2018 American Transplant Congress
High Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) Donor Kidneys: Use Them, Don't Lose Them!
Surgery, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
Introduction: With the development of the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) and a new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) implemented on 12/4/14, the expanded criteria donor…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Quality Influences Patient and Graft Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients with End Stage Renal Disease
Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Background: Recent changes in the allocation policy established by UNOS created a competitive algorithm that facilitates the placement of kidneys in liver transplant recipients that…2018 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating the Impact of Pre-Transplant Malignancy on Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation: A National Database Analysis over a Twenty-Two Year Period
Dept. of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Introduction: Patients with a history of malignancy prior to kidney transplantation are known to develop more post-transplant malignancies and have inferior outcomes. However, there have…2018 American Transplant Congress
A Transcriptomic Signature in PBMC from Kidney Transplant Recipients at Baseline Predicts Early Acute Rejection
Background: Our multi-center study (Genomics of Chronic Allograft Rejection, GoCAR) revealed that early acute rejection (EAR, developed before 6 months post-transplant) is associated with later…2018 American Transplant Congress
LDLT for High MELD Recipients: A Single Center Experience
Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Objectives: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is underutilized in high MELD patients. Our aim was to assess the impact of high MELD score on short-term…2018 American Transplant Congress
Mid-Term Outcome of Donor Specific Antibody Positive Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation with Peri-Transplant Desensitization
Donor specific HLA-antibodies (DSA) remain a large barrier to successful kidney transplantation and there is a limited knowledge about desensitization strategies in deceased donor programs.Anti…2018 American Transplant Congress
High Fibre Diet Induces Donor Specific Kidney Allograft Tolerance in Mice
Aim: To investigate the impact of high fibre (HF) diet or dietary supplementation with the short chain fatty acid sodium acetate (SA) on kidney allograft…2018 American Transplant Congress
Intraoperative Blood Loss during Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Single Center Experience
Background: The aim of this study is to identify risk factors for massive intraoperative blood loss in pediatric liver transplant recipients and describe its impact…2018 American Transplant Congress
Sirolimus-Based, Prednisone-Free Regimen in Kidney Transplantation: Long Term Results of an Open-Label, Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: Calcineurin (CNI) nephrotoxicity is implicated in chronic allograft dysfunction and presents an argument for CNI minimizing immunosuppression. We assessed the long-term effects of CNI…2018 American Transplant Congress
Graft Immunocomplex Capture Fluorescence Analysis Can Detect Intra-Graft Anti-Blood Group A/B Antibodies
Background: Graft immunocomplex capture fluorescence analysis (ICFA) is an attractive method to detect intra-graft donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (HLA-DSA). In ABO incompatible (ABOi) transplantation, anti-A/B antibodies…
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