2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Vaccination Status in Transplant Candidates and Recipients: Current Status and Challenges to Successful Implementation.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Background: Vaccines are safety and efficacy of vaccines in transplant candidates and recipients. Several studies have demonstrated significant underutilization of vaccines which increases the risk…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reviewing Patient Care in Abdominal Transplantation.
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
Purpose: Unbiased review of patient care in solid organ transplantation is difficult but essential for improving patient safety. In October 2013 we created a process…2016 American Transplant Congress
Early Steroid Withdrawal in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis.
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the safety of steroid withdrawal in African American (AA) kidney transplant (KTX) recipients.Methods: Longitudinal cohort study…2016 American Transplant Congress
Donors with Isolated Anti-HBc (“HBcAb Only”) Antibodies: True Evidence for Past Infection or Laboratory Artifact? Toward a Simple Confirmatory Test for HBcAb.
Use of organs from donors positive for hepatitis B virus (HBV) markers may safely expand the donor pool. Recently the American Society of Transplantation expert…2016 American Transplant Congress
Everolimus Decline Anti-ABO Blood Type Antibody Titer in Desensitization for ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.
Kidney Transplantation Surgery, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
INTRODUCTION: The immoderate donor shortage and sophisticated desensitization protocols resulted in the explosive increase and great success of the ABO blood type incompatible kidney transplantation…2015 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) on Discarded Human Livers: The First Model in the US
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
The benefit of NMP preservation has been reported in a number of animal studies. Herein we describe safety, feasibility and effectiveness of NMP on discarded…2015 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Cardiac Troponin T (cTT) Is a Strong Predictor of Post Kidney Transplant Hospitalizations
Identifying patients at risk of re-hospitalization will permit improved monitoring and may decrease morbidity.We examined nine objective variables at the time of transplant and their…2015 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy and Safety of Three Different Treatment Regimen in De Novo Renal Transplant Patients: Month 48 Follow-Up Results of the HERAKLES Trial
Aim: To compare safety and efficacy of 3 different immunosuppressive (IS) regimen 4years after renal transplantation (Tx).Methods: 802 patients (pts) were included in this 1year,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Interim Safety Experience in Transplant Patients Treated With Belatacept (Nulojix) in the Post-Approval Setting
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ.
Purpose: Belatacept is a selective T-cell costimulation blocker indicated for prophylaxis of organ rejection in adult patients receiving a kidney transplant in combination with basiliximab…2015 American Transplant Congress
Interim Results of a Phase 1 Trial of Treg Adoptive Cell Transfer (TRACT) in Living Donor Kidney Transplant Recipients
Therapeutic cell transfer using regulatory T cells (Tregs) in transplant recipients may reduce the need for drug based immunosuppression (IS) and improve long term graft…