2015 American Transplant Congress
Forty-Seven Consecutive Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplants With Steroid Free Immunosuppression After Rabbit Antithymocyte Globulin Induction
Introduction: Utilization of rabbit antithymocyte globulin (RATG) induction as part of a steroid free immunosuppression protocol in orthotopic liver transplantation has gained wide acceptance in…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Effects of Change in Body Mass Index on Morbidity and Mortality After Liver Transplantation
AIM: Typically, a large BMI (body mass index) is associated with poor health as it can lead to a variety of diseases; we investigate frequency…2015 American Transplant Congress
Factors Influencing Cost Among Kidney, Liver, and Heart Transplant Patients in a Private Payer Setting
1Optum, Minneapolis; 2Saint Louis University, St. Louis.
The factors influencing cost in solid organ transplantation have been evaluated by many individual centers, as well as nationally for Medicare patients. However, the majority…2015 American Transplant Congress
Effects of Mast Cell Stabilization on the Development of Aspiration-Induced Fibrosis in a Rat Model
Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Gastric fluid aspiration affects a great number of lung transplant recipients, both before and after the transplant, and can contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality.…2015 American Transplant Congress
Induction of HO-1 High Expression Enhances the Capacity of Immature Dendritic Cells to Modulate Alloimmune Responses
Background: It has been reported that HO-1 is critical for tolerogenic dendritic cells (tolDCs) to suppress T cell responses and tolDCs will lost their immunoregulatory…2015 American Transplant Congress
Severe Refractory Skin Eruption Treated With Plasmapheresis in a Multivisceral Transplant Patient
3 year old African American male who underwent a multivisceral transplant due to gastroschisis. Crossmatch for T and B cells, PRA, DSA were negative. Induction…2015 American Transplant Congress
Burden of Early Antibody-Mediated Rejection (AMR): Complications, Resource Utilization and Cost-Differential in Treatment of AMR
Early antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is common in positive crossmatch kidney transplants (+XMKTx). The current study determined the complications, resource utilization and cost associated with early,…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Study on Pregnacy and Allograf Function Outcomes Post Heart Transplant
Heart Transplant, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nasvhille, TN.
Pregnancy is a special time during a young woman's life, especially more so in those young women who are post heart transplant. The purpose of…2015 American Transplant Congress
CD8+TCR– Bone Marrow Facilitating Cells Prime Migration and Enhance Homing of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells
We recently reported the induction of chimerism and tolerance to renal allografts without GVHD or engraftment syndrome in HLA-mismatched living donor renal transplant recipients through…2015 American Transplant Congress
Creation of a Functional Bio-Artificial Intestinal Segment in Rats
Short bowel syndrome is caused by reduced intestinal length and insufficient absorption. TPN may improve life expectancy, but is potentially associated with severe complications and…
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