Articles tagged "Ischemia"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Risk Factors for Adverse Clinical Outcomes amongst Renal Transplant Candidates Undergoing Screening Angiography for Coronary Artery Disease
M. Shah¹, A. Yung¹, J. Ebinger¹, J. Mirocha², E. Huang³, D. Geft¹, A. Peng³, B. Azarbal¹
¹Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³Department of Nephrology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Patient’s with ESRD undergoing evaluation for kidney transplantation routinely undergo screening for coronary artery disease (CAD). Screening recommendations in this population differ between ACC/AHA…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Hepatic Steatosis on Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Induced Acute Kidney Injury in Mice
T. Nikumbh¹, N. Biswas², A. Das², C. K. Sen², S. Kubal¹
¹Transplant Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, ²ICRME, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*Purpose: Livers with mild to moderate steatosis have been used to expand the donor pool for transplantation. However, livers with steatosis have a propensity for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
In-Depth Assessment of Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in a Murine Model of Hindlimb Transplantation
F. Messner¹, K. Kadono², Y. Guo¹, B. Oh¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski², G. Brandacher¹
¹Department of Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Surgery, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Static cold storage (SCS) still represents the gold standard for organ and tissue preservation in transplantation. Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) that occurs due to the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor Intervention and Recipient Treatment with Recombinant Human C1 Inhibitor Prevents Delayed Graft Function in a Non-Human Primate Model of Kidney Transplantation
J. A. Reyes¹, C. Blanton¹, M. Eerhart¹, P. Chlebeck¹, M. Springer¹, Y. Ponstein², E. van Amersfoort², J. Torrealba³, Y. Yankol¹, A. D'Allessandro¹, L. Fernandez¹
¹Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, ²Pharming Technologies BV, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Pathology, UT Soutwestern, Dallas, TX
*Purpose: There is currently no FDA-approved treatment to prevent delayed graft function (DGF) in kidney transplantation. We have shown that donor or recipient treatment with…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Significance of Donor Gender on Graft Survival and Histological Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Liver Transplant Patients
T. Ito, S. Kageyama, K. J. Dery, K. Nakamura, S. M. Younan, M. M. Lu, J. DiNorcia III, V. G. Agoian, H. Yersis, D. G. Farmer, R. W. Busuttil, F. M. Kaldas
Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Experimental animal models have demonstrated improved ability of females (F) to recover from ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) compared with males (M). Recent work combining human…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Treprostinil is Safe and Potentially Useful in Preventing Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Adult Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients
R. Venkataramanan¹, I. H. Shaik², V. C. Pillai³, O. A. Almazroo⁴, M. K. Miah⁵, R. Xu², S. Dharmayan², A. Al-Khafaji², S. Ganesh², M. Molinari², A. Tevar², C. Hughes², A. Humar²
¹School Of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³US Food and Drug Administration,, Silver Spring, MD, ⁴Saudi FDA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁵Astra Zeneca, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Ischemia and reperfusion injury (IRI) is one of the unavoidable complications in orthotopic liver transplantion. Hepatic ischemic injury begins during the preservation of the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Prolonged Cold Ischemia Increases Reactive Oxygen Species Activates Autophagy by Enhancing Glycolysis in the Graft Through the mTOR Signaling Pathway in Orthotopic Lung Transplantation of Rats
H. Lin¹, S. Dai², W. Liu³, X. Lin², B. Yu², S. Chen³, S. Liu², J. Tang²
¹Thoracic Surgery, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China, ²Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, ³Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
*Purpose: The aim of the present study is to investigate the mechanisms by which prolonged CI influences the autophagy in the graft lung, in which…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Nlrp3 Inhibition Improves Heart Graft Function in Donation after Circulatory Death
S. Toldo, E. Mezzaroma, M. Quader
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors have the potential to increase the number of transplantable hearts, which today relies only on donation after brain…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Monocyte HDAC6 Expression and Risk of Primary Graft Dysfunction in Clinical Lung Transplant Recipients
T. Akimova¹, T. Zhang¹, L. Wang¹, J. D. Christie², W. W. Hancock¹
¹Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Lung transplantation (Tx) in ~30% of cases is subject to primary graft dysfunction (PGD), the severe acute lung injury that occurs within 72 hours…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ferroptotic Cell Death During Cold Storage is Essential in Liver Transplant Injury
H. Kojima, S. Kageyama, K. Kadono, H. Hirao, K. J. Dery, T. Ito, K. Nakamura, R. W. Busuttil, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski
The Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Center, Department of Surgery, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: It has been reported that activation of apoptosis signaling-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1)/p-p38 axis during tissue cold storage results in ferroptotic cell death. Ferroptosis is…