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Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Belatacept Utilization During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States

    M. MacConmara, A. Shubin, D. Wojciechowski, L. de Gregorio, J. Shah, P. Vagefi, C. S. Hwang

    Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Transplantation, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

    *Purpose: With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people in the United States were urged to stay at home. Kidney transplantation continued during this…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Racial Differences in Tacrolimus Xr Dosing in De Novo Kidney Transplant Recipients

    N. Patel, T. Carcella, F. Bartlett, V. Rohan, D. Taber

    Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: In May of 2020, our center was challenged with a nationwide shortage of tacrolimus IR, warranting implementation of a new de novo tacrolimus XR…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Effects of Timing of Everolimus Transition on Renal Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients

    M. Leick1, H. Belleau2, T. McCashland3

    1Nebraska Medicine, Omaha, NE, 2Bryan Health, Lincoln, NE, 3University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

    *Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of the timing of everolimus transition on renal outcomes in liver transplant recipients.*Methods: This…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Laminins Differentially Regulate Adaptive Alloimmune Responses

    L. Li1, M. Shirkey1, W. Piao1, Y. Xiong1, V. Saxena1, T. Zhang1, J. Iyyathurai2, R. Lakhan1, R. Abdi3, J. Bromberg1

    1Surgery, UMB, Baltimore, MD, 2CVID, UMB, Baltimore, MD, 3Harvard University, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: Lymph node (LN) stromal cell expressed laminin α4 (Lama4) and laminin α5 (Lama5) fibers are associated with tolerance and immunity, respectively. They regulate cell…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Selective Regulatory T Cell Expansion by a Novel IL-2 Mutein Prolongs Skin Transplant Survival in Mice

    T. J. Borges1, O. Effe1, R. B. Gassen1, A. Al Jurdi1, I. T. Lape1, G. J. Babcock2, S. M. Carlson2, J. C. Madsen1, L. V. Riella1

    1Center For Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, 2Visterra, Inc., Waltham, MA

    *Purpose: Long-term immunosuppression predisposes transplant patients to a greater risk of infection, malignancy and kidney toxicity. Hence, alternative methods to regulate the immune system are…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Myeloid YAP-HSF1 Signaling Inhibits NLRP3 Function and RIPK3-mediated Hepatocyte Necroptosis in Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury

    Y. Tian, D. Xu, M. Sheng, Y. Zhan, Y. Lin, C. Li, A. J. Coito, R. W. Busuttil, D. G. Farmer, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski, B. Ke

    Surgery, Dumont - UCLA Transplant Ctr, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Yes-associated protein (YAP), a downstream effector of the Hippo pathway, tightly regulates cell growth, survival, and tissue inflammation. Activation of heat shock factor 1…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Conversion from Tacrolimus to Envarsus in Rapid Metabolizers for Prevention of BK Infection

    G. Towns, G. Agarwal, C. Kew

    Transplant Nephrology, UAB, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: The incidence of BK virus infection is high among rapid metabolizers (RM) in kidney transplant (KT) patients. RM can be identified using validated and…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluation of Empiric Extended-Release Tacrolimus Dosing in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients

    C. Patel, S. Lee, D. M. Salerno, N. W. Lange, J. Hedvat

    Pharmacy, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

    *Purpose: Envarsus XR® (extended-release [XR] tacrolimus) is the standard of care tacrolimus formulation at our center for de novo maintenance immunosuppression in adult kidney transplant…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Benign Pneumatosis Intestinalis with Pneumoperitoneum in the Immunocompromised Patient: Three Cases

    A. Mohamed, K. Delvecchio, T. Kitajima, M. Rizzari, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, S. Nagai, J. Denny, M. Abouljoud

    Department of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

    *Purpose: Isolated pneumatosis intestinalis after solid organ transplantation, as well as its surgical management in appropriate clinical context, is a well described entity. The management…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Cypa5 Status on the Clinical and Financial Outcomes of Kidney Transplant

    J. Obayemi1, B. Keating2, K. Lentine3, M. Schnitzler3, H. Xiao3, V. Dharnidharka4, D. Axelrod5

    1Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, 4Washington Univ, Seattle, WA, 5Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    *Purpose: Pharmacogenetic profiling of transplant recipients has demonstrated marked variation in the metabolism of immunosuppressive medications, particularly tacrolimus. Patients of African ancestry have been found…
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