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…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Graft Thin Upper Pole Arterial Branch Ligation on Adult Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.
Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
ObjectiveIn kidney transplanation, some upper pole branches are too thin to be reconstructed. The impact of graft thin upper pole arterial branch ligation on adult…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Multi-Center Study of Factors That Increase Cognitive Load in Living Donor Liver Transplants.
Background: Studies have shown that distractions in the operating room (such as phones/pagers, irrelevant conversations, ins and outs) can negatively affect concentration and performance, and…2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessment of Transplant Health Literacy of Liver Transplant Candidates and Their Caregivers.
Purpose: All transplant programs provide education sessions and instructional material to their patients to improve health literacy. However, their efficacy is unknown. We piloted a…2016 American Transplant Congress
Socioeconomic Status and Readmission Following Kidney Transplant.
Transplant Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
Our group has previously demonstrated that 31% of kidney transplant recipients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge from the original hospitalization. Patient-level contributors such…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…2015 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Transplant Patient Safety Situation Reporting
Background: The OPTN Operations & Safety Committee is charged with reviewing aggregated, de-identified safety situation data reported through both the UNet Improving Patient Safety (IPS)…2015 American Transplant Congress
Role of Universal Decolonization After Kidney Transplant: A Pilot Study
IntroductionInfection is a common cause of morbidity and mortality after kidney transplantation. Despite careful pre-transplantation screening of donors and recipients, vaccination, prophylaxis, and antimicrobial use,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Establishment of Diabetes Modeling in Common Marmoset
Background:Diabetic nonhuman primates (NHPs) are considered as the good models for both diabetes mellitus research and islet transplantation research safely into clinical applications. However, there…2015 American Transplant Congress
Systematic Medical Record Review to Identify Safety Risks in Living Liver Donors
BACKGROUNDPrevention of adverse events (AEs) is important in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT), as these are healthy volunteers who undergo a major procedure with no…
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