Articles tagged "Renal injury"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Death-Censored Graft Failure (DCGF) Post Kidney Transplant (KTx) is Usually the Result of Rapid Loss of Function after Periods of Stability
R. Gaston,¹ L. Hunsicker,² A. Fieberg,³ A. Matas,³ The DeKaf Consortium.
¹CTI Clinical Trial & Consulting, Covington, KY; ²Int. Med., U Iowa, Iowa City, IA; ³Biostatistics and Surgery, U Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Late graft dysfunction leading to clinically indicated transplant biopsy (KTxBx) is a better predictor of subsequent DCGF than baseline data and early post-transplant events (Gaston…
2017 American Transplant Congress
The Degree of NK Cell Activation Determines the Ability of Donor-Specific Antibodies to Mediate Acute vs. Chronic Rejection of Kidney Allografts.
T. Yagisawa,^1,2 T. Tanaka,¹ N. Dvorina,¹ A. Valujskikh,¹ W. Baldwin 3rd,¹ R. Fairchild.¹
¹Immunology and Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
While the incidence of antibody-mediated kidney graft rejection has increased, the key cellular and molecular participants underlying this graft injury remain unclear. We have previously…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Humanized Anti-CD47 Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Alleviates Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury of Porcine Renal Allografts Donated After Cardiac Death.
M. Xu,¹ B. Banan,¹ X. Wang,¹ D. Chirumbole,¹ B. Rabe,¹ S. Garcia-Aroz,¹ D. Nayak,¹ Z. Zhang,¹ J. Jia,¹ G. Upadhya,¹ J. Gaut,² P. Manning,³ Y. Lin,¹ W. Chapman.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; ²Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; ³Tioma Therapeutics, Inc, St. Louis
PURPOSE: This study investigated whether the blockade of the CD47 signaling pathway, which is involved in vascular endothelial nitric oxide regulation, reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI)…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Hepatic Ischemia Reperfusion Injury After Liver Transplantation Is Associated with Acute Kidney Injury.
S. Kubal,¹ M. Anderson,² J. Fridell,¹ B. Ekser,¹ T. Taber,² P. Li,¹ M. Ghabril,³ M. Lacerda,³ R. Mangus.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ²Department of Nephrology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ³Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Background: The impact of liver allograft ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) on native renal function remains to be characterized. We hypothesized that severity of IRI correlates with…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Gut Microbial Metabolite Improves Function and Prolongs Kidney Allograft Survival in Mice.
H. Wu,^1,2 T. Kwan,¹ Y. Loh,¹ X. Chen,¹ L. Macia,^2,3 S. Alexander,^2,4 S. Chadban.^1,2
¹Kidney Node Laboratory, The Charles Perkins Centre and Renal Medicine, Sydney Medical School and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ²University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ³Nutritional Immunometabolism Lab, The Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia; ⁴Nephrology Department, The Children Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
To determine the impact of dietary administration of the gut microbial metabolite sodium acetate (SA) on kidney rejection and survival in a fully MHC-mismatched murine…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Accumulating Mitochondrial DNA in Aging Augments Inflammatory Responses Subsequent to IRI.
M. Seyda,^1,2 M. Quante,¹ T. Heinbokel,¹ G. Liu,¹ H. Uehara,¹ J. Schuitenmaker,¹ R. Abdi,³ C. Falk,² A. Elkhal,¹ S. Tullius.¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston; ²Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; ³Renal Division, Schuster Family Transplant Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Background: Older donor organs are increasingly utilized to close the gap between demand and supply. We submit that aging-associated kinetics of damage associated molecular patterns…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Clusterin Levels at 3-Months Associate with DGF and 12-Month Fibrosis – Reinforcing the Early Injury to Fibrosis Continuum.
M. Menon,¹ L. Liriano-Ward,² N. Philippe,¹ C. Wei,¹ W. Zhang,¹ Z. Yi,¹ K. Keung,² P. O'Connell,² B. Murphy.¹
¹Medicine, Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; ²Medicine, Westmead Millenium Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Genomics of Chronic Allograft Rejection (GoCAR) is a multicenter study investigating the ability of gene expression to predict the development of Chronic allograft nephropathy.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Postoperative Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase Is a "Troponin-Like" Marker of Renal Transplant Distress.
R. Steiner, J. Halldorson.
UCSD Center for Transplantation, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is plentiful in renal tubular cells and is released during tubular injury or death. It increases for several days to 1500-2000 U/L…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Modulating Ischemia-Reperfusion Injuries with Pharmacological Agents: A Bench-to-Bedside Approach.
M. Thomas, G. Tardif, A. Melanger, P. Berna.
Balmes Transplantation, Marseille, France
Ischemia–reperfusion (IR) is a complex pathophysiological process encompassing activation of inflammatory responses and cell death programs, the severity of which critically influences both the short…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Estrogen Receptor Alpha Mediates Female Protection from Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Through Mechanisms Extrinsic to the Kidney.
D. Aufhauser,¹ D. Murken,¹ Z. Wang,¹ G. Ge,¹ S. Concors,¹ T. Bhatti,² W. Hancock,^2,3 M. Levine.^1,4
¹Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ³Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction: Female protection from renal ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is observed in both mouse and human renal transplantation. We wished to assess the role of estrogen…