2018 American Transplant Congress
Pancreatic Graft Loss after Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney (SPK) Transplant within First 90 Days. Predictors beyond the Surgical Cause. A UNOS/OPTN Data Analysis
Multi-Organ Transplantation Unit, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Background: Data on causal effects of variables to predict the early pancreatic graft loss in first 90 days is limited.Aim: To predict the early pancreatic…2018 American Transplant Congress
Increased Risk of Early Graft Loss in Pancreas Transplant: A Retrospective Review of the UNOS Database
Introduction: Pancreas transplant is an established cure for Type 1 diabetes. Nonetheless, early graft loss is not infrequent. We sought to analyze all of the…2018 American Transplant Congress
To Score a Pancreas, Stars Must Be Aligned
Excellent medical care and readily accessible insulin preparations serve to require a very high quality of deceased donor pancreas organs accepted for transplantation. Improving, prevailing…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hypoxia Results in Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Activation of the Unfolded Protein Response in Isolated Human Islets and Human Donor Pancreases
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: The Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) is activated as an adaptive response to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, however if ER stress is not resolved, UPR…2017 American Transplant Congress
Send Diabetes on a Long Trip: The Pancreas Travels Well.
Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Pancreas transplantation (PTx) has been on a dramatic decline in the last decade. Numerous factors have contributed to the waning momentum seen in the early…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Association of Donor Vasoactive Drugs with Pancreas Transplant Graft Survival.
Introduction: Vasoactive drugs (VaD) are commonly used to correct abnormal haemodynamics of organ donors in Intensive Care Units (ICU). VaDs can differentially affect insulin secretion…2017 American Transplant Congress
Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplantation After Combined Split Liver Transplantation and Pancreaticoduodenectomy: A Case Report.
1Oslo Univ. Hospital, Oslo, Norway; 2Rudbeck Laboratory Uppsala Univ. Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
IntroductionLiver cirrhosis (LC) and common bile duct (CBD) malignancy often require combined liver transplant (LT) and pancreatectomy (PE). Total pancreatectomy (TP) often results in unstable…2017 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Techniques for Pancreas Transplantation Graft without Vascular Reconstruction (Report of 8 Cases).
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Background / Purpose: Pancreas is complicated by its blood supply and vascular structure. At present, it is necessary to do the vascular remodeling and reconstruction…2017 American Transplant Congress
Lessons Learned from Simultaneous Biopsies of Both Kidney and Pancreas Grafts in Recipients of Simultaneous Kidney-Pancreas Transplants.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
It is commonly assumed that in simultaneous kidney and pancreas (SPK) recipients the rejection of the two organs will be concordant. As a result, simultaneous…2017 American Transplant Congress
Optimization of Pancreatic Islet-Like Clusters from hiPSCs for Cell Therapy in Type 1 Diabetes.
Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
IntroductionTreatment for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) includes pancreas or islets of Langerhans transplantation. Pancreatic beta-like cells from differentiated human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) offer…
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