Articles tagged "Inflammation"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Clinically Evident Portal Hypertension (CEPH) is Associated with Low IGF-1 in Children with Chronic Liver Disease
B. Whitehead¹, S. Mohammad¹, S. Kelly¹, J. Josefson², L. Mithal³, E. M. Alonso¹
¹Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Division of Endocrinology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ³Division of Infectious Disease, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Children with chronic liver disease exhibit growth hormone resistance which is an additional risk factor for sarcopenia and growth failure in this vulnerable population.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor Kidney-Resident Macrophages Promote Allograft Inflammation and CD8 T Cell Response Post-Transplantation
A. Dangi¹, S. Yu², I. Husain¹, R. Geesala¹, X. Luo¹
¹Nephrology, Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Division of Organ Transplantation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: Kidney-resident macrophages play important roles in maintaining normal kidney function and promoting prompt repair following kidney injuries. Nevertheless, their fate and role in kidney…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Ex Situ Heart Perfusion and Standard of Care Cold Storage Differentially Affect the Ischemic Secretome of Donor Hearts in Perfusates but Not the Reperfusion Response in Recipient Plasma
E. Chichelnitskiy¹, B. Wiegmann², N. Ledwoch¹, F. Ius², F. Wandrer¹, J. Kühne¹, K. Beushausen¹, J. Keil¹, S. V. Rojas², W. Sommer², C. Kühn², I. Tudorache², M. Avsar², A. Haverich², G. Warnecke², C. S. Falk¹
¹MHH, Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover, Germany, ²MHH, Department for Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover, Germany
*Purpose: Various allograft preservation procedures influence the donor organ status that may be reflected by the cytokine/chemokine microenvironment in heart transplant (HTx) recipients. In addition,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Myeloid Foxo1-β-catenin Axis Regulates Hedgehog/Gli1 Signaling and Controls NLRP3-Mediated Innate Immune Responses in Sterile Inflammatory Liver Injury
D. Xu, C. Li, M. Sheng, Y. Lin, Y. Tian, Y. Zhan, A. J. Coito, R. W. Busuttil, D. G. Farmer, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski, B. Ke
Surgery, Dumont - UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Foxo1 plays important roles in cell metabolism, oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis. Activation of Hedgehog/Gli1 signaling regulates cell growth, differentiation, and immune function. However,…
2021 American Transplant Congress
CHBP Induces Stronger Immunosuppressive CD127⁺ M-MDSC via Erythropoietin Receptor
C. Yang
Urology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
*Purpose: Erythropoietin (EPO) is not only an erythropoiesis hormone, but also an immune regulatory cytokine. The receptors of EPO, (EPOR)2 and tissue protective receptor (TPR),…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Peripheral Blood Inflammatory Chemokines Uncover Rejection in the Absence of Histological Lesions
E. Van Loon¹, T. Barba², B. Lamarthée¹, A. Senev¹, O. Thaunat², D. Schols³, M. Naesens¹
¹Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Department of Transplantation, Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, Edouard Herriot Hospital Lyon, Lyon, France, ³Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: Cytokines and chemokines play a critical role in the pathophysiology of allograft rejection, but the relation of peripheral blood cytokine expression profiles to clinical…
2021 American Transplant Congress
IL-10 Signaling in T Cells Modulates Costimulation-independent Activation and is Essential for Transplant Tolerance Induction
M. Iglesias Lozano¹, D. Bibicheff¹, M. Chicco², A. Komin¹, G. Brandacher¹, G. Raimondi¹
¹Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Costimulation blockade (CoB)-based immunotherapy remains a very promising approach for better management of transplant recipients. Understanding the mechanisms that impact the efficacy of CoB…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Propensity Matched Analysis of Death and Non-favorable Discharge Among Hospitalized Transplant Recipients with COVID-19
J. T. Swan¹, E. Rizk², S. L. Jones¹, N. Nwana¹, J. C. Nicolas¹, A. Tran¹, T. Nisar¹, T. Menser¹, S. G. Yi², L. W. Moore¹, A. O. Gaber², R. J. Knight²
¹Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, ²Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*Purpose: This study compared death and non-favorable discharge following a hospital admission for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) management for patients with a history of solid…
2021 American Transplant Congress
HLA Mismatching and Subclinical Inflammation: An Association to be Considered in Kidney Transplant Patients with Low Immunological Risk
T. Vazquez-Sanchez¹, J. Alonso-Titos¹, P. Ruiz-Esteban¹, A. Caballero², M. Leon³, V. Lopez¹, E. Sola¹, D. Hernández¹
¹Nephrology, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA). Hospital Universitario Regional de Málaga and University of Málaga. REDinREN (RD16/0009/0006). Málaga. (Spain), Málaga, Spain, ²Immunology, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA). Hospital Universitario Regional de Málaga and University of Málaga. REDinREN (RD16/0009/0006). Málaga. (Spain), Málaga, Spain, ³Pathology, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA). Hospital Universitario Regional de Málaga and University of Málaga. REDinREN (RD16/0009/0006). Málaga. (Spain), Málaga, Spain
*Purpose: Subclinical inflammation (SCI) (
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of COVID-19 on Solid Organ Transplantation
E. Sampson¹, S. Hall², K. Robichaux³, A. Kumar², N. Kemmer⁴, J. Buggs⁵
¹Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tampa, FL, ²Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ³Honors College, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁴Transplant Hepatology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL, ⁵Transplant Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
*Purpose: Patterns of racial disparities have been identified throughout the history of American medicine. In December 2019, COVID-19 was first detected and has had a…

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