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Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Incidence and Risk Factors for Infectious Complications in Liver Transplant Patients Converted to Everolimus

    A. Islam,1 J. DeVos,2 L. Teeter,3 E. Graviss,3 S. Gordon-Burroughs,1 A. Saharia,1 C. Mobley,1 A. Gaber,1 R. Ghobrial.1

    1Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 2Department of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 3Department of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX.

    AIM:Immunosuppression with an mTOR inhibitor plus calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) minimization is increasingly used in liver transplantation to protect against the nephrotoxic and neurotoxic side effects…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Current Status of US Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation: An Analysis of the UNOS Intestine Transplant Registry

    J. Cai,1 A. Qing,2 G. Wu,3 M. Everly,1 P. Terasaki.1

    1Terasaki Foundation Lab, Los Angeles, CA; 2Lincoln High School, Stockton, CA; 3The 4th Military Medical University, Xi-An, China.

    The purpose of this study is to analyze the current status of US intestinal transplantation (IT). As of 9/19/2014, 2441 IT have been performed in…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Conversion to Belatacept After Kidney Transplantation Does Not Alter Immunophenotype

    M. Matz,1 K. Fabritius,1 C. Lorkowski,1 J. Liu,1 S. Brakemeier,1 N. Unterwalder,2 H.-H. Neumayer,1 K. Budde.1

    1University Medicine Charité, Berlin, Germany; 2Labor Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

    Belatacept offers a new option for renal allograft recipients who are suffering from side effects of calcineurin inhibitor or mTOR. Such a conversion may result…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Immune Phenotyping of Peripheral Blood Samples from the CTOT-10 Belatacept Study

    Y. Suessmuth,1 L. Stempora,1 B. Johnson,1 J. Cheeseman,1 Y. Morrison,4 N. Bridges,4 D. Ikle,5 S. Tomlanovich,3 P. Stock,3 R. Mannon,2 K. Newell,1 C. Larsen,1 A. Mehta.1

    1Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta; 2University of Alabama, Birmingham; 3University of California San Francisco, San Francisco; 4NIAID/ NIH, Bethesda; 5Rho, Chapel Hill, NC.

    The purpose of the CTOT-10 study is to evaluate belatacept as maintenance therapy, while minimizing calcineurin inhibitors and corticosteroids in renal transplantation. We designed mechanistic…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Safety and Efficacy of Conversion from Conventional Twice Daily Tacrolimus to Once Daily Extended Release Tacrolimus in Stable Pancreas Transplant (SPK and PAK) Recipients

    M. Dib, A. Barbas, M. Marquez, J. Laurence, G. Sapisochin, A. Norgate, J. Schiff, I. McGilvray, P. Greig, M. Selzner, M. Cattral.

    Surgery, Multi-Organ Transplant, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Background: A once-daily, modified-release oral formulation of tacrolimus has been developed to simplify dosing and improve medication adherence. There is limited data on the implementation…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Pyridoxine Deficiency After Solid Organ Transplant

    S. Van Arsdale,1 S. Yost,2 M. Meer,1 S. Schoentag,1 P. Kadambi,3 S. Habib.3

    1Department of Nutrition Services, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, AZ; 2Department of Pharmacy, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, AZ; 3Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ.

    BackgroundMicronutrient deficiencies have been discussed in the literature regarding post-transplant recipients. A proposed theory is that immunosuppressive medications or altered immune system cause pyridoxine deficiency…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Pharmacokinetics of Everolimus (EVL) in Elderly Recipients Under Low-Tacrolimus(TAC)/Everolimus in the First Year After Renal Transplantation. Data from the NEverOLd Trial

    E. David-Neto,1 P. Romano,2 F. Agena,1 P. Ebner,2 A. Triboni,1 F. Ramos,1 N. Galante,1 F. Lemos.1

    1Renal Transplantation Service, Hospital das Clinicas – University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2Division of Central Laboratory, Hospital das Clinicas – University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Elderly ( >60 years) recipients are being renal transplanted more frequently. The pharmacokinetics studies (PK) of immunosuppressive drugs in healthy volunteers, rarely, if ever, include…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Mycophenolate Dose Reductions Contribute to Suboptimal Graft Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients

    K. Boyle, J. Fleming, D. Taber, K. Covert, J. Casale, C. Staino, N. Pilch, C. Mardis, H. Meadows, T. Srinivas, J. McGillicuddy, K. Chavin, C. Bratton, P. Baliga.

    Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

    The purpose of this study was to analyze outcomes in patients with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) dose reductions below doses proven to prevent rejection in a…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    In Vivo Expansion of Donor-Specific Regulatory T Cells by a New Triazolopyrimidine Derivative and Donor-Specific Transfusion

    S. Emoto,1 R. Goto,1 S. Shibasaki,1 A. Nagatsu,1 H. Ono,1 R. Igarashi,1 M. Fukai,2 T. Shimamura,3 K. Saiga,4 M. Murakami,5 A. Taketomi,1 S. Todo,6 K. Yamashita.2

    1Gastroenterological Surgery 1, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; 2Transplant Surgery, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; 3Division of Organ Transplantation, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; 4Nippon Kayaku, Tokyo, Japan; 5Institute for Genetic Medecine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; 6Research Institute, St. Mary Hospital, Kurume, Japan.

    Background: We have previously demonstrated that a new triazolopyrimidine derivative, NK026680 (NK) prevents activation/maturation of dendritic cells. This study investigated whether NK together with donor-specific…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    TIM-4 Identifies IL-17 Expressing Pro-Inflammatory Be-17 Cells That Promote Allograft Rejection

    Q. Ding, K. Mohib, D. Rothstein.

    Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

    We identified TIM-1 as an inclusive marker for IL-10+ regulatory B cells (TIM-1+ Bregs), which prolong islet allograft survival (GS). We recently found that TIM-4,…
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