Articles tagged "Ischemia"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Common Feature of Injury in Donor Kidneys After Brain and Circulatory Death.
M. Lo Faro,¹ M. Akhtar,¹ H. Huang,¹ M. Kaisar,¹ R. Rebolledo,² K. Morten,¹ L. Heather,¹ A. Dona,³ H. Leuvenink,² S. Fuggle,¹ B. Kessler,¹ C. Pugh,¹ R. Ploeg.¹
¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; ²University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; ³University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The pro-coagulatory and pro-inflammatory environment in donors after brain death (DBD) and warm ischemia in donors after circulatory death (DCD) can cause injury to target…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Clinical Evaluation of the Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Continuous Infusion of Treprostinil to Prevent Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Adult Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients.
O. Almazroo,¹ M. Miah,¹ V. Pillai,¹ A. Humar,² A. Tevar,² C. Hughes,² A. AlKhafaji,³ A. Demetris,⁴ S. Dermont,² S. Fedorek,² H. Johnson,¹ R. Lopez,² R. Planinsic,² B. Sengupta,² I. Sethu,² M. Sturdevant,² S. Ziobert,¹ R. Venkataramanan.^1,2,4
¹Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Thomas Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ³Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ⁴Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Introduction:Liver transplantation is currently the only therapeutic option for patients with end stage liver diseases. Liver allografts undergo cold ischemic injury and warm reperfusion injury…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Role of Protease Activated Receptor 1 and Sphingosine-1-Phospate Receptor 1 in Mice Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury for Targeting Cell Signal Pathways of Activated Protein C.
T. Ito, N. Kuriyama, H. Kato, Y. Iizawa, A. Tanemura, Y. Murata, Y. Azumi, M. Kishiwada, S. Mizuno, M. Usui, H. Sakurai, S. Isaji.
Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan
Introduction: Hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a serious comlication during liver surgery. As for therapeutic strategies on hepatic IRI, we previously demonstrated that activated protein…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Mitigates Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Mice.
D. Murken,¹ D. Aufhauser Jr,¹ S. Concors,¹ Z. Wang,¹ G. Ge,¹ W. Hancock,² M. Levine.¹
¹Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction: Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) causes significant morbidity in liver transplantation and other surgical scenarios. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of IRI is required…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Autotransplantation of the Left Lung for the Treatment of Recurrent Life Threatening Pulmonary Hemorrhage Related to Pulmonary Vascular Malformation: A Unique Chance to Study Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury.
C. Falk,¹ I. Tudorache,² C. Müller,³ W. Sommer,² K. Daemen,¹ J. Keil,¹ G. Hansen,³ A. Haverich,² G. Warnecke,² N. Schwerk.³
¹Institute of Transplant Immunology, IFB-Tx, MHH, Hannover, Germany; ²Department of Cardiothoracic Transplant and Vascular Surgery, MHH, Hannover, Germany; ³Department of Pediatric Pneumology, MHH, Hannover, Deutschland, Germany
Background: Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) remains a major clinical problem in lung transplantation. Here, we report the investigation of IRI in a 17-year-old patient who…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Increased Ischemic Inflammation Induces Recipient Endogenous Memory CD4 Cell-Graft Dendritic Cell Interactions to Provide Help for Activation of Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cells.
H. Tsuda, T. Tanaka, C. Su, A. Valujskikh, R. Fairchild.
Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Memory T cells provide protection against recurrent pathogens, but memory T cells with donor-reactivity pose a major barrier to successful allograft transplant and tolerance induction.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Nox4 and Oxidative Stress Mediate TGF-β1 Induced Human Kidney Proximal Cell Apoptosis in Ischemic Reperfusion Injury.
S.-H. Yoon,¹ S. Cho,¹ D.-I. Kim,¹ S.-R. Yoon,¹ W.-M. Hwang,¹ S.-L. Yu,² J. Kang.²
¹Internal Medicine, Konyang University, Deajeon, Republic of Korea; ²Pharmacology, Konyang University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
AimsIschemia/reperfusion injury, resulting from hypoxic damage within a graft, is the leading cause of cell death and graft rejection. In this study, we investigated whether…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Isoflurane Precondition Alleviated Murine Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury by Restoring AMPK/mTOR-Mediated Autophagy.
Z. Rao,¹ H. Zhou,² X. Pan,¹ M. Gao,¹ Z. Wang,¹ J. Sun,¹ C. Liu,¹ Z. Ding.¹
¹Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; ²Department of Liver Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Background: Isoflurane has a pharmacological precondition effect against ischemia injury in the heart, kidney and brain, but whether and how isoflurane precondition protects livers against…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Direct Comparison of Hypothermic and Normothermic Organ Preservation in a Porcine Ex-Vivo Kidney Model.
N. Vallant,^1,2 B. Sandhu,¹ N. Wolfhagen,¹ C. Pusey,¹ V. Papalois.¹
¹Renal and Transplant Department, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; ²Department of Visceral-, Transplant- and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Background: Hypothermic machine perfusion is a well established method for deceased donor organ preservation as well as pre-transplant assessment and preconditioning. Recent translational and clinical…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury-Induced Innate Immune Signaling in Human Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.
R. Sosa,¹ A. Zarrinpar,² M. Rossetti,¹ C. Lassman,¹ B. Naini,¹ N. Datta,² R. Busuttil,² D. Gjertson,¹ J. Kupiec-Weglinski,^1,2 E. Reed.¹
¹Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; ²Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Background: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major risk factor in the development of acute and chronic graft rejection in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT); however, no…