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Articles tagged "Immunosuppression"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    IL-33 Enhances the Ability of Dendritic Cells to Expand Human Regulatory T Cells.

    Y. Zhao,1 H. Zhang,1 L. Mathews,1 H. Turnquist,1,2 A. Thomson.1,2

    1Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; 2Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

    Introduction:The importance of increasing the number of regulatory T cells (Treg) relative to T effectors for the promotion of long-term experimental allograft survival/tolerance is well-established.…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Immunosuppression (IS) Withdrawal (ISW) After ATG and Rituximab in Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTR): RESTARRT Early Results (NCT01318915).

    B. Burrell,1 J. Bromberg,2 C. Hartono,3 A. Posselt,4 A. Naji,5 D. Kaufman,6 R. Redfield III,6 S. Kanaparthi,1 D. Ikle,7 K. Much,7 N. Bridges,8 L. Sun,1 A. Priore,8 M. DesMarais,1 K. Crisalli,9 S. Chandran,1 J. Markmann.9

    1ITN, Bethesda/San Francisco; 2UMD, Baltimore; 3Rogosin, New York; 4UCSF, San Francisco; 5UPenn, Philadelphia; 6UWisconsin, Madison; 7Rho, Chapel Hill; 8NIAID/NIH, Bethesda; 9MGH, Boston

    Growing evidence implicates B cells in transplant tolerance. RESTARRT is a 6-center ISW study in adult living-related-donor KTR receiving ATG induction and rituximab with a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Single-Center, Prospective, Open Label Pilot Study to Investigate the Effectiveness of Everolimus Associated with Mycophenolic Acid and Prednisone in Adult Patients Submitted to an Allograft Renal Transplant with Calcineurin Inhibitor Withdrawl on Week 16th.

    L. Giordano,1,2 M. Lasmar,1,2 H. Vianna,1,2 E. Lasmar.1,2

    1Renal Transplant Unit, Hospital Universitário Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 2Nephrology Department, Rede Mater Dei de Saúde, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Although CI have proven efficacy in kidney transplantation worldwide, they are drugs with nephrotoxic potential and may contribute to chronic renal allograft nephropathy. As a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    No Impact of One Year of Everolimus, as Compared to MPA, in the Reversal of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Elderly Renal Transplant Recipients – Preliminary Data from Then Everold Study.

    E. David-Neto,1 F. Agena,1 M. Furtado,2 A. Rodriges,2 J. Andrade,2 F. Lemos,1 F. Paula.1

    1Renal Transplantation Service, Hospital das Clinicas – University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 2Echocardiography Services, Hospital das Clinicas – University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    It has been suggested that mTor inhibitors may contribute to the reversal of myocardial hypertrophy after transplantation possibly due to its biological effects like enhanced…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Personalizing Immunosuppression with Molecular Phenotyping in Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

    M. Ningappa, C. Ashokkumar, Q. Sun, B. Higgs, K. Soltys, G. Bond, G. Mazariegos, R. Sindhi.

    Pediatric Abdominal Transplant, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh

    Background: Optimizing immunosuppression requires selecting an agent which can inhibit the dominant anti-rejection mechanism in individual children with liver transplantation (LTx). Extended use of steroids,…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Belatacept for Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation.

    D. Kumar,1 G. Gupta,1 J. Reeve,2 P. Sanghi,1 S. Bobba,1 M. Levy,1 C. Bhati,1 P. Kimball,1 H. Fattah,1 A. King,1 H. Massey,1 P. Halloran.2

    1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; 2Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Center, Edmonton, Canada

    Background: Chronic antibody mediated rejection (cAMR) is a major cause of long-term kidney transplant (KT) loss. Antibody or immune cell depletional therapies have unclear efficacy…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Long-Term Outcomes After Liver Transplantation (tx) with Everolimus (EVR) and Mycophenolic Acid (MPA) in a Calcineurin Inhibitor-Free Regimen: The CERTITUDE Trial.

    F. Saliba,1 C. Duvoux,2 S. Dharancy,3 J. Dumortier,4 Y. Calmus,5 F. Di Giambattista,6 F. Conti.5

    1AP-HP Hôpital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France; 2AP-HP Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France; 3CHRU de Lille, Lille, France; 4Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France; 5AP-HP Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France; 6Novartis Pharma SAS, Rueil-Malmaison, France

    Background. Long-term outcomes under EVR with MPA and no calcineurin inhibitor are undocumented after liver tx.Methods. CERTITUDE is a prospective, multicenter, observational study of liver…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Immunosuppressive Treatment Alters Gut Microbiota and Modified Gut Microbiota Affects Immune Status.

    Z. Zhang, Y. Xu, Q. Zhang, X. Hu.

    Department of Urology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, CCMU, Beijing, China

    Objectives: Immunosuppressive therapies could change the host-microbial interactions, especially gut microbiota, which is an important component in systemic immunity. We evaluated the relationship between immunosuppression…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Evaluating T Cell Repopulation Post Alemtuzumab Induction with a Belatacept-Based Regimen.

    V. Bendersky, H. Xu, A. Kirk.

    Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC

    We reported that alemtuzumab induction followed by belatacept-sirolimus based immunosuppression effectively prevents costimulation blockade resistant rejection (CoBRR). This study investigates the phenotypic characteristics of repopulating…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Induction Immunosuppression on the Recurrence of Primary IgA Nephropathy.

    K. Lee, C. Cho, N. Lee, K. Kim, S. Kim, J. Lee, J. Lee, H. Park, J. Park, S. Kim.

    Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

    PurposeIgA nephropathy (IgAN) may recur after kidney transplantation (KT) and potentially jeopardize the survival of the graft. The object of this study was to analyze…
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