Articles tagged "Age factors"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Age-Specific Graft Failure Rates in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
B. Foster,¹ M. Dahhou,¹ X. Zhang,¹ V. Dharnidharka,² J. Conway,³ V. Ng.⁴
¹Pediatrics, Research Institute of the McGill Univ. Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada; ²Pediatrics, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, Central African Republic; ³Pediatrics, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ⁴Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Center, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Graft failure risk peaks during emerging adulthood (18-25 y) in kidney transplant recipients. The association between age and graft failure risk in liver transplant recipients…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Thymic Transplantation to Determine Mechanisms of Thymic Involution: Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor and Forkhead Box Protein N1 in the Thymus Play a Role in Maintaining the Juvenile Thymus
K. Yamada, M. Tasaki, M. Sekijima, A. Kawai, V. Villani, T. Tanabe, I. Hanekamp, A. Shimizu, D. Sachs.
Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boton, MA.
Thymic involution has long been associated with age-related changes of the immune system, although the cause remains unclear. We have extensively studied the role of…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Graft Loss in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients After Transfer of Care
B. Coyne,^1,2 P. Hollen,^1,2 Y. Guofen,³ K. Brayman.⁴
¹Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ²School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; ³Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA; ⁴Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
Improvements in immunosuppression and transplant surgical technique have increased the survival of children with end-stage renal disease. These patients have complex needs, and the current…