numbers of patients with ESRD on the transplant waiting list has been the main driving force for expanding the donor pool. Acceptance of…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Changing Candidate Demographics on Living Donor Kidney Transplant Rates
Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Living donor (LD) rates continue to decline despite a growing list of candidates for renal transplant in the US. While there are many factors driving…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Center Volume on Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Outcomes
Background: Pancreas transplantation is associated with a high incidence of surgical complications and successful outcomes require experienced surgical and post-transplant care. Prior studies have linked…2015 American Transplant Congress
Do Induction Therapy, Patient-Level and Post-Operative Factors Impact Outcomes in Moderate to High Immunologic Risk Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation in the Era of Stringent HLA Cross-Matching?
Background: Simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation (SPK) is a lifesaving procedure for patients with diabetes mellitus. The success of SPK is dependent upon minimization of…2015 American Transplant Congress
Medication Adherence and Treatment Satisfaction in Liver Transplant Recipients
Background: Research has indicated that adherence to medication in patients with liver transplant is poor and considered as one of the main barriers to the…2015 American Transplant Congress
Metabolomic Analysis of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
Background. Ischemic reperfusion injury (IRI), an inevitable process during kidney transplantation, can cause significant graft damage and may play a role in delayed graft function.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Chimeric Patients Who Undergo Combined Facilitating Cell-Enriched/HSC/Renal Transplant Exhibit Robust TCR Repertoire
Combined donor kidney plus facilitating cell enriched hematopoietic stem cell (FCRx) transplants (Tx), after low intensity conditioning with fludarabine, 200-cGy total body irradiation and cyclophosphamide…2015 American Transplant Congress
Molecular and Functional Immune Assays as Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tools to Assess the Risk of Acute Subclinical Rejection After Kidney Transplantation
Subclinical allograft rejection (sc-AR) is still a main cause of allograft loss that can only be assessed through invasive surveillance biopsies. We sought to investigate…
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