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Articles tagged "Graft acceptance"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Mobile Application for Communication Increases the Efficiency of Organ Procurement and Transplantation

    E. Pahl

    Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    *Purpose: Donor organ recovery is a complex process involving organ procurement organizations and multiple surgical teams from various transplant centers. According to the Organ Preservation…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Allotransplantation of Ligated Arteriovenous Fistula as a Novel Strategy for Patients with Multiple Vascular Access Failures

    M. A. Jaramillo-Gante1, C. E. Acosta-Hernandez1, P. R. Castro-Casillas1, I. J. Linares-Cervantes2

    1Surgery, Star Medica Hospital, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

    *Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of allotransplantation of a ligated arteriovenous fistula*Methods: We report the first case of allotransplantation of a mature working arterialized cephalic…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Cardiac Allograft Tolerance Can be Achieved in Non-Human Primates via Transient Mixed Hematopoietic Chimerism and Erythropoietin Administration

    K. Ahrens1, J. M. O1, W. Sommer2, J. Morrissette1, D. Becerra1, P. M. Patel1, A. Dehnadi1, T. Costa1, I. M. Hanekamp1, J. S. Allan3, P. Cravedi4, P. S. Heeger4, G. Benichou1, J. C. Madsen5

    1Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 3Center for Transplantation Sciences, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 4Translational Transplant Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 5Center for Transplantation Sciences, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: In non-human primates (NHPs), a mixed chimerism-based conditioning protocol results in kidney transplant tolerance and combined kidney and heart allograft tolerance. Previous work showed…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Gross Morphological Score for Deceased Donor Kidneys Can Predict Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients

    M. Mandurah, M. A. Levine, A. Sener, P. Luke

    Department of Kidney Transplantation, London Health Sciences Center, London, ON, Canada

    *Purpose: Both microscopy and kidney donor profile index (KDPI) scoring systems have been used to predict kidney transplant outcomes. Utilizing gross renal morphology, we designed…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Dual Kidney Transplantation Offers a Safe and Effective Way to Use Kidneys from Deceased Donors Older Than 70 Years

    K. Lee, J. Park, S. Cha, M. Kim

    Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of

    *Purpose: Dual kidney transplantation (DKT) offers a way to extend the use of kidneys from expanded criteria donors (ECDs). Here, we compared the outcomes of…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Occult Graft Fibrosis on Clinical Outcomes in Human Liver Transplant Recipients

    H. Hirao1, T. Ito1, B. V. Naini1, K. Nakamura2, S. Kageyama1, K. Kadono1, H. Kojima1, K. J. Dery1, S. Younan1, F. M. Kaldas1, R. W. Busuttil1, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski1

    1UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    *Purpose: Although liver transplantation (LT) has become a standard therapy for end-stage liver disease, early allograft dysfunction (EAD) and graft rejection remain serious unsolved problems.…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Geographic Discard Disparities of Liver Allografts

    P. I. Kenny Jr1, A. Rana2, J. Vierling2

    1Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the significant geographic disparity in liver allograft discard.*Methods: Using the OPTN Diseased Donor Network database, we…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Predicting Kidney Allograft Discard: The Kidney Discard Risk Index

    M. B. Price, M. Joshi, T. Zhang, J. Vierling, T. Galvan, R. Cotton, C. O'Mahony, J. Goss, A. Rana

    Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

    *Purpose: The disparity between the supply and demand for kidney allografts is exacerbated by an 18.9% discard rate. It is our aim to determine predictors…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Report of Organ Offers Linked with Instant Messaging Data Provides a Basis for Quality Improvement

    E. Pahl

    Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    *Purpose: Thousands of viable organs are discarded every year with incorrect or inappropriate reasons for declination. One limitation on the accessibility of organ transplantation is…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Allogenic Islets Cure Diabetes Following Transplantation in Omental Pouch in a Non-Human Primate Model

    J. Lei1, H. Deng1, K. Lee1, C. Peters1, G. Rickert1, R. Ivy1, M. Coronel2, E. Yolcu3, H. Shirwan4, A. García5, J. Markmann1

    1Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Surgery, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 3Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, louisville, KY, 4Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, louisville, KY, 5School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

    *Purpose: In the current standard clinical transplant approach, islet cells are administered intravenously into the portal system where they lodge in the liver. This approach…
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