Articles tagged "Non-invasive diagnosis"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA is Not Influenced by Steroid Dosing in Heart Transplant Recipients
J. Teuteberg¹, S. Krim², M. Shullo³, S. Jimenez¹, H. Eisen⁴
¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, ³West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, ⁴Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA
*Purpose: Gene expression profiling (GEP) was recognized as an alternative to biopsy for rejection surveillance in the 2010 International society for Heart and Lung Transplantation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Two Pilot Studies Exploring the Diagnostic and Predictive Potential of Serum LAG3 and FGL1 in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Y. Li¹, L. Yan¹, Y. Li¹, C. Yang¹, Z. Wan¹, Y. An¹, Y. Bai¹, L. Wang¹, Y. Shi²
¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China, ²Department of Nephrology, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China
*Purpose: Lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG3), an immune checkpoint, plays an important role in the negative regulation of immune response and the induction of immune…
2020 American Transplant Congress
An Optimized Integrative Model Using Urinary Chemokines for Noninvasive Diagnosis of Acute Allograft Rejection
C. Tinel¹, A. Devresse¹, A. Vermorel¹, D. Marx², S. Caillard², C. Legendre¹, M. Rabant³, D. Anglicheau¹
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Inserm U1151, Necker Hospital, Paris, France, ²Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France, ³Pathology, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to optimize the performance of urinary chemokines C-X-C motif ligand (CXCL) 9 and CXCL10 as noninvasive diagnostic markers…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Noninvasive Detection of Subclinical Rejection in Urine RNA
K. S. Keslar¹, D. Margeta¹, J. J. Friedewald², M. Abecassis², R. B. Mannon³, P. S. Heeger⁴, R. L. Fairchild¹
¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Subclinical rejection may lead to long-term graft injury and can currently only be detected by repeated biopsies. A noninvasive method is needed to monitor…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Discovery and Validation of a Urinary Exosome mRNA Signature for the Diagnosis of Human Kidney Transplant Rejection
R. El Fekih¹, A. Alghamdi¹, J. Hurley², C. Coticchia², J. Choi¹, H. Allos¹, S. Eskandari¹, S. Bentink², V. Tadigotla², L. Riella¹, J. Markmann³, K. Safa³, R. Formica⁴, J. Skog², J. Azzi¹
¹Medecine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Exosome Diagnostics Inc., Waltham, MA, ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Yale School of Medecine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Monitoring kidney transplant rejection by repeated biopsies might result in increased procedural complications and cost. Exosomes are nanometer-sized vesicles released by cells carrying trans…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Noninvasive Imaging of CD122+ T Cells via Immuno-PET for Detection of Acute Cellular Rejection
A. J. Matar¹, B. P. Lovasik¹, D. Vanover², L. Rotolo², Y. Dong¹, D. A. Faber¹, D. V. Mathews¹, W. H. Kitchens¹, P. Santangelo², A. B. Adams¹
¹Surgery and Transplantation, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Acute cellular rejection (ACR) remains a clinically important problem following organ transplantation. Clinically, suspicion of ACR is dependent upon serum laboratory values, and diagnosis…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Monocyte-Derived MicroRNA Signature for Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation
C. Tinel¹, B. Lamarthée¹, F. Von Tokarski¹, M. Rabant², C. Legendre¹, W. Gwinner³, M. Naesens⁴, P. Marquet⁵, D. Anglicheau¹
¹Kidney Transplantation, Inserm U1151, Necker Hospital, Paris, France, ²Pathology, Necker Hospital, Paris, France, ³Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ⁴Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁵Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Inserm U850, Limoges University Hospital, Limoges, France
*Purpose: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs which regulate mRNA expression at the posttranscriptional level. We investigated blood miRNAs as non-invasive biomarkers in kidney transplantation…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Genetic Testing of Living Related Donors for Inherited Renal Disease Improves Evaluation and Promotes Informed Choice of At-Risk Living Donors
C. P. Thomas¹, M. E. Freese¹, D. A. Katz²
¹Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Living kidney donors (LKDs) with a family history of kidney disease are at higher risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) compared to LKDs without…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Urine Qisant Score: Non-Invasive, Accurate, Diagnosis and Prediction of Kidney Transplant Rejection
J. Y. Yang¹, R. Sarwal¹, T. Sigdel¹, I. Damm¹, B. Rosenbaum¹, J. Liberto¹, C. Chan-On¹, J. Alberu², F. Vincenti¹, M. M. Sarwal¹
¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of Mexico, Instituto Nacional De Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Accurate and non-invasive monitoring of renal allografts post-transplant is essential for early detection of acute rejection (AR) and to directly impact the long-term survival…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Antibody-Mediated Rejection with and without Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies: Performance of the Peripheral Blood 8-Gene Expression Assay
E. Van Loon¹, E. Lerut², D. Anglicheau³, W. Gwinner⁴, M. Essig⁵, P. Marquet⁵, M. Naesens¹
¹Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ³Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Necker Hospital, Paris, France, ⁴Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, ⁵CHU Limoges, Limoges, France
*Purpose: Therapeutic implications of the recently discovered 8-gene expression assay are most clear for detection of antibody-mediated rejection in presence of donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (HLA-DSA).…

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