2018 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Renal Transplants from Donors with Positive Blood or Urine Cultures
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate outcomes in renal transplant recipients who received organs from donors with positive blood or urine cultures.METHODS: We performed a retrospective, single-center study…2017 American Transplant Congress
Calibration of BK Virus Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing to the 1st WHO International Standard for BK Virus.
Significant inter-assay variability in the quantification of BK virus (BKV) DNA has limited the broad applicability of thresholds for the management of BKV infection in…2017 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Allocation with CMV Matching Reduces CMV Infection and Related Costs.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and shortened graft survival in kidney transplant recipients. Efforts to prevent CMV infection have traditionally…2017 American Transplant Congress
CMV-Specific CD4+ T Cells in CMV-IgG-Seronegative Individuals Protect from CMV Viremia Following Transplantation with a CMV-Seropositive Donor Kidney.
Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
A primary infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the major threats following transplantation of a CMV-IgG-seropositive donor organ into a CMV-IgG-seronegative individual. Therefore, prophylactic…2017 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Risks and Screening Deceased Organ Donors in the UK for Trypanosoma cruzi .
Background: In the UK, the Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs recommends discretionary T. cruzi antibody screening of donors with identified…2017 American Transplant Congress
Liver Transplantation Outcomes Using Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction in Patients with Autoimmune Hepatitis.
Transplantation Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Background: The use of rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) induction in high immunological risk patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) could lower the rejection rates after liver…2017 American Transplant Congress
Early Acute Cellular Rejection(eACR) as a Marker of Immunologic Competency Following Liver Transplantation(LT).
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Background:Historically eACR did not adversely impact patient survival(PS). Since infection(Ifx) is major cause of death(COD) among LT recipients, we hypothesized that eACR is marker of…2017 American Transplant Congress
De Novo DSA Positivity Is Associated with a Higher Rate of Post-Transplant Bacterial and Viral Infections.
Background: BK viremia has been shown to correlate with de novo anti-HLA DSA (dnDSA) in renal transplant patients. However, it is unknown if and how…2017 American Transplant Congress
Increased T Cell Exhaustion in Dialysis Patients.
Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Infection is a major complication post-transplantation. Evaluating the immune system prior to transplant may allow better optimization of immunosuppression dose. T cell exhaustion has been…2017 American Transplant Congress
Strongyloides Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Experience and Review of the Literature.
Background: Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) recipients are at risk for Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection syndrome and disseminated disease. Most cases are caused by reactivation of latent…
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