Articles tagged "Graft acceptance"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Poor Renal Function and Increased Mortality in Elderly Recipients of Deceased Donor Kidneys from Elderly Donors
S. Berger,¹ H. Peters-Sengers,² M. Heemskerk,³ F. Bemelman,² J. Homan van der Heide.²
¹Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ²Department of Nephrology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ³Dutch Transplant Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands.
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
S. Miyairi,¹ T. Hirai,¹ R. Shibahara,¹ K. Omoto,¹ S. Nunoda,² K. Yamazaki,² Y. Ishii,³ K. Tanabe.¹
¹Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan; ²Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan; ³Laboratory of Vaccine Design, RIKEN IMS-RCAI, Yokohama, Japan.
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
E. Bryndza Tfaily,¹ J. Cwykiel,¹ K. Dastych,² A. Sklodowska,¹ M. Siemionow.¹
¹Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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?
D. Paredes Zapata,¹ A. Ruiz Arranz,¹ C. Rodriguez Villar,¹ L. Peri Cussi,² A. Alcaraz Asensio,² R. Adalia Bartolome,¹ F. Oppenheimer Salinas.³
¹Donation and Transplant Coordination Section, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; ²Urology Department, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; ³Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
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…