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Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Belatacept Conversion in Kidney Recipients with Low GFR Does Not Improve Renal Function.

    D. Abdelwahab,1 S. Byron,2 B. Kaplan,1 R. Heilman.1

    1Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; 2Biostatistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

    Background:Belatacept interferes with signal 2 of T cell activation via blockade CD80/86 which doesn't adversely impact renal function. We tested a hypothesis that Belatacept conversion…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Medicinal Herb Cordyceps Sinensis Promotes Long-Term Allograft Survival by Tipping the Balance Between CD4+FoxP3+ Tregs and CD8+ Tcm Cells.

    Z. Dai,1 H. Dai.2

    1Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China; 2University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

    Achieving long-term allograft survival or tolerance without continuously global immunosuppression is highly desirable in transplantation. This study was set to induce long-term allograft survival using…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Inhibition of Bruton Tyrosine Kinase Blocks Sensitization in Response to Allogeneic Skin Transplantation and Prolong Skin Graft Survival.

    N. Datta, T. Palumbo, J. Kupiec-Weglinski, A. Zarrinpar.

    Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

    Antibody mediated rejection and donor specific antibodies are important causes of both early (hyperacute) and late (chronic) graft loss. Bruton tyrosine kinase (Btk) is required…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluating Patients' Experiences Towards Their Immunosuppressive Treatment: A Way to Improve Adherence.

    C. Villeneuve,1,2 M. Grau,1 M. Essig,2,3 S. Hegarat,3 J. Zoughbi,3 P. Marquet,1,2 C. Monchaud.1,2

    1Service of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacovigilance, CHU Limoges, Limoges, France; 2INSERM UMR850, INSERM, Limoges, France; 3Service of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, CHU Limoges, Limoges, France

    In transplantation, low therapeutic adherence is associated with an increased risk of rejection, chronic allograft dysfunction and graft loss. Improving adherence necessitates identifying its barriers,…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Effects of Tofacitinib (JAK-3 Inhibitor) on De Novo HLA-A2 Antibody Production in a Mouse Model of Allo-Sensitization.

    N.-N. Chai, G. Wu, I. Kim, A. Klein, S. Jordan.

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

    Purpose: Tofacitinib is a Janus Kinase Inhibitor currently approved by FDA for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. In considering its effect in reducing B cell proliferation…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    IL-33 Enhances the Ability of Dendritic Cells to Expand Human Regulatory T Cells.

    Y. Zhao,1 H. Zhang,1 L. Mathews,1 H. Turnquist,1,2 A. Thomson.1,2

    1Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

    Introduction:The importance of increasing the number of regulatory T cells (Treg) relative to T effectors for the promotion of long-term experimental allograft survival/tolerance is well-established.…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Immunosuppression (IS) Withdrawal (ISW) After ATG and Rituximab in Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTR): RESTARRT Early Results (NCT01318915).

    B. Burrell,1 J. Bromberg,2 C. Hartono,3 A. Posselt,4 A. Naji,5 D. Kaufman,6 R. Redfield III,6 S. Kanaparthi,1 D. Ikle,7 K. Much,7 N. Bridges,8 L. Sun,1 A. Priore,8 M. DesMarais,1 K. Crisalli,9 S. Chandran,1 J. Markmann.9

    1ITN, Bethesda/San Francisco; 2UMD, Baltimore; 3Rogosin, New York; 4UCSF, San Francisco; 5UPenn, Philadelphia; 6UWisconsin, Madison; 7Rho, Chapel Hill; 8NIAID/NIH, Bethesda; 9MGH, Boston

    Growing evidence implicates B cells in transplant tolerance. RESTARRT is a 6-center ISW study in adult living-related-donor KTR receiving ATG induction and rituximab with a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Single-Center, Prospective, Open Label Pilot Study to Investigate the Effectiveness of Everolimus Associated with Mycophenolic Acid and Prednisone in Adult Patients Submitted to an Allograft Renal Transplant with Calcineurin Inhibitor Withdrawl on Week 16th.

    L. Giordano,1,2 M. Lasmar,1,2 H. Vianna,1,2 E. Lasmar.1,2

    1Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital Universitário Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 2Nephrology Department, Rede Mater Dei de Saúde, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Although CI have proven efficacy in kidney transplantation worldwide, they are drugs with nephrotoxic potential and may contribute to chronic renal allograft nephropathy. As a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    No Impact of One Year of Everolimus, as Compared to MPA, in the Reversal of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Elderly Renal Transplant Recipients – Preliminary Data from Then Everold Study.

    E. David-Neto,1 F. Agena,1 M. Furtado,2 A. Rodriges,2 J. Andrade,2 F. Lemos,1 F. Paula.1

    1Renal Transplantation Service, Hospital das Clinicas – University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2Echocardiography Services, Hospital das Clinicas – University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    It has been suggested that mTor inhibitors may contribute to the reversal of myocardial hypertrophy after transplantation possibly due to its biological effects like enhanced…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Personalizing Immunosuppression with Molecular Phenotyping in Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

    M. Ningappa, C. Ashokkumar, Q. Sun, B. Higgs, K. Soltys, G. Bond, G. Mazariegos, R. Sindhi.

    Pediatric Abdominal Transplant, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh

    Background: Optimizing immunosuppression requires selecting an agent which can inhibit the dominant anti-rejection mechanism in individual children with liver transplantation (LTx). Extended use of steroids,…
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