Articles tagged "Graft failure"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Transplantation Tolerance Prevents CMV Reactivation and Preserves Kidney Allograft Function in a D+/R- Transplant Setting
A. Dangi,¹ J-.J. Wang,² M. Burnette,¹ Z. Zhang,² X. Luo.^1,2
¹Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Background: Immune responses to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection may precipitate acute/chronic graft rejection in immunocompromised transplant recipients. CMV infection can be primary or its reactivation from…
2018 American Transplant Congress
5-Year Serum Alkaline Phosphatase Levels after Kidney Transplantation is Associated with Long-Term Graft Survival and Mortality in Kidney Recipient
H. Choi,¹ D. Kim,^2,3 K. Huh,^2,3 Y. Kim,^2,3 B. Kim.^1,3
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ³The Research Institute for Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Background: Previous studies have attempted to identify risk factors of renal graft injury that can be used to improve long-term graft survival. Recently, higher serum…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Experience for Graft Failure after Heart Transplantation
S. Lehmann, K. Jawad, S. Feder, A. Meyer, M. Dieterlen, J. Fischer, J. Garbade, M. Borger.
Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
INTRODUCTION:Acute graft failure is the leading cause of early mortality after heart transplantation (HTX). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a therapy option to treat heart…
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Trends of Racial and Education Disparity in Post-Kidney-Transplant Graft Survival and Patient Survival: Do Different Metrics Lead to Different Conclusions?
M. Garber, K. Ross, R. Hamoda, L. Plantinga, R. Patzer.
Emory University, Atlanta.
Background: Monitoring trends in racial and socioeconomic disparity in disease outcomes is a Healthy People 2020 priority. For some chronic disease outcomes, such as cancer…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Activity Nanosensors for Early and Noninvasive Detection of Acute Organ Transplant Rejection
Q. Mac,¹ D. Mathews,² J. Kahla,¹ C. Stoffers,¹ O. Delmas,¹ B. Holt,¹ A. Adams,² G. Kwong.¹
¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; ²Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Purpose: We engineered activity nanosensors that sense anti-allograft T cell activity in vivo to noninvasively detect the onset of acute cellular rejection from urine.Methods: Granzyme…
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Bariatric Surgery before and after Kidney Transplantation: Long-Term Weight-Loss and Allograft Outcomes
J. Cohen, M. Lim, C. Tewksbury, S. Torres Landa, J. Trofe-Clark, P. Abt, N. Williams, K. Dumon, S. Goral.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Obesity, a critical public health issue affecting >25% of kidney transplant (KTX) candidates, is often a barrier to transplantation. Bariatric surgery is an important tool…
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Kidney after Liver Transplant: A Matched Pair Analysis
M. Eerhart, J. Reyes, J. Danobeitia, L. Zitur, P. Chlebeck, L. Fernandez.
Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Background: Kidney after liver (KAL) transplantation is the best therapeutic option for patients with ESRD after liver transplantation (OLT). Current allocation policies create a safety…
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Does Pre-Operative Angiographic Kidney Embolization Decrease Complications in Allograft Nephrectomy?
D. Harriman, V. Mujumdar, A. Farney, J. Rogers, G. Orlando, A. Reeves-Daniel, R. Stratta.
Surgery, Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC.
Introduction: Morbidity associated with allograft nephrectomy (AN) for treatment of failed or diseased kidney transplants is well documented. Pre-operative angiographic kidney embolization (PAKE), which induces…
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Early Graft Losses in National PKE Programs: Gone, but Lost Forever?
J. Verbesey,¹ A. Waterman,² J. Veale,² S. Flechner,³ B. Javaid,¹ M. Ronin,⁴ G. Hil,⁴ C. Matthew.¹
¹MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC; ²UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ³Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ⁴NKR, Babylon, NY.
Background: PKE increases transplants for patients who are highly sensitized or incompatible with intended living donors. Following catastrophes like primary non-function(PNF) or early graft loss,…
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Lactate/platelet Ratio after Liver Transplantation; a Novel Predictor for Short-Term Graft Failure
K. Takahashi,¹ S. Nagai,² M. Safwan,² K. Collins,² M. Rizzari,² A. Yoshida,² N. Ohkohchi,¹ M. Abouljoud.²
¹Surgery, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²Transplant, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background; Recently, platelet count and lactate level after liver transplantation (LT) have been both separately reported as predictors of graft failure. In this study, we…