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Articles tagged "Highly-sensitized"

  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Single Centre Report of Renal Transplantation Against a Positive Crossmatch Due to HLA-DP Donor Specific Antibodies without Prior Antibody Removal

    Y. Marie1, T. Key2, A. Halawa1

    1Renal Transplantation, Sheffield Kidney Institute, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 22.Department of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: In renal transplantation, the clinical effects of donor specific antibodies (DSA) against HLA-DP are unclear. We report successful kidney transplants in three highly sensitised…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Accommodating Increasing Volumes without Knocking Down Walls: Update on an Infusion Center’s Growth

    J. C. Estrada

    Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: An increase in transplants performed at the medical center in comparison to the limited availability of outpatient infusion chairs and home infusion companies compelled…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Risk Factors for Antibody-Mediated Rejection after Adult Liver Transplantation with Preformed Donor-Specific Antibodies: A Single Center Experience

    T. Tajima, K. Hata, J. Kusakabe, H. Miyauchi, T. Anazawa, T. Ito, S. Uemoto

    Div. of HBP Surgery and Transplantation, Dept. of Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    *Purpose: In general, preformed donor-specific antibodies (pDSAs) can lead to an increased risk of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR); however, their prevalence, risk factors, and the efficacy…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Desensitization Combining Costimulation Blockade with Proteasome Inhibition in Highly Sensitized Transplant Candidates

    S. Restaino1, D. Jennings2, G. Serban3, E. Vasilescu3, G. Sayer1, N. Uriel1, K. Takeda4, Y. Naka4, M. Farr1, M. V. Habal1

    1Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, 2School of Nursing, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, 3Pathology&Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, 4Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Antibodies to human leukocyte antigens (HLA) pose a significant barrier to transplantation. Strategies to reduce allosensitization have modest efficacy and may result in antibody…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Kidneys from Pediatric Donors Are Preferentially Allocated to Adult Highly Sensitized and Not to Pediatrics Under the New Kidney Allocation System (KAS)

    D. Puliyanda1, H. Pizzo1, J. Garrison1, S. Williamson2, I. Kim2, E. Huang2

    1Pediatric Nephrology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: In 12/2014, the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) assigned allocation priority to highly sensitized (HS) recipients while maintaining access to donors for pediatric patients…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Blocking Complement Component C3 in a Sensitized Nonhuman Primate Model of Kidney Allotransplantation

    R. Schmitz1, P. M. Schroder1, Z. W. Fitch1, A. Y. Choi1, M. Manook1, J. Yoon1, A. Farris2, E. S. Reis3, J. D. Lambris3, J. Kwun1, S. J. Knechtle1

    1Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 3Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Sensitized transplant recipients represent a challenge due to the presence of donor-specific antibodies (DSA), which increase the risk of antibody-mediated rejection. Complement inhibition has…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Validation of Gene Expression Signatures Associated with Antibody-Mediated Rejection (ABMR) in Renal Allograft Biopsies (Bx) of HLA-Sensitized Patients

    H. Zhang1, C. C. Nast2, N. Ammerman3, A. A. Vo3, S. C. Jordan3, M. Toyoda1

    1Transplant Immunology Laboratory, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 3Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: "Thoroughly validated gene transcripts” in renal Bx was adopted as one of the criteria for ABMR diagnosis in the latest Banff classification. Previously, we…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Vaccination And Allosensitization In Solid Organ Transplant Candidates

    L. Lourenco1, K. B. Bain2, L. Bowman3, D. C. Brennan4, G. A. Ewald5, R. R. Hachem6

    1Pharmacy, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Pharmacy, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 3Pharmacy, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, 4Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 5Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 6Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

    *Purpose: Clinical practice guidelines recommend vaccinating patients awaiting solid organ transplantation (SOT) against vaccine-preventable infections, but there is little evidence to suggest that vaccination reduces…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Rejection, Infectious, and Renal Outcomes with Perioperative Desensitization in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients

    M. Plazak, B. Reed, S. Hammad, S. Gale, V. Ton, D. Kaczorowski, T. Trobiano, B. Ravichandran

    University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Pre-transplant allosensitization remains a significant barrier to organ allocation and a paucity of evidence exists to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of perioperative desensitization…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    5-Year Post-Transplant Outcomes with Bortezomib-Based Desensitization in Renal Transplant Recipients

    K. Zheng1, S. Tremblay1, A. R. Shields2, M. A. Cardi2, J. Kremer2, R. R. Alloway1, E. S. Woodle1

    1U of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

    *Purpose: Renal transplant (RT) after desensitization (DS) has been associated with increased rejection rates. Proteasome inhibitor(PI)-based DS yields significant reductions in HLA Ab among sensitized…
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