2020 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of a Positive Crossmatch on KAS Patients and Organs
1Medical Affairs, Hansa Biopharma, Camas, WA, 2Hansa Biopharma, Lund, Sweden, 3UNOS, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Evaluate the potential effects of offer refusals due to positive crossmatch (+XM) on both patients and re-allocated organs with a focus on waitlist outcomes,…2020 American Transplant Congress
Role of APC Subsets in Rejection and Graft-Versus-Host-Disease in Intestinal Transplantation
Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Intestinal transplantation (ITx) is arguably the most immunogenic and complex organ transplantation, often accompanied with high rates of allograft rejection (AR) and graft-versus-host disease…2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient Genetic Relationship and Outcomes of Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT): Does it Really Matter?
1Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, 2University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The impact of donor-recipient genetic relationship on LDLT outcomes has been raised by some recent reports. We sought to study this over a large…2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcome of Induction Therapies in Low Sensitized Renal Transplant Recipients with Two HLA DR Mismatch in Tacrolimus Era
*Purpose: A mismatch for two HLA DR antigens portends high immunological risk in renal transplant recipients (RTRs). Induction therapies with both rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin (r-ATG)…2020 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Catch-Up Vaccinations on Anti-HLA Antibody Responses in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Candidates
*Purpose: Evaluate antibody (Ab) response after catch-up vaccinations in pediatric kidney transplant candidates (PKTC).*Methods: A single center retrospective review of PKTC less than or equal…2019 American Transplant Congress
Can Imputation of HLA Allele Level Typing Be Used Clinically in a Multiethnic Population?
*Purpose: Assignment of eplets in transplantation for the purpose of matching or risk stratification requires high-resolution HLA typing, which is not readily available. Computer algorithms…2019 American Transplant Congress
EBV Latent Proteins Encode for Peptides That Prevent Natural Killer Cell Inhibition
*Purpose: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects more than 90% of adults worldwide and is associated with several malignancies, including post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD). Although EBV infection…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Relative Immunogenicity of HLA Mismatches in Adult Liver Transplant Recipients
Determining the immunogenicity of HLA mismatches (MM) may help preventing the appearance of de novo DSA (dnDSA) and avoiding antibody-mediated injuries.We studied the development of…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Brazilian Epitope Virtual Crossmatch Protocol: A Reliable Tool for Increasing Kidney Allocation among Highly Sensitized Patients
Background: In Brazil (BZ), the kidney allocation policy for highly sensitized patients (HS) (PRA ≥ 80%) does not involve prioritization and transplants 10 times less…2018 American Transplant Congress
Informatics Tools for Mapping Molecular HLA Typing Data to UNOS Antigen Equivalencies
Introduction:Molecular HLA typing must be converted to antigen equivalencies for entry into the UNOS database, UNet. Maintaining an up-to-date mapping table for this purpose has…
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