2015 American Transplant Congress
Medication Non-Adherence in Those Waiting for a Transplant
Purpose: Though poor medication adherence among adult kidney transplant patients is alarmingly high with distressing consequences, no one has systematically examined medication non-adherence in those…2015 American Transplant Congress
Concerted T-Cell Activity Against Early and Late BKV-Antigens Is Necessary for Viral Clearance
Polyomavirus-BK (BKV) associated nephropathy is a known cause of graft failure. No specific therapy is established so far and viral load monitoring accompanied by adjustment…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Liver Transplant Urinary Proteome Analysis Does Not Predict Development of Chronic Kidney Disease After Transplantation
Background and aims: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common complication after liver transplantation. Kidney biopsies cannot be easily performed before liver transplantation to predict…2015 American Transplant Congress
Recreational Marijuana Use Is Not Associated With Worse Kidney Allograft Outcomes
Background: As marijuana (MJ) legalization is ongoing, kidney transplant programs need to develop listing criteria for MJ users. No data exist on whether recreational MJ…2015 American Transplant Congress
Is Electron Microscopy Adding a Diagnostic Advantage in the Evaluation of Renal Allograft Biopsies for Antibody Mediated Rejection (AMR)?
Pathology and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Some electron microscopy (EM) findings have been consistently associated with antibody mediated microvascular injury; however, no large studies have been performed examining the concrete advantage…2015 American Transplant Congress
APOL1 Risk Alleles in Live and Deceased Kidney Donors Are Associated With Shorter Renal Allograft Survival
Kidneys from African American (AA) donors with two Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk alleles may be at higher risk of allograft loss after transplant. We sought…2015 American Transplant Congress
Down-Regulation of Autophagy Correlates With Increased Apoptosis in the Kidney, But Not in the Liver, of Brain Dead Rats
Organs from brain dead donors have inferior quality and show higher rejection rates after transplantation compared to living donors. Brain death (BD) in the donor…2015 American Transplant Congress
Infectious Complications With Plasmapheresis in Combination With Antithymocyte Globulin Compared to Antithymocyte Globulin Alone in the Treatment of Acute Rejection
The Comprehensive Transplant Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH.
Background: Due to the complex nature of acute rejection (AR), multiple therapeutic modalities are necessary to prevent graft loss. The combination of prolonged cell depletion…2015 American Transplant Congress
Characteristics and Outcomes of Kidneys Procured from Donors With KDPI > 80%
TRIBE Consortium, New Haven, CT.
Kidneys procured from donors with KDPI>80% are often biopsied and pumped, yet frequently discarded. The accuracy of these quality assessment tools remain controversial but contribute…2015 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation of ABO- and Crossmatch-Incompatible Recipient-Donor Pairs Entered in Kidney Paired Donation Program
Transplantation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY.
Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) enables ABO-incompatible (ABOI) and crossmatch-incompatible (XMI) patients to undergo transplantation using a 'more compatible' donor. Identification of factors that predict early…
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