Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Is a Single Dose of Steroids in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Safe? – A Cohort Analysis
M. Nunez, C. Praglin, A. M. Torres, E. Agudelo, H. Braun, C. Huang, S. Syed, J. Roberts, G. Roll
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Steroids increase morbidity, and steroid avoidance (SA) has been studied in deceased donor liver transplant but, little is known about SA in living donor…
2022 American Transplant Congress
PSGL-1-mTOR-TIM3 Signaling in a Murine Model of Hindlimb Transplantation
K. Kadono¹, F. Messner², J. He², Y. Guo², B. Oh², G. Brandacher², J. Kupiec-Weglinski¹
¹UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Johns Hopkins UJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Peri-transplant tissue damage driven by innate-adaptive immune cascades resulting from ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major concern in vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA). Here, we…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Low T Cell Responsiveness in the Early Phase Of COVID-19 Associates with Progression to Severe Pneumonia in Kidney Transplant Recipients
M. Cremoni¹, S. Cuozzo¹, E. Martinuzzi², S. Barbosa², N. Ben Hassen¹, F. Massa³, E. Demonchy⁴, M. Durand⁵, O. Thaunat⁶, V. Esnault¹, M. Lequintrec⁷, S. Caillard⁸, N. Glaichenhaus², A. Sicard¹
¹Service de Néphrologie, Dialyse, Transplantation rénale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France, ²CNRS, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Valbonne, France, ³Université Côte d'Azur, Laboratoire de Physio-Médecine Moléculaire, Nice, France, ⁴Service d'Infectiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France, ⁵Service d'Urologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France, ⁶Service de Transplantation rénale, Néphrologie et Immunologie clinique, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, ⁷Service de Néphrologie, Dialyse, Transplantation rénale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France, ⁸Service de Néphrologie et Transplantation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
*Purpose: Kidney transplant (KT) recipients are more prone to developing life-threatening forms of COVID-19 than the general population. Little is known about the immunological mechanisms…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Neurological Side Effects from Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplant Recipients
C. Hurt¹, G. J. Greene¹, J. Friedewald², D. P. Ladner², A. Waterman³, D. Cella¹, D. Peipert¹
¹Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, ³Department of Surgery and J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Though kidney transplant is the optimal treatment for most individuals with end stage kidney disease, recipients experience significant side effects associated with their required…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Immunosuppressive Medications on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Response in Kidney Transplant Patients
O. Sogbein¹, A. Rizvi², M. Mujtaba³, M. Kueht⁴, J. Fair⁴, A. Gamilla-Crudo³, S. Hussain⁵
¹Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²Internal Medicine, Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, ³University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ⁴Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ⁵University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX
*Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic portends significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised individuals. Vaccination against COVID-19 among immunocompromised population is an essential step to minimize deadly…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Recipient and Grafts Outcomes in Simultaneous Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation with Steroid Avoidance in the United States
A. Cerise¹, A. Dinesh², V. Humphreville², S. Jackson³, R. Kandaswamy², S. Riad⁴
¹Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN, ²Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Analytics, MHealth-Fairview, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴Medicine, University of Minnesota, Eden Prairie, MN
*Purpose: Steroid avoidance in kidney transplantation has been proven non-inferior. Data on steroid avoidance in simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) is scant.*Methods: We utilized the Scientific Registry…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Use of Dd-cfdna to Guide Tapering of Immunosuppression Therapy in Kidney Transplant Recipients
G. Osuchukwu¹, A. Trevino¹, L. Beretich², S. McCormick², N. Kaur², R. White², P. Gauthier²
¹Victoria Kidney and Dialysis Associates, Victoria, TX, ²Natera, Inc., Austin, TX
*Purpose: Continuous administration of immunosuppressive therapy (IST) is required to avoid allograft rejection in transplant recipients. However, these therapeutic interventions can lead to significant side…
2022 American Transplant Congress
How Does Anti-CD38 Antibody Treatment (Daratumumab) Impact Immunological Assessment in Solid Organ Transplantation?
S. Ho¹, K. Putnam², C. Peiter², W. Herczyk², J. Gerlach³, E. Campagnaro⁴, Y. Lu⁴, K. Woodside⁴, M. Cusick⁴
¹Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL, ²Gift of Life Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, ⁴University of Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: We report the first case of Dara interference of routine pre-transplant (Tx) crossmatch (XM) repeatedly causing aberrant false positives which inadvertently delayed Tx for…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Antibody Mediated Rejection in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients: Practice Patterns, Report from the Paramour “Pediatric Renal AMR Outcomes” Study
N. Hayde¹, K. Twombley², I. Ashoor³, R. Engen⁴, L. Harshman⁵, R. Zahr⁶, C. Peterson⁷, S. McEwen⁸, A. Jain⁹, R. Garro¹⁰, M. Kallash¹¹, A. Mansuri¹², D. Puliyanda¹³
¹Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, ²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ³LCMCHealth, New Orleans, LA, ⁴Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, ⁵University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Iowa City, IA, ⁶Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Nashville, TN, ⁷University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁸University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁹Wayne State, Troy, MI, ¹⁰Emory Universtiy, Atlanta, GA, ¹¹The Ohio State, Columbus, OH, ¹²Augusta University Medical Center, Augusta, GA, ¹³Cedars-Sinai Med Ctr, West Hollywood, CA
*Purpose: There is insufficient data on children with AMR in the literature, and the optimal therapy for AMR is not well defined. We aim to…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Implementing Clinical Decision Support Tools for Immunosuppressant Drug-Drug Interactions to Prevent Graft Failure
A. Yishak¹, S. Ledan², S. Mukherjee³, C. Chen², A. Ayoola², T. Kim², A. Olenik², K. Mullican², A. Henje², N. Lorence², L. Beckman²
¹MAPMG, Mc Lean, VA, ²Kaiser Permanente, Silver Spring, MD, ³MAPMG, Rockville, MA
*Purpose: Immunosuppressant drug-drug interactions can result in immunosuppressant toxicity or subtherapeutic levels causing rejection. If not identified and managed appropriately, these interactions may result in…

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