2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes with the Use of Pediatric Donor Livers in Adult Recipients: Review of the UNOS Database.
Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL.
Background: While there is an agreement that pediatric donor (PD) livers should ideally be used for pediatric recipients, there remain some situations where these livers…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Kidneys with Acute Kidney Injury: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Introduction:The widening gap between supply and demand in kidney transplantation has lead to the increased use of kidneys from marginal donors, including those with acute…2015 American Transplant Congress
Poor Renal Function and Increased Mortality in Elderly Recipients of Deceased Donor Kidneys from Elderly Donors
Background: Within the Eurotransplant Senior Program kidneys form donors older than 65 both after cardiac death (DCD) or brain death (DBD) are allocated to recipients…2015 American Transplant Congress
Donor Specific Tolerance Can Be Induced by Donor Bone Marrow Transfer With Activation of Invariant Naturel Killer T Cells
It has been reported that liposomal formulation of a-galactosylceramide(lipo-aGC) could induce antigen specific regulatory T cells (Treg) in vivo when administered with particular antigens. We…2015 American Transplant Congress
Human Hematopoietic Chimeric Cells as a Novel Approach for Tolerance Induction After Transplantation
Background: Cellular therapies represent a new promising approach for transplant tolerance induction. One of the methods for immune response modulation in solid organ and vascularized…2015 American Transplant Congress
Is the Pulsatile Kidney Preservation Machine a Vaulable Tool in Evaluating Kidney Suitability from Older Donors After Brain Death?
Introduction: Donors after Brain Death (DBD) older than 60 years old, have become 46.8% of our donor activity, with higher Discard Rate (DR). Assessment of…2015 American Transplant Congress
In Pre-Implantation Biopsies Expression of Micro RNAs Is Not a Good Surrogate for Established mRNA Markers of Kidney Injury
1University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 2University of Marlyland, Baltimore.
Kidneys from brain dead donors>50 years old are often discarded based on conventional (clinical and histologic) criteria, despite their poor predictive value for subsequent performance…2015 American Transplant Congress
Anti-LG3 Antibodies Aggravate Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (IRI) is a significant cause of renal allograft dysfunction and a risk factor for poor long-term graft outcomes. Microvascular injury is an important…2015 American Transplant Congress
Implication of Intragraft γδ T Cell Profiles in Operational Tolerance After Clinical Transplantation of Highly Immunogenic Intestine -Difference from Immunoprivileged Liver
(Background) T-cell receptor (TCR) Vδ2 γ δ T cells (Vδ 2 cells) participate in host defense, whereas Vδ 1 γ δ T cells (Vδ 1…2015 American Transplant Congress
Alloimmune Regulation and Long-Term Allograft Survival Induced by Short-Term Administration of Chinese Medicine Cornus Officinalis and Cuscuta Sinensis Lam
Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Achieving long-term allograft survival or tolerance without continuously global immunosuppression is a highly desirable goal. This study is to induce long-term allograft survival without long-term…
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