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Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Comparison of T Regulatory (Treg) Cell Function Pre- and Post-Lung Transplantation Shows a Major Negative Impact of Immunosuppression on Treg Function

    T. Akimova,1 J. Diamond,2 D. Wilkes,3 D. Lederer,4 J. Christie,2 W. Hancock.1

    1Path & Lab Med, CHOP & UPenn, Philadelphia; 2Pulm, Allergy & Crit Care Med, UPenn, Philadelphia; 3Med, Microbiol & Immunol, Indiana Uni Sch of Med & Thoracic Transplant Prog, Indianapolis; 4Medicine, Columbia Uni, New York.

    Aim: Clinical lung Tx recipients do not have sustained long-term survival outcomes comparable to that of other recipients of solid organ allografts, despite generally comparable…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Stable and Unstable Chimerism During Immunosuppressive Drug Withdrawal in Tolerant Recipients of HLA Matched Combined Kidney and Hematopoietic Cell Transplants

    T. Pham,1 S. Busque,1 J. Scandling,2 J. Shizuru,2 S. Asha,1 S. Strober.2

    1Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; 2Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

    Our previous studies showed that 75-80% of HLA matched recipients of combined kidney and hematopoietic cell transplants conditioned with total lymphoid irradiation (TLI) and anti-thymocyte…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Everolimus and Early Calcineurin Inhibitor Withdrawal Is Associated With Superior Renal Function: 5-Year Follow-Up of the Randomized PROTECT Liver Transplantation Study

    M. Sterneck, G. Kaiser, N. Heyne, N. Richter, F. Rauchfuss, A. Pascher, P. Schemmer, L. Fischer, C. Klein, S. Nadalin, F. Lehner, U. Settmacher, D. Gotthardt, M. Loss, S. Ladenburger, P. Wimmer, M. Dworak, H. Schlitt.

    PROTECT Study Group, Novartis Pharma GmbH, Germany.

    Purpose: At the end of the 12-month (M) PROTECT core study (NCT00378014), de novo liver transplant recipients (LTxR) who switched from a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Proximal Tubular Dysfunction Is Common After the First Year of Kidney Transplantation

    G. Ensergueix,1 J. Allard,1 F. Saint-Marcoux,2 B. Marin,3 S. Bodeau,2 J.-C. Aldigier,1 P. Marquet,2 M. Essig.1

    1Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, University Hospital, Limoges, France; 2Pharmacology, Toxicology, University Hospital, Limoges, France; 3Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Methodology, University Hospital, Limoges, France.

    Background: After the initial period of kidney transplantation, the prevalence of proximal tubular dysfunction (PTD) and its consequences are unknown. The aim of this study…
  • 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…
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