2016 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Anxiety Following Live Kidney Donation.
Few studies have explored post-donation anxiety (PA) for live kidney donors. Donors who are younger, who develop post-op kidney-related morbidities, who are divorced, and who…2016 American Transplant Congress
Peer Mentoring to Improve Access to Kidney Transplantation in the Southeast.
BACKGROUND The Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition's (SEKTC) mission is to improve the low kidney transplantation (KTx) rate in the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Treatment of Borderline Lesion in Protocol Biopsies Did Not Improve the Outcome in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Introduction. Up to 30% of patients with protocol biopsies and stable renal function have borderline lesions. His relationship with acute rejection remains uncertain, as does…2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Pediatric en Bloc Kidney (PeB) Grafts After Loss of a Single Kidney.
Division of Transplantation, Dept of Surgery, Univ of Calif Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.
Background: Transplantation (Tx) of PeB kidney grafts has been shown to result in good long-term outcomes. However, the fate of PeB grafts that suffer loss…2016 American Transplant Congress
Initial Experience with Donor Specific Tregs in Kidney Transplantation.
Systematic multicenter clinical evaluation of regulatory cells is being conducted by the EU supported ONE Study trial in which each site is administering a different…2016 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus with Low-Dose Tacrolimus vs. a Standard Immunosuppressive Regimen: Renal Histology at 6 Months in De Novo Renal Transplant Patients.
Morphologic changes in transplant protocol biopsies provide early evidence of renal damage. This study examined the renal histology of de novo patients 6 months post…2016 American Transplant Congress
Defective Post-Reperfusion Metabolic Recovery Directly Associates with Incident Delayed Graft Function.
Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Delayed graft function (DGF) following kidney transplantation detrimentally affects long-term graft function and survival. DGF is a manifestation of ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury, yet up…2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Bariatric Surgery and One-Year Graft Loss Risk in Kidney Transplants.
Background: Several centers recommend bariatric surgery (BS) pre-transplantation (pre-Tx) with arbitrary BMI cutoffs. The effects of BS on Tx outcome are unclear. We studied the…2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Alloantibody Responses Against Donor MHC Class I and Class II Molecules Are Differentially Affected by Prolonged Cold Ischemia Storage of Renal Allografts.
Immunology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
Prolonged cold ischemia storage (CIS) of donor transplants is a major risk factor for acute and chronic graft tissue injury. Despite strong clinical correlations between…2016 American Transplant Congress
Circulating Angiotensin II Receptor: Possible Marker for Antibody Mediated Tissue Injury?
Transplant Surgery, VCU Health, Richmond, VA.
Background. Antibody mediated rejection is the leading cause of renal allograft failure. Membrane-bound angiotensin II receptor(AngII) in the renal allograft can be a target of…
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