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Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Only 13% of Liver Transplant (LT) Recipients with Moderate to Severe Kidney Disease (KD) Tolerate Conversion to Everolimus and Reduced Tacrolimus (EVR/rTac).

    S.-H. Pan, I. Kim, A. Klein, A. Annamalai, T. Todo, N. Nissen.

    Liver Transplant, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

    EVR/rTac has been reported to improve renal function in LT recipients with adequate kidney function (eGFR > 80ml/min); however, this strategy in LT patients with…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Preimplantation and Post-Transplant Serial Biopsies of Standard and Extended Criteria Donor Kidneys: Intragraft Molecular Profiles and Effect of Different Immunosuppressive Protocols.

    C. Mazeti,1 H. Caldas,1 I. Fernandes-Charpiot,2 M. Baptista,2 M. Abbud-Filho.1,2,3

    1Laboratory of Immunology and Experimental Transplantation, Medical School, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil; 2Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Medical School, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil; 3Urology and Nephrology Institute, Urology and Nephrology Institute, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil.

    Background: Use of extended criteria donor kidneys (ECD) carries the fear of to transplant of inferior quality and therefore of high discard rate. Clinical tools…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Pneumocystis Pneumonia Following Solid Organ Transplantation, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    S. Hosseini-Moghaddam,1,2 R. Krishnan.2

    1Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada; 2Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, ON, Canada.

    Background: Different variables have been reported that may increase the risk of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in solid organ transplant patients (SOT).Objectives:To investigate the effect of…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Quality Improvement Initiative to Provide Comprehensive Pharmacy Services to Kidney Transplant Patients at a Small Transplant Center.

    J. Dickson,1 W. Vincent III,1 L. Wu,2 J. Thurman,1 J. Francis,3 M. Nuhn.4

    1Pharmacy, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; 2Northeastern University, Boston, MA; 3Renal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA; 4Transplant Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.

    Purpose: Previously, kidney transplant pharmacy services at our institution were limited to medication profile review before and after transplant surgery. Following an OPTN accreditation site…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Conditional Long Term Intestine Patient and Graft Survival Is Improving Under rATG Immunosuppression in Pediatric Intestine Transplantation.

    N. Celik,1 F. Vyas,1 G. Bond,1 K. Soltys,1 J. Rudolph,2 R. Sindhi,1 G. Mazariegos.1

    1Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Intestinal Care and Rehabilitation Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.

    Aim: We reviewed conditional graft survival and short and long term improvements in children receiving rATG (rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin) immunosuppression for intestine transplantation at a…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Foxp3 Controls Oxidative Phosphorylation in Regulatory T Cells.

    U. Beier,1 A. Angelin,2 J. Jiao,1 H. Xiao,1 L. Wang,3 S. Dahiya,3 A. Wells,3 D. Wallace,2 W. Hancock.3

    1Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; 3Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

    Current immunosuppressive therapies are limited by non-specificity and toxicities, and new pharmacologic approaches to immunosuppressive therapies are needed. Many T cell subsets have distinct metabolic…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Pre-Transplant IgM to Post-Transplant IgG DSA Conversion May Be Affected by Immunosuppression.

    A. Nguyen,1 M. Everly,1 L. Rebellato,2 C. Haisch,2 K. Briley,2 P. Bolin,2 S. Kendrick,2 C. Morgan,2 A. Maldonado,2 P. Terasaki.1

    1Terasaki Foundation Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA; 2East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

    Post-transplant (tx) IgG donor-specific antibodies (DSA), but not IgM DSA has been identified as one of the major causes of late graft loss. Considering the…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    C1-Inhibitor in Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection Non-Responsive to Conventional Therapy in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Pilot Study.

    C. Lefaucheur,1 D. Viglietti,1 C. Gosset,1 A. Loupy,2 A. Zeevi,3 D. Glotz.1

    1Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France; 2Necker Hospital, Paris, France; 3University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh.

    The use of complement inhibitors in the treatment of acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) has not been thoroughly evaluated. We performed a prospective, single-arm, pilot study…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    CoCl2 Induced ER Stress Protein Mediated Cytotoxicity in FK506 Treated Hepatoma HepG2 Cells.

    S. Choi, S. Chung.

    Surgery, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea; Surgery, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

    Background; The effects of FK506 on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) mediated stress pathway accelerates CoCl2 - induced cytotoxicity in human hepatoma HepG2 cell line were…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Comparison of Once-Daily and Twice-Daily Low-Dose Tacrolimus in Living Related Kidney Transplantation – Prospective Trial of Once-Daily vs. Twice-Daily Tac – 5 Years Second Report.

    T. Tsuchiya, H. Ishida, T. Nozaki, H. Shirakawa, T. Shimizu, K. Omoto, M. Okumi, K. Tanabe.

    Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.

    Background; Previously, we reported a comparison of the safety and pharmacokinetics between a prolonged-release formulation of Tacrolimus (Tac-QD) and twice-daily tacrolimus (Tac-BD) in the early…
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