2016 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor (ACEI) or Angiotensin Receptor Blockade (ARB) Exposure on Intragraft Gene Expression of Kidney Transplant Patients.
Objective: Treatment with ACEI or ARB has been shown to have anti-inflammatory effects in animal models but this effect has not been investigated in kidney…2016 American Transplant Congress
HLA Identical Renal Transplant Tolerance Using Donor Hematopoietic Stems Cells (DHSC): Role of Immunoregulation.
Purpose: Despite being a “perfect match”, HLA-identical kidney transplants (HLA-Id KTx) are rejected without sufficient immunosuppression (IS), and hence can also benefit from tolerance induction.…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Molecular Biopsy Test for Probability of Non-Adherence.
Afferent arteriolar hyalinosis (ah-score) in renal transplant biopsies increases with time of biopsy-post-transplant (TxBx), reflecting calcineurin inhibitor drug effects, donor aging, and progressive glomerular diseases.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Post Renal Transplant aHUS in Patients with Heterozygous CFHR3-CFHR1 Deletion.
Renal Division, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO.
Background: Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare disease with a triad of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure. Subjects homozygous for…2016 American Transplant Congress
Molecular Assessment of Kidney Transplant Biopsies Performs Similarly in Medulla and Cortex.
Histologic assessment of kidney biopsies is usually unable to interpret medulla, but molecular changes associated with rejection likely occur in both medulla and cortex. Analysis…2016 American Transplant Congress
VDJ Immune Repertoire Sequencing Predicts Patients at Risk of Alloimmune Injury.
1Surgery and Bioinformatics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; 2Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Background: The complex repertoire of immune receptors generated by B cells enables allo-recognition in the context of transplantation across HLA barriers, and is a major…2016 American Transplant Congress
Analysis of T Cell Receptor Repertoire in Routine Renal Allograft Biopsy.
Introduction: Diversity and clonality of the T cell repertoire of circulating and tissue-resident T-cells can be assessed by sequencing of recombined T cell receptor (TCR)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Longitudinal Multi-Omic Profiling of Genes and Pathways Underlying Cardiac Allograft Rejection
Our ability to treat cardiac allograft rejection in both acute and chronic states is typically limited by poor existing biomarkers to predict the occurrence of…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Design and Implementation of a Genome-Wide Genotyping Array Tailored for Transplantation
Over 570,000 solid organ transplants have been performed in the United States since 1988. Despite significant improvements in transplant outcomes, chronic organ rejection affects up…2015 American Transplant Congress
Interrogation of Plasma Cell-Rich Acute Rejection in Human Kidney Allografts by Whole Transcriptome Sequencing
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York.
Plasma cell-rich acute rejection (PCRAR, plasma cells constituting >20% of the allograft infiltrating cells) portends poor prognosis.To gain better mechanistic insights and develop diagnostic biomarkers,…
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