Late Graft Loss: Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, 3–5 June, 1996

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Chronic graft loss in kidney and heart transplant recipients....Pages 3-12
Histopathology of chronic rejection....Pages 13-23
Evaluation of biopsy changes in the early diagnosis of chronic transplant nephropathy....Pages 25-30
Is there any relationship between the early glomerular filtration rate and late graft dysfunction in renal transplantation?....Pages 31-37
Transplantation atherosclerosis: Definition and pathogenesis....Pages 39-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Immunological mechanism of chronic rejection....Pages 51-61
The role of adhesion molecules in chronic rejection....Pages 63-67
A role for TH2 cells in chronic allograft rejection?....Pages 69-73
Treatment of refractory acute allograft rejection with aerosolized cyclosporin in lung transplant recipients....Pages 75-76
Ischemia—reperfusion injury as a risk factor for late kidney graft failure....Pages 77-83
The impact of acute rejection on the long-term outcome after renal transplantation....Pages 85-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Nephron endowment and the pathogenesis of chronic renal failure....Pages 93-100
Are child donors better than adult donors for pediatric kidney recipients?....Pages 101-103
Late graft loss in combined kidney-pancreas transplantation....Pages 105-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Longterm allograft outcome in patients treated with prophylactic antilymphocyte globulin or OKT3 as induction therapy in cadaveric kidney transplantation....Pages 111-119
Cyclosporin — longterm treatment....Pages 121-125
Effect of new immunosuppressive drugs on chronic rejection....Pages 127-133
Experimental transplantation in rats for the study of the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic rejection....Pages 135-141
The effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors after kidney and heart transplantation: Lipid lowering and immunosuppression....Pages 143-149
Lipid metabolism alteration and treatment in heart transplant recipients....Pages 151-160
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Prevention and treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease....Pages 161-165
Longterm renal function protection in renal transplantation by nonimmunological treatments....Pages 167-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Clinical Impact and Predictive Role of OGTT as a Marker of Longterm Loss of Function in Patients Submitted to Pancreas Transplantation....Pages 179-179
Influence of Recipient-Donor Body Weight Ratio in Pediatric Renal Transplantation....Pages 180-181
Survival, Rejection, Tumors and Infections 5 Years after Liver Transplantation....Pages 182-183
Comparison of Dipyridamole Thallium Scintigraphy and Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography to Detect Graft Coronary Artery Disease in Heart Transplant Patients....Pages 184-184
Immunohistochemical Profile in Asymptomatic Acute Rejection of Renal Allografts: Predictive Marker of Graft Loss....Pages 187-187
High Sodium UW Cold-Storage Solution Improves Kidney Graft Function in Rats....Pages 188-188
Influence of Natural Selection Haplotypes on Longterm Survival in Renal Transplantation from Haploidentical Living Related Donors....Pages 189-190
Posttransplant Immunological Monitoring by Elisa: HLA-Specific IgG Antibodies are Associated with Early and Late Graft Loss Events....Pages 191-191
Longterm Benefit of Additional Azathioprine in Cyclosporin/Prednisolone-Treated Patients with Chronic Renal Allograft Dysfunction....Pages 195-195
Effect of Steroid Withdrawal on Late Immunologic Complications after Liver Transplantation....Pages 196-196
Effect of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEI) on the Progressive Graft Failure And Proteinuria in Kidney Transplant Patients with Chronic Rejection....Pages 197-198
ATG Prophylaxis Preoperatively Reduced Acute Rejections — a Predicting Factor on Long Graft Survival....Pages 199-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Kidney Transplantation in Children at our Center....Pages 205-205
Kidney Transplantation Between Spouses....Pages 206-206
Oxidative Stress and Lipid Abnormalities During Chronic Rejection of Kidney Transplantation....Pages 209-209
Proton NMR Spectroscopy as a Novel Approach to the Assessment of Function in the Pig Isolated Kidney Exposed to Cold Ischemia....Pages 210-210
Renal Handling of Citrate Excretion during Reperfusion after Cold Storage in the Isolated Perfused Pig Kidney....Pages 211-211
The improvement of early rat kidney graft function after perfusion with HTK solution supplemented with Pentoxifylline....Pages 212-212
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Nifedipine Improves Kidney Function after 24h Cold Storage in a High Sodium UW Solution....Pages 213-213
Preventing Cadaveric Grafted Kidney from Acute Rejection with Anti-Thymocyte Globulin....Pages 217-217
Study of the Pharmacokinetics of the Neoral ® Formulation of Cyclosporin in vivo ....Pages 218-218
One Year Results of the European Mycophenolate Mofetil Phase III in Clinical Trial in Renal Transplantation....Pages 219-219
Detection of Lymphocyte Panel Reactive Antibody (PRA) Use in Kidney Transplantation....Pages 223-223
Cholestatic and HCV-Related Liver Disease Associated with Acute Rejection After Liver Transplantation....Pages 224-224
Outcome of Children and Adolescents with Recurrent Nephrotic Syndrome (NS) and Focalsegmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) after Renal Transplantation....Pages 225-225
CD8+ T Lymphocytes Can Amount a Second-Set Rejection of Skin Allografts in the Absence of Cytotoxic Antibodies....Pages 226-226
Hyperimmune Globulin in the Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Infection: Lack of Efficacy in Kidney Graft Recipients....Pages 227-227
Lung and Heart Lung Transplantation: Survival Data Concerning 100 Transplants Carried Out in 95 Patients at the L. Pradel University Hospital, Lyon....Pages 228-228
Evolution of lipoprotein(a) concentration 6 months after a successful renal transplantation....Pages 229-229
GSTs: Sensitive and Specific Markers for Liver Transplant Monitoring....Pages 230-230
Is Overweight a Relevant Risk Factor in the Short and Long-Term Evolution of Renal Transplantation?....Pages 231-231
Renal Allograft Thrombosis (RAT): A Case-Control Study....Pages 232-232
A Prospective Study on the Effect of Kidney Transplantation (KT) and Cyclosporine Treatment on Male Sexual Performance and Hormonal Profiles....Pages 233-233
Iliac Artery Histology and Renal Allograft Blood Flow Measured by Doppler Spectrum Analysis....Pages 234-234
Blood Flow Inpairment in Popliteal and Posterior Tibial Arteries After Iliac End-to-Side Anastomosed Renal Transplantation....Pages 235-235
The First Kidney Transplantation from Spouse in Lithuania....Pages 236-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-239