Articles tagged "IVIG"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Treatment Modality and Outcomes of Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients: The PARAMOUr Study
R. Engen¹, A. Jain², N. Hayde³, A. Mansuri⁴, M. Kallash⁵, S. McEwen⁶, R. Garro⁷, C. Peterson⁸, R. Zahr⁹, L. Harshman¹⁰, D. Puliyanda¹¹, S. Solomon¹², K. Twombley¹³, I. Ashoor¹⁴
¹Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, ²Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, ³Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁴Augusta University, Augusta, GA, ⁵The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁶University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ⁷Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ⁸University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁹The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ¹⁰University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ¹¹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ¹²New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, ¹³Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁴Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is the leading cause of graft failure in kidney transplantation, but evidence for effective treatments is limited.*Methods: PARAMOUr is a retrospective…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Desensitization Protocol to Prevent Severe Oliguric Antibody-Mediated Rejection
H. Ishida¹, K. Unagami¹, T. Kamzawa¹, K. Omoto¹, H. Shimizu¹, K. Tanabe²
¹Tokyo Womens, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan, ²Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
*Purpose: Antibody-mediated rejection in a case with a positive crossmatch test can be severe and result in sudden onset of oliguria and sometimes, anuria, leading…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Antibody-Mediated Kidney Allograft Rejection (ABMR) Monitoring and Intervention Based on ABMR Subtypes – A Step Towards Precision Diagnosis and Management
A. Rizvi¹, S. Hussain², M. Kueht³, J. Fair³, A. Gamilla-Crudo⁴, M. Mujtaba⁴
¹Internal Medicine, Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ²University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX, ³Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, ⁴University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: The monitoring of kidney allograft for early detection of antibody mediated rejection (ABMR) and subsequent intervention using traditional clinical parameters has been insufficient due…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Noroviral Diarrhea in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Characteristics, Interventions and Outcomes
S. N. Nair, A. Bhaskaran, A. Chandorkar, L. Fontana, K. Obeid
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: Norovirus may result in significant morbidity in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. There is limited evidence for therapeutics beyond supportive care for the management…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Treatment of BK Virus with Weekly Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients
G. Girone¹, W. Asch²
¹Department of Pharmacy, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, ²Section of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: The typical management of Polyoma BK virus (BKV) in kidney transplant recipients (KTR) includes reducing immunosuppression (IS). Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has been utilized for…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Desensitization Utilizing Intravenous Immune-Globulin and Tocilizumab: A Single Center Experience
I. Moinuddin, M. Miles, S. Sterling, A. Brown, P. Kimball, G. Gupta
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: Highly sensitized end stage kidney disease patients face a huge barrier to transplant due to lack of effective pre-transplant desensitization therapies. Various strategies have…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Variable Course of Hepatitis A Virus Infection in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
A. Vostal¹, J. Husson², A. Shishido¹, N. Jakhete³, E. Moore⁴, X. Wen⁵, A. Amoroso², R. Meier⁶, E. Wilson², K. K. Saharia²
¹Div. of Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, ²Div. of Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine and Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, ³Div. of Hepatology, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Dept of Surgery, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, ⁵Dept. of Surgery, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, ⁶Dept. of Surgery, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is typically a self-limited disease in immunocompetent individuals, the natural history and viral kinetics of HAV in solid…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Treatment of Bk Virus With Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Pediatric Kidney Transplant
D. Mohammad, D. Kim, R. Baracco, G. Kapur, A. Jain
Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Services, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: To study the prevalence of BK viremia (BKV) and BK Virus Nephropathy (BKVN) utilizing plasma BK quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) and report outcomes…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Antibody-mediated Allograft Rejection: A Retrospective Study
A. Al Jurdi¹, L. Goldfarb¹, M. Lafargue², J. Azzi³, L. V. Riella¹
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, ²Université de Paris, Paris, France, ³Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The optimal regimen for treating acute and chronic antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in kidney transplant recipients has yet to be established. The purpose of the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Intravenous Immunoglobulin Protects Liver Allograft from Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Human Liver Transplantation
S. Yokota, J. C. Alonso-Escalante, R. P. Tindall, K. R. Tabar, L. Machado, T. Uemura, N. L. Thai
Department of Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury following prolonged cold storage has a significant impact on early and late human liver transplantation (LTx) outcomes. Prevention of I/R injury…

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