2017 American Transplant Congress
Bariatric Surgery Prior to Living Kidney Donation: A Solution to Expand the Donor Pool.
Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Background: Living donor kidney donation rates have declined. Meanwhile, the number of morbidly obese people is increasing. They are frequently turned down for donation at…2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Outcomes Following Intestinal Transplantation.
Purpose: Single center study of Intestinal Transplant recipients to evaluate epidemiology of dialysis and renal transplantation(RT) following Intestinal transplantation(IT).Methods: 288 adult patients who underwent first…2017 American Transplant Congress
The New Kidney Allocation System in France Meets it's Targets: Improving Age and HLA DR-QD Matching for Young Adults.
Direction Medicale et Scientifique, Agence de la Biomedecine, Saint-Denis, France
A new KAS was implemented in France as of February 2015, resulting from an intensive 3 yrs-simulation work in interaction with KTx advisory committee and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Phase 3 Trial of Transplantation of Human Islets in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Post Renal Transplantation.
Introduction: From a risk-benefit perspective, patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who are already obligated to long-term immunosuppression to support a kidney transplant and who…2017 American Transplant Congress
Single Nuclear Polymorphisms of Complement Component 4 and Component 5 in Renal Transplant Recipients with Antibody-Mediated Rejection.
Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Background: Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is an important cause of allograft dysfunction in short-term and long-term period. The complement component 4 (C4) and component 5 (C5)…2017 American Transplant Congress
Successful Launch of an ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation Program to Overcome the Shortage of Compatible Living Donors: Experience at a Single Center.
Introduction:ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation (KT) is being increasingly performed to overcome donor shortages. However, debate persists regarding the post-transplant outcomes of ABOi KT versus that…2017 American Transplant Congress
Successful Utilization of Deceased Donor Kidney Allografts with KDPI>85: A Single Center Experience.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
In December 2014, UNOS implemented broad changes in the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS). Recent UNOS summary reports suggest that nationally, organ discard rates have…2017 American Transplant Congress
Validation of a Novel Computational Approach for Predicting HLA Immunogenicity Based on Quantification of Structural and Surface Electrostatic Potential Differences Between Donor and Recipient HLA.
Background: Our preliminary work indicates that donor HLA immunogenicity in kidney and haematopoietic stem cell transplantation can be predicted by comparative assessment of donor and…2017 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Cytokine Gene Polymorphism on Clinical Outcome of Renal Transplantation.
Cytokine production is subject to genetic regulation, in such a way that gene polymorphisms at the level of promoter or coding regions can alter their…2017 American Transplant Congress
Cost Effectiveness of Post-Prophylaxis Screening Strategies for Cytomegalovirus Viremia in CMV D+R- Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Purpose: To assess cost-effectiveness(CE) of screening for CMV after 6 months of valganciclovir prophylaxis in CMV high-risk (D+R-) kidney transplant recipients.Methods: A Markov model was…
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