Articles tagged "Image analysis"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Inverse Monocytic Subset Profile in Blood and Tissue During Heart Transplant Rejection
T. van den Bosch,¹ M. Kraaij,¹ K. Caliskan,² A. Constantinescu,² O. Manintveld,² P. Leenen,³ C. Baan,¹ M. van Groningen,⁴ A. Rowshani.¹
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Section Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ³Department of Immunology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ⁴Department of Pathology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction: Increased monocytic infiltration of heart transplant tissue is documented during acute rejection. It is still unclear how changes in circulating monocyte pool relate to…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating the Benefits of Everolimus on Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: Further Evidence from Results of Imputations for Missing IVUS Data from A2310 Study
P. Lopez,¹ G. Dong,² Z. Wang.²
¹Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland; ²Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ; ³Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ.
Purpose: A2310 IVUS study showed that everolimus (EVR) provides cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) benefit compared to mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) by assessing the mean change in…
2015 American Transplant Congress
The Natural History of Kidney Graft Cortical Microcirculation Determined by Real-Time Contrast-Enhanced Sonography (RT-CES)
C. Jiménez,¹ M. López,¹ A. Ros,¹ A. Aguilar,¹ D. Menendez,¹ B. Rivas,¹ M. Santana,¹ R. Madero,² R. Selgas.¹
¹Nephrology, Hospital Univeritario La Paz, Madrid, Spain; ²Biostatistics, Hospital Univeritario La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
Decreasing kidney graft cortical microcirculation has been related to poor prognosis in kidney transplantation. Cortical capillary blood flow (CCBF) can be measured by real-time contrast-enhanced…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Inflammation in Regions of Tubular Atrophy (IATR) Predicts Adverse Graft Outcome in Patients With Late Graft Dysfunction: A Multicenter Study
J. Grande,¹ R. Leduc,³ A. Matas.²
¹Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ³Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Purpose: Inflammation in regions of tubular atrophy (IATR) is a risk factor for late graft loss. However, IATR is associated with inflammation in non-atrophic regions…