Articles tagged "Survival"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Infusion of Extracorporeal Photopheresis Treated Donor Splenocytes Leads to Long-Term Liver Allograft Survival and Donor Specific Tolerance in Rats.
X. Kang,¹ Y. Xie,² X. Yeap,² J. Wang,² J. Schneiderman,² Z. Zhang.²
¹Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, The Third Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China; ²Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin, Chicago, IL.
Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP), a procedure that exposes isolated WBC to photoactivatable 8-methoxypsoralen and ultraviolet A radiation, is used clinically to treat patients with cutaneous T-cell…
2016 American Transplant Congress
An Analysis of Factors Associated with Pancreas Allograft Thrombosis.
J. Steggerda, K. Bornhurst, A. Annamalai, A. Peng, J. Mirocha, D. Dafoe.
Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
A successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant in recipients with end-stage diabetic nephropathy will provide normoglycemia and exert a salutary effect on neurovascular complications. Early, non-technical…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Using Gastrointestinal Biopsy to Predict Outcome in Patients Evaluated for Cardiac Transplantation for Amyloidosis: A Report from the International Consortium on Cardiac Amyloidosis Transplantation (iCCAT).
Y. Li,¹ K. Verkouw,¹ S. Tabtabai,¹ R. Barrios,² R. Gill,³ J. Koo,⁴ C. Marboe,⁵ E. Rodriguez,⁶ C. Tan,⁶ T. De Marco,³ J. Estep,² M. Hanna,⁶ M. Maurer,⁵ J. Patel,⁴ V. Selby,³ M. Semigran,¹ J. Stone.¹
¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ²The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ⁴Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA; ⁵Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; ⁶Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Heart transplant (HT) is an established therapy for heart failure due to amyloidosis. The utility of gastrointestinal (GI) biopsy in predicting patient outcomes and guiding…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Chimeric Cell Transplantation for Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Preliminary Report.
E. Szilagyi, E. Bryndza Tfaily, J. Cwykiel, M. Siemionow.
Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago.
Background: Transplant of Chimeric Cells, created via ex vivo fusion of donor and recipient cells, represents a promising cell therapy option in the field of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Impact of the Share35 Liver Allocation Policy: Survival Outcomes Among Liver Re-Transplant Recipients.
J. Ortiz,¹ N. Koizumi,² C. Kwon,² Y. Zhang,² C. Ortiz.³
¹Department of Surgery, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; ²George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; ³Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
Liver retransplantation (reLTx) is the only treatment option for those who experienced graft loss after primary liver transplantation (LTx). Yet, in an era of increasing…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Colonization and Risk of Bacteremia by Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in Intestinal Transplant Recipients.
J. Simkins,¹ J. Camargo,¹ M. Morris,¹ R. Vianna,² T. Beduschi,² L. Abbo.¹
¹Medicine/Infectious Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL; ²Surgery, Miami Transplant Institute/University of Miami, Miami, FL.
Background: This study is the first to evaluate colonization rates and subsequent bacteremia with multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) in intestinal transplant (ITx) recipients.Methods: Retrospective study…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Assessing the Induction of Tolerance to Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation in Miniature Swine.
J. Walch, J. Alonso-Escalante, H. Wang, B. Oh, M. Iglesias, A. Lee, G. Brandacher, G. Raimondi.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD.
Purpose: Miniature swine is a pre-clinical large animal model well suited to validate protocols of tolerance induction to vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA). However, tools to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Inferior Outcomes in Hepatitis C Virus Positive Donors to Hepatitis C Virus Negative Kidney Recipients: Analysis of National Data.
H. Fattah, L. Kang, H. Dave, D. Kumar, A. King, C. Bhati, A. Sharma, G. Gupta.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Background: Kidney transplantation (KTxp)with HCV kidneys (HCV D+)may represent a safe resource to expand the donor pool, and to reduce waiting time in patients with…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Human Epineural Allograft Conduits Supported with Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: A Preliminary Report.
M. Siemionow, M. Strojny, W. Malewski, J. Cwykiel, M. Cyran.
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
PURPOSE: Due to the limitations of current surgical methods of long nerve defect repair, new therapeutic approaches are needed to enhance nerve regeneration. Nerve allografts…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Preoperative Body Composition on Outcomes After Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Y. Hamaguchi, T. Kaido, A. Kobayashi, S. Okumura, S. Yagi, H. Okajima, S. Uemoto.
Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Background: Skeletal muscle depletion has been shown to be an independent predictor of lower overall survival in various diseases. In surgical fields, however, the significance…