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Articles tagged "Graft survival"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Everolimus Plus Reduced-Exposure Cyclosporin versus Mycophenolic Acid Plus Cyclosporin: Seven-Year Follow-Up of Australia and New Zealand Kidney Transplant Recipients in the A2309 Study.

    S. Chadban,1 H. Pilmore,2 G. Russ,3 J. Kanellis,4 S. Campbell,5 P. O'Connell,6 W. Lim,7 M. Lutherborrow,8 N. Kurstjens,8 R. Walker.9

    1Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; 2Auckland Renal Transplant, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand; 3Central Northern Adelaide Ranel and Transplantation Service, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia; 4Renal Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia; 5University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland, Australia; 6Renal Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; 7WA Liver and Kidney Transplant Service, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia; 8Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Sydney, Australia; 9Renal Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

    A2309 was a 2-year, phase III randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect on graft and patient outcomes of three groups:1.5mg everolimus plus low exposure cyclosporine…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation versus Kidney Transplant Alone on Patient and Graft Survival in Type 2 Diabetics with Elevated BMI.

    S. Singh,1,2 S. Kim.1,2,3,4

    1Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 3Division of Nephrology and the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada; 4Division of Nephrology and the Kidney Transplant Program, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

    Background: Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney transplantation (SPKT) is becoming increasingly common in patients with Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The BMI threshold for listing for SPKT in this…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Center and Surgeons' Experience Improves Outcome in Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Validation of the Report of the A2ALL Consortium.

    S. Nagai, A. Yoshida, M. Rizzari, K. Collins, D. Kim, M. Abouljoud.

    Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.

    Background: Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study (A2ALL) has reported improved outcomes in centers with greater experience (>20 cases). The aim of this study…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Sharpin Expression Modulates TNFα Mediated Inflammation and Cardiac Allograft Rejection in Mice.

    R. Ang,1 P. Heeger,2 A. Ting.1

    1Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY; 2Center for Translational Transplant Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY.

    Increased systemic TNFα levels correlate with transplant rejection and severity of GVHD, and TNFα blockade can prolong graft survival and reduce severity of GVHD. These…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Assessment of Postoperative Glycemic Control in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients.

    J. Glick Frasiolas, J. Matthew, D. Tsapepas.

    NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York.

    Hyperglycemia may occur after solid organ transplantation because of stress, immunosuppressants, and diabetes mellitus. Glycemic control has been shown to decrease morbidity and mortality in…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Outcomes with the Use of Pediatric Donor Livers in Adult Recipients: Review of the UNOS Database.

    K. Croome, D. Lee, J. Burns, J. Nguyen, D. Perry, C. Taner.

    Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL.

    Background: While there is an agreement that pediatric donor (PD) livers should ideally be used for pediatric recipients, there remain some situations where these livers…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Patients with ESRD Due to Diabetes Have Higher Variability of Their Tacrolimus Levels and Worse Outcomes.

    D. Goodall, M. Willicombe, A. McLean, D. Taube.

    Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.

    IntroductionNonadherence to immunosuppressants is associated with rejection and graft loss and nonadherence to antidiabetics is associated with poor glycaemic control leading to microvascular complications and…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Urinary Virome in Human Kidney Transplants Reveals Multiple Virus Subtypes with Distinct Genome Polymorphisms.

    R. Ranjan,1 A. Rani,1 H. McGee,1 D. Brennan,2 P. Finn,1 D. Perkins.1,3

    1Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; 2Division of Renal Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; 3Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

    Recent studies have established that human urine has its own unique microbiome, but little is known about the virome. The human virome is the collection…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Fecal Microbiota Transplant Results in Durable Changes to Host Microbiota That Correlate with Allograft Outcome.

    C. Brinkman, L. Hittle, W. Fricke, E. Mongodin, J. Bromberg.

    CVID and IGS, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

    Hypothesis: We previously presented highly significant differences in the bacterial community structures of human renal allograft recipients over time. Likewise, murine normal, colitic, and pregnant…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Machine Perfusion (MP) at 21[deg]C Simulates Hibernation Metabolic Pathways in a Non-Hibernator Mammal.

    B. Banan, S. Dobrowolski, G. Michalopoulos, P. Fontes.

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

    Background: Hibernation is a complex and multi stage process that leads to unique metabolic changes over an extended period of time. Regulatory genes and transcription…
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