2019 American Transplant Congress
Analyzing The Effect Of Liver Transplantation On Myocardial Strain Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography In Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) Patients
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is currently the second most common indication for liver transplant in the United States and is projected to increase in the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors to Define an Extended Criteria Donor Heart Do Not Appear to Have Cumulative Adverse Effects after Heart Transplantation
Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: There remains a disparity between the number of patients awaiting heart transplantation (HTx) and the availability of donor hearts. This is exacerbated by relatively…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cardiac Risk Assessment in Kidney Transplant Candidates: Clinical Usefulness of Different Guidelines
*Purpose: Despite cardiovascular (CV) assessment recommended all kidney transplant recipients to minimize perioperative risk, the utility and reliability of various assessments are not well established.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Local IL-33 Regulates Heart Transplant Infiltrating Myeloid Cells Metabolism and Differentiation to Protect against Chronic Rejection
*Purpose: Self-molecules containing damage-associated molecular patterns stimulate the pro-inflammatory response of infiltrating innate immune cells after their release during tissue injury. Yet, if local endogenous…2019 American Transplant Congress
Pediatric Heart and Lung Graft Loss during the “High-Risk Age Window”
*Purpose: Pediatric kidney transplant recipients experience a high-risk age window of increased graft loss during late adolescence and early adulthood (17-24 years), termed emerging adulthood.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Can Cardiac Risk Predictor Models Be Trusted in Kidney Transplant Recipients?
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) bear a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease due to comorbid conditions. Non-invasive cardiovascular risk stratification tools have not been…2019 American Transplant Congress
Sensitivity of 5-Tier System to Unadjusted Confounding
*Purpose: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) fits risk-adjusted models for its semiannual program-specific reports (PSRs). Although SRTR adjusts for as many important risk…2018 American Transplant Congress
Geographic Variation in the Treatment of Adult Heart Transplant Candidates in the US
1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
The current priority ranking system for US heart transplant candidates is based on treatment intensity which may encourage the overtreatment of relatively stable candidates. We…2018 American Transplant Congress
Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells Suppress with Enhanced Donor Specificity in Donor ECDI-SP Treated Recipients
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.
Introduction: Published data in cancer models have shown that myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) can induce antigen-specific CD8 T cell tolerance and promote tumor escape (Nagaraj…2018 American Transplant Congress
Heart Transplantation in Patients with Complex Congenital Heart Disease
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: As medical and surgical management of complex congenital heart disease (CCHD) improves, patients may survive into adulthood to suffer from end-stage heart failure and…
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