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Articles tagged "Graft acceptance"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Superiority of Donor-Specifically vs. Polyclonally Expanded Regulatory T Cells in Controlling Graft Rejection in the NSG Mouse Human Skin Graft Model

    J. H. Voss1, F. Zheng1, M. D. Jendrisak2, J. R. Leventhal1, Z. J. Zhang1, J. M. Mathew1

    1Surgery – Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL

    *Purpose: Naturally occurring CD4+CD25highFOXP3+ Regulatory T cells (Tregs) function as mediators of immune homeostasis. So, they are beginning to be utilized for controlling hyper-immunity and…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Machine Perfusion Allows Use of High KDPI and Prolonged Cold Ischemia Time in Deceased Donors: A Single Center Effort to Decrease Discard Rates

    M. Ortigosa-Goggins, J. Gaynor, A. Mattiazzi, J. Figueiro, G. Burke, G. Ciancio, G. Guerra

    Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Discard rates of deceased donor kidney transplants(DDKT)rises as the kidney donor profile index(KDPI)increases,and approaches 60%for KDPI of >85%.Pulsatile machine perfusion(MP)allows use of kidneys with…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (COIIN): Impact on Deceased Donor Transplant Rates and Offer Acceptance Practices

    A. Wey1, S. Gustafson1, B. Carrico2, J. Foutz2, K. Sisaithong3, M. McBride2, D. Klassen2, D. Klassen2, N. Salkowski1, B. Kasiske1, A. Israni1, J. Snyder1

    1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 2OPTN, Richmond, VA, 3OPTN, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) completed the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (COIIN), a study to increase kidney transplants by reducing risk…
  • 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…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Patient Perspectives of Informed Consent for Deceased Donor Organ Intervention Research

    E. Gordon1, B. Knopf1, A. Mussell2, C. Phillips2, R. Veatch3, P. Abt2, P. Reese2

    1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 2University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Georgetown University, Washington DC, DC

    *Purpose: Interventions on deceased donors or their organs hold promise for increasing the quantity and quality of organs for transplantation by minimizing organ injury and…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell-Mediated Graft Prolongation Requires microRNA-181 and Semaphorin 4a

    J. Harden, X. Qi, A. Lau, S. Krams

    Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA

    *Purpose: Dendritic cells (DCs) are antigen-presenting cells (APCs) important for initiating and coordinating the immune response. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are a subset of DCs…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Conceptual Extension of SNP Based Abundance Profiling to Infer Donor Derived Cell-Free DNA Fraction as an Indication of Organ Rejection

    R. Sinha, K. Mickey, J. Grantham, M. Wissel, M. Altrich, S. Kleiboeker

    R&D, Viracor-Eurofins, Lee's Summit, MO

    *Purpose: Rejection is a major post-transplant complication for organ transplant recipients. Biopsy remains the standard to diagnose rejection, but other non-invasive methods, such as transcript…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    AMD3100 (Plerixafor) as a Single-Dose Stem Cell Mobilizing Agent in Vascularized Composite Tissue Allograft (VCA) Transplantation in a Canine DLA-Mismatch Model

    B. Swearingen1, S. Graves2, R. Storb2, D. W. Mathes1

    1University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 2Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

    *Purpose: Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) transplantation is a clinical reality but limited by toxicities of chronic immunosuppression and rejection. Current clinical tolerance protocols rely on…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Discards for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Center Transplant Program

    H. Villafuerte1, E. De Sousa-Amorim2, L. Peri3, M. Musquera3, E. Palou4, M. Lozano5, J. Cid5, J. Martorell4, J. M. Campistol2, F. Oppenheimer2, F. Diekmann2, I. Revuelta2

    1Department of Nephrology, Hospital Clinic Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain, 2Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, 3Department of Urology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, 4Department of Immunology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, 5Department of Apheresis, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain

    *Purpose: New and coming information about the risk of living kidney donors make the effort to study very carefully the option of living kidney donor…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Meld Score / Grwr Ratio (meldgr) Can Predict Surgical Outcomes And Prognosis Of The Recipients In Adult-to-adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation

    A. Tanemura, A. Hayasaki, T. Fujii, Y. Iizawa, H. Kato, Y. Murata, N. Kuriyama, Y. Azumi, M. Kishiwada, S. Mizuno, M. Usui, H. Sakurai, S. Isaji

    Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University, Tsu, Japan

    *Purpose: In living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), various risk factors have been identified among both recipient and donor factors, such as Model for End-Stage Liver…
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