Articles tagged "Kidney transplantation"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Steadily Dropping Malignancy Rates after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation Have Now Reversed in the Most Recent Era: A Report of the North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies (NAPRTCS)
V. Dharnidharka¹, C. Cramer², A. Chua³, A. Moudgil⁴, K. Martz⁵, T. Blydt-Hansen⁶, J. Smith⁷, A. Neu, on behalf of the NAPRTCS Investigators⁸
¹Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁴Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, ⁵Emmes Corporation, Rockville, MD, ⁶BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁷Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ⁸Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In general, malignancies are very rare in children, compared to older adults. The NAPRTCS registry has collected data on children receiving kidney transplants in…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Allografts Induce Systemic Tolerance of Heart Allografts and is Dependent on Foxp3+ Cells
C. Yang¹, J. Ge¹, P. S. Russell¹, J. C. Madsen¹, A. Alessandrini¹, R. B. Colvin²
¹Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: We have successfully achieved cardiac allograft tolerance in both pigs and NHP by donor kidney co-transplantation. The mechanism of Kidney Induced Cardiac Allograft Tolerance…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Glomerulitis at 4-Month Biopsy on Long Term Kidney Allograft Outcomes
M. Whigham, G. Mour, M. Buras, S. Sukumaran Nair, A. Jaramillo, D. Ramon, R. Heilman
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Antibody mediated rejection (AMR) is diagnosed based on combination of elevated creatinine, histopathological findings defined as glomerulitis (g), and peritubular capillaritis (ptc), with or…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes of Eculizumab-Treated Positive Crossmatch Recipients: Allograft Survival, Histologic Findings, and Natural History of the Donor-Specific Antibodies
C. Schinstock, A. Bentall, S. Byron, L. Cornell, M. Everly, M. Gandhi, M. Stegall
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: We aimed to determine long-term outcomes for eculizumab-treated, positive crossmatch (+XM) kidney transplant recipients as compared with +XM and age-matched negative crossmatch (−XM) control…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Persistent Mixed Chimerism, Immune Reconstitution, and Tolerance in Recipients of HLA Matched Kidney and Hematopoietic Cell Transplants
S. Busque, J. Scandling, R. Lowsky, J. Shizuru, E. Meyer, K. Jensen, A. Shori, R. Hoppe, E. Engleman, T. Pham, S. Strober
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: We evaluated the immune reconstitution of recipients of HLA matched combined kidney and hematopoietic cell transplants after tolerance induction*Methods: Twenty nine recipients of living…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy and Safety with Empagliflozin in Renal Transplant Recipients with Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus
K. E. Kvitne¹, T. S. Halden², A. Åsberg², K. Midtvedt², A. Hartmann², T. Jenssen²
¹Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, ²Department of Transplantation Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
*Purpose: Post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is a highly prevalent condition following renal transplantation, associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and impaired patient survival. Sodium-glucose…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Solving Target Recognition and Activation Mediated by Non-HLA Agonistic Antibodies Targeting ETAR
A. Philippe¹, R. Catar¹, P. Scheerer², M. Szczepek², D. Dragun¹
¹Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
*Purpose: Endothelin-1 type A receptor (ETAR) exhibits multiligand binding abilities and may signal upon natural ligand Endothelin-1 (ET-1) and non-HLA ETAR-agonistic IgG (ETAR-IgG)-mediated stimulation similar…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Increase in Deceased Donor Acceptance Rate After Implementing Uniform Acceptance Criteria
C. Klein, T. Ommert, J. Hundley, J. Lizcano, A. Ray, R. Cross, K. Payne
Piedmont Transplant Institute, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Over 100,000 candidates are listed for kidney transplant in the United States, yet less than 20,000 patients are transplanted annually. In 2013, over 2,500…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Is Kidney Transplantation Actually a Cost-Effective Alternative Also for Older Patients?
K. Heldal¹, K. Lønning², V. Tsarpali¹, K. Midtvedt²
¹Clinic of Internal Medicine, Telemark Hospital Trust, Skien, Norway, ²Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
*Purpose: We aimed to study the health economic effects of kidney transplantation in a population of kidney transplant candidates > 65 years of age.*Methods: We…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Using Ensembles of Machine Learning Classifiers to Maximize the Accuracy and Stability of Molecular Biopsy Interpretation
J. Reeve¹, K. S. Madill-Thomsen², P. F. Halloran and the INTERCOMEX Study Group³
¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ²Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, AB, Canada, ³University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, AB, Canada
*Purpose: The Molecular Microscope diagnostic system (MMDx), based on microarray gene expression, uses ensembles of machine learning classifiers rather than single genes, gene sets, or…