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Articles tagged "Biopsy"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    IFTA Is Linked to Urinary Microbiome Changes.

    B. Modena, R. Milam, F. Harrison, S. Kurian, D. Salomon, A. Kirk.

    Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.

    Purpose: The microbiome is important to human health and alteration may lead to aberrant immunity and disease. Interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy(IFTA) occurs in 20%…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Deterioration of Graft Function (DeKAF) Study: Histologic Interpretation of Cross-sectional vs Prospective Cohorts.

    A. Matas,1 A. Fieberg,1 L. Hunsicker,2 J. Grande,3 For the DeKAF Group.

    1U of MN, Mpls, MN; 2U IA, Iowa City, IA; 3Mayo, Rochester, MN.

    The major aim of the DeKAF study was to define previously unidentified phenotypes resulting in late graft dysfunction and loss (GL). Two cohorts were developed,…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Everolimus with Low-Dose Tacrolimus vs. a Standard Immunosuppressive Regimen: Renal Histology at 6 Months in De Novo Renal Transplant Patients.

    S. Yilmaz,1 D. Shaffer,2 F. Shihab,3 K. McCague,4 D. Patel,4 Y. Qazi,5 F. Vincenti.6

    1University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; 2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; 3University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 4Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ; 5University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 6University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

    Morphologic changes in transplant protocol biopsies provide early evidence of renal damage. This study examined the renal histology of de novo patients 6 months post…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Anti-Donor T-Cell Immunity Is a Continuum Immune Process Favouring Subclinical Rejection After Kidney Transplantation

    E. Crespo,1 M. Lucia,1 J. Cruzado,1,2 S. Luque,1 E. Melilli,2 A. Manonelles,1,2 N. Sala,2 J. Grinyó,1,2 O. Bestard.1,2

    1Experimental Nephrology Laboratory, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain; 2Nephrology Department and Renal Transplant Unit, Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

    Subclinical T-cell mediated rejection (sc-TCR) accounts for a major cause of kidney allograft loss and is unexpectedly found in a rather important number of protocol…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Glomerulosclerosis Patterns Are Non-Uniform Throughout the KDPI Spectrum With Impact on Biopsy Evaluation of Kidneys for Transplant

    M. Jendrisak,1 K. Mulawa,1 M. Harmon,1 D. Cimbaluk.2

    1Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL; 2Rush University, Chicago, IL.

    Background: The kidney donor profile index (KDPI) stratifies kidney quality with direct bearing on organ allocation and utilization. Procurement biopsy is commonly performed and factored…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Reassessing Tubulitis and Interstitial Infiltrate: Creating a New Probabilistic Definition of TCMR

    P. Halloran, I. Salazar, M. Lopez, J. Chang.

    Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, Edmonton, Canada.

    Conventional diagnosis of T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR) in kidney transplant biopsies relies on interstitial inflammation (i-lesions), tubulitis (t-lesions), vasculitis (v-lesions) and experience-derived interpretation rules. The…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Intra-Allograft Common Rejection Module (CRM) Expression in Kidney Transplants Diagnoses Acute Rejection and Predicts Long Term Graft Prognosis

    Y. Ng, S. Roedder, O. Bestard, T. Sigdel, S.-C. Hsieh, M. Sarwal.

    Surgery, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

    Background: Previous studies with cross-organ transcriptional analysis of 794 allograft biopsies from kidney, liver, heart and lung transplant patients identified a common rejection module (CRM)…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Histopathological Criteria for Elevated Risk of Delayed Graft Function in German Pretransplantation Kidney Biopsies from Deceased Donors

    J. Becker,1 B. Eggers,2 P. Mertens,3 A. Schwarz,4 C. Chatzikyrkou.3

    1Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany; 2Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany; 3Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Diabetology and Endocrinology, University Hospital of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Saxonia-Anhalt, Germany; 4Clinic for Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.

    Introduction:Delayed graft function (DGF) is more frequent with so called marginal kidney donors. Moreover, it is linked to increased recipient mortality and inferior transplant outcome.…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    The Occurrence of v- Lesions Is Not Associated With Decreased Graft Survival

    P. Halloran, I. Salazar, M. Lopez, J. Chang.

    ATAGC, Edmonton, Canada.

    Intimal arteritis (v-lesions) in kidney transplant biopsies has been believed to have major prognostic and diagnostic significance. We assessed the relationship of v-lesions to prognosis…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Which Place of Pancreas Graft Biopsy in the Management of Pancreas Transplant Recipients?

    F. Buron, M. Rabeyrin, O. Rouvière, S. Reffet, C. Chauvet, O. Thaunat, M. Brunet, R. Cahen, S. Daoud, C. Pouteil-Noble, R. Codas, L. Badet, E. Morelon.

    Hospices civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.

    Introduction.Rejection or autoimmune recurrence is often difficult to diagnose in the field of pancreas transplantation. The place of pancreas graft biopsy in the management of…
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