2019 American Transplant Congress
Improving Medication Adherence and Outcomes in Adult Kidney Transplant Patients Using SystemCHANGETM: Results of the Medication Adherence Given Individual Change (MAGIC) Randomized Clinical Trial
*Purpose: Medication non-adherence is an obdurate problem associated with poor outcomes and staggering costs. Even with multi-faceted interventions, effect sizes reported in meta-analyses of medication…2019 American Transplant Congress
Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Activation Prolongs Survival of Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplants in a Murine Model
*Purpose: Transplantation of faces, hands, and limbs using vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) has faced significant challenges hindering its routine implementation in the clinic. One critical…2019 American Transplant Congress
Conversion from Tacrolimus Immediate Release to Tacrolimus Extended Release (Envarsus XR®): A Real World Cohort Highlighting Dosing Variability among Patients
*Purpose: Tacrolimus extended release (TacER) (Envarsus XR®) has become an attractive alternative to tacrolimus immediate release (TacIR) due to its once daily dosing scheme, favorable…2019 American Transplant Congress
Adverse Effect Differences between Tacrolimus-IR and LCP-Tacrolimus
*Purpose: Extended-release tacrolimus (Envarsus XR®, LCP-Tac) was approved in 2015 as conversion from tacrolimus immediate-release (Tac-IR) as part of the maintenance immunosuppression regiment post-kidney transplant.…2019 American Transplant Congress
Costs Associated with A2 to B Kidney Transplantation: A Barrier to Its Utilization?
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*Purpose: In 2014 the updated Kidney Allocation System (KAS) allowed for allocation of blood type A2 kidneys to B recipients in an effort to ameliorate…2019 American Transplant Congress
Store-Operated/Calcium Release Activated Calcium Channel Orai3 is a Novel Target for Immunoregulation
1WCMC, New York, NY, 2WCMC, Doha, Qatar
*Purpose: Store-operated/calcium release activated calcium (CRAC) channels are essential for the signaling of immune cells via calcineurin, a calcium-calmodulin dependent serine-threonine phosphatase. The central importance…2019 American Transplant Congress
Cidofovir for BK Nephropathy Rescue Treatment: A Single Center Experience
*Purpose: Cidofovir is a potentially nephrotoxic antiviral drug used primarily as a treatment for CMV retinitis however due to its potent antiviral effects has been…2019 American Transplant Congress
Anti-CD272 Antibody (6B2) Induced Indefinite Survival of Fully MHC-Mismatched Murine Cardiac Allograft
Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: The co-inhibitory receptor B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA; CD272) has been implicated in the regulation of autoimmune and may potentially play an important…2019 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Acute Rejection in Heart Transplantation on Post-Transplant Malignancy
*Purpose: Compared with the general population, an increased incidence of skin cancers and lymphomas have been shown in orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) recipients. However, the…2019 American Transplant Congress
Frailty Associated with Increased Rates of Acute Cellular Rejection within 3 Months after Liver Transplantation
*Purpose: Frailty, a state of decreased physiologic reserve and increased vulnerability to health stressors, has an inflammatory biologic basis and has been associated with dysregulation…
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