2018 American Transplant Congress
State of the Union: Outcomes of a Single Center's A2-to-B Transplants Two Years after the Implementation of KAS
Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
Introduction. Since the implementation of the new KAS there are few reports on both single center outcomes in the modern era of transplantation and the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Biochemistry Profiles Following Pig-to-Nonhuman Primate Liver Xenotransplantation
Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Objectives:Clinical progress in liver transplantation has increased the demand for organs, however, supply remains stagnant. Porcine liver xenotransplantation (LXT) would help address this imbalance. Here…2018 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced Recovery after Kidney Transplantation Regardless of Donor Organ Source
BACKGROUND: Enhanced recovery after kidney transplantation is a desired outcome with potential value-enhancing benefits of reduced length of stay (LOS), costs, and risk of nosocomial…2018 American Transplant Congress
Malignancies in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Long-Term Observational Study
Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Background: Previous studies have shown increased incidence of malignancies in patients after kidney transplantation. However, most of the existing data on post-transplant malignancies is limited…2018 American Transplant Congress
Subclinical Borderline Rejection: More Than Meets the Eye?
UAB School of Medicine, Birmingham.
Purpose: Surveillance biopsies can detect subclinical T cell mediated rejection (SC-TCMR) or subclinical borderline rejection (SC-B-TCMR) in patients with normal/stable creatinine, but the impact on…2018 American Transplant Congress
VLA-4 Blockade Inhibits Early Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cell Infiltration into Higher Risk Cardiac Allografts and Donor-Reactive T Cell Priming
Endogenous memory CD8 T cells infiltrate MHC-mismatched cardiac allografts within 24 hrs after graft reperfusion in mice. Our recent studies indicate that prolonged cold ischemic…2018 American Transplant Congress
Antibody-Verified Eplet Mismatches as Determinants of Premature Kidney Transplant Loss
Introduction: HLA matching at the epitope level offers new opportunities to identify compatible donors for transplant candidates. HLAMatchmaker deduces B-cell epitope ('eplets' in HLAMatchmaker) mismatches…2018 American Transplant Congress
Validation of an Integrative and Dynamic Prognostic Score for Response to Therapy in Solid Organ Transplants
Paris Translational Center for Organ Transplantation, Paris, France.
Drug development in transplantation has diminished due to the lack of suitable endpoints for predicting graft failure. We sought to validate the performance of an…2018 American Transplant Congress
Variation in Cost of Death and Graft Failure across All Solid Organs
1St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO; 2SRTR, Minneapolis, MN; 3Lahey Hosp & Med Ctr, Burlington, VT.
Medicare costs for transplant vary considerably by organ, and costs in the second posttransplant year (Y2) are lower than in the first (Y1). Variability in…2018 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Macrophage Innate Receptors in Recognition and Rejection of Allogeneic Non-Self in Transplantation
Recent studies in several labs provide compelling evidence that the innate immune cells can recognize and reject allogeneic non-self in an antigen-specific manner, but the…
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