Articles tagged "Non-invasive diagnosis"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Can Fibroscan Evaluation Of A Liver Predict Transplantability As Accurately As A Biopsy?
S. J. Sander¹, M. Moncure²
¹Organ Procurement, Midwest Transplant Network, Westwood, KS, ²Midwest Transplant Network, Westwood, KS
*Purpose: Liver transplants are essential procedures that can impact a patient with chronic liver disease’s overall survival. Historically liver biopsies are the gold standard in…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Tissue Engineering Scaffolds for Minimally Invasive Immunosurveillance of Acute Cellular Graft Rejection
R. R. Urie¹, D. Farris², A. Morris¹, E. Lombard¹, J. Z. Li³, D. Goldstein², L. Shea¹
¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: As there is no assay to predict the risk of acute cellular allograft rejection (ACAR), clinicians rely on protocol graft biopsy and aggressive, one-size-fits-all…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Infection Impacts dd-cfDNA in Lung Transplant Recipients
D. Levine¹, C. Giner¹, C. Pham², R. Woodward², A. Roux³
¹University of Texas Health System San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, ²CareDX, South San Francisco, CA, ³Pneumology, Adult CF Center and Lung Transplantation Department, Foch Hospital, Suresnes, France
*Purpose: Infection is the leading cause of death within 1 year post lung transplant. Graft injury secondary to infection is affected by both source and…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Bone Mineral Density, Bone Micro-Architecture Evolution After Kidney Transplantation: A Prospective Cohort Study
A. Bouquegneau, O. Malaise, L. Seidel, L. Weekers, C. Bonvoisin, F. Jouret, E. Cavalier, P. Delanaye
CHU de Liège, Liege, Belgium
*Purpose: Bone loss and mineral abnormalities are frequent in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) and associated with a high risk of fracture and cardiovascular mortality. In…
2022 American Transplant Congress
A Sign of Things to Come? Clinical Markers After Elevated Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA in Heart Transplant Recipients
D. T. Kim¹, E. J. Henricksen², B. M. Zhang³, J. J. Teuteberg¹, Y. Moayedi⁴, H. I. Luikart¹, J. Han⁵, B. Wayda¹, K. Khush¹
¹Cardiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Transplant, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA, ³Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ⁴Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Cardiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Endomyocardial biopsy (EMBx) has historically been the standard of care for surveillance post heart transplant (HTx), but is limited by sample area and interpretation.…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Nonadherence Post-Kidney Transplant is Associated with Increased Immune Activation Detected by Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Assay
M. S. Naseer, H. Shokouh-Amiri, T. Creamer, R. McMillan, S. Tandukar, D. Aultman, G. B. Zibari, N. Singh
Transplant, John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center - Willis Knighton Health System, Shreveport, LA
*Purpose: Nonadherence to immunosuppressive medications is common post-transplantation. We hypothesized that nonadherence results in a heightened alloimmune response in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), which may…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor-derived Cell-free DNA in Upper Extremity Vascular Composite Allograft Recipients
R. Kalsi¹, M. Abuzeineh², J. Littleton¹, J. T. Shores¹, D. S. Cooney¹, C. Cooney¹, R. J. Redett¹, G. Brandacher¹, D. C. Brennan²
¹Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Diagnosing rejection in VCA recipients relies on clinical exam and biopsy which are both easily confounded by common causes of skin irritation. dd-cfDNA in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Performance Characteristics are Similar for Repeat and Primary Kidney Transplant Recipients
V. R. Peddi¹, S. Akkina², S. C. Jordan³, W. Tian⁴, Y. Qazi⁵
¹California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ²Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, ³Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴CareDx, Brisbane, CA, ⁵University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Repeat kidney transplants (RKT) represent 12.4% of kidney transplants (KT) (10.9% of all living donor and 13.6% of all deceased donor). Most RKT are…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Nonadherence Post-kidney Transplant is Associated with Increased Immune Activation Detected by Peripheral Blood Gene Expression Assay
N. Singh¹, A. Palermini¹, M. S. Naseer¹, T. Le¹, S. Tandukar¹, D. Aultman², H. Shokouh-Amiri², G. Zibari²
¹Transplant, John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center - Willis Knighton Health System, Shreveport, LA, ²Advanced Surgery, John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center - Willis Knighton Health System, Shreveport, LA
*Purpose: Nonadherence to immunosuppression medications is common post-transplantation. We hypothesize that nonadherence results in a heightened alloimmune response in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) which in…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Trugraf Gene Expression Testing Can Discriminate Rejection in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury
N. Singh¹, M. S. Naseer¹, D. Aultman², H. Shokouh-Amiri², G. Zibari²
¹Nephrology, John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center - Willis Knighton Medical Center, Shreveport, LA, ²Advanced Surgery, John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center - Willis Knighton Medical Center, Shreveport, LA
*Purpose: The TruGraf kidney blood gene expression test is a well-validated non-invasive biomarker to detect immune quiescence thus ruling out silent subclinical rejection in stable…