2018 American Transplant Congress
Are Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) Kidneys Unsuitable for Pediatric Recipients?
Introduction: Despite the fact that the number of pediatric patients listed for kidney transplantation far exceeds the supply of deceased donor kidneys, there is a…2018 American Transplant Congress
Long Term Outcomes of Renal Allografts with De Novo DSA in the Setting of Stable Graft Function versus Acute Rejection
We sought to compare the long-term outcome of renal allograft recipients with de novo DSA (dnDSA) in the setting of stable allograft function versus dnDSA…2018 American Transplant Congress
Can Immunosuppression Maintenance after Renal Allograft Failure Prevent Further Sensitization?
University of Florida, Gainesville.
After renal graft failure, retransplantation(ReTx) becomes more difficult due to sensitization to alloantigens. In 2013, our center opened a specialty clinic to maintain immunosuppression(IS) after…2018 American Transplant Congress
Vesicoureteral Reflux after Kidney Transplantation Influences Long-Term Graft Survival
[Introduction] Post-transplant vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a complication of kidney transplantation (KT) causing graft interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy. However, risk factors for VUR or…2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Reactive Eomesderminhi CD8+ T Cells Are Significantly Upregulated Early after Transplant in Kidney Transplant Patients without Rejection
IntroductionMemory T cell responses play a critical role in the outcome of allo-transplantation. While the role of the T-box transcription factor Eomesodermin (Eomes) in the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Cell Free DNA Sequencing for Diagnosing Infections, Estimating Growth Rates, and Characterizing Antibiotic Resistomes in Urine Supernatants
1Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; 2Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
INTRODUCTION. We examined the utility of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) sequencing of urine supernatants in kidney transplant recipients for diagnosing rare and common urinary tract infections…2018 American Transplant Congress
Medullary Tissue Sampling in Renal Allograft Biopsy is More Sensitive for Pathologic Diagnosis of PVN
Background Post-transplant polyoma virus nephropathy (PVN) prevalence is 1-10%. Definitive PVN diagnosis requires polyoma virus presence in infected cells, done with immunohistochemical staining for SV40…2018 American Transplant Congress
Waitlist Survival is Approaching Survival after Kidney Transplantation
Abdominal Tranplantation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Backround: Kidney transplantation confers a significant survival benefit to its recipients. Our objective was to reassess this survival benefit in light of improving outcomes on…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Ambulatory Transplant Pharmacy Services on Outcomes and Readmissions in Adult Abdominal Transplant Recipients
1Northeastern University, Boston, MA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Over the past two decades, the role of transplant pharmacists (Txp Rx) has expanded following revised guidance from UNOS and CMS. There is little data…2018 American Transplant Congress
Intragraft MicroRNAs Foretell Fibrosis in Kidney Transplant Recipients
BackgroundIdentifying biomarkers that anticipate tubulointerstitial fibrosis (IFTA) of the kidney allograft will be a transformative advance.Aim/HypothesisIntragraft microRNA profile of 3-month surveillance biopsies reported as normal…
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