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Filter by:This study investigates the association between post-reperfusion (neohepatic) ALBI scores and post-LT renal outcomes in living-donor LT (LDLT) recipients.
hypothesis = hospitalization in the intensive care unit (ICU) has an impact on the outcome of the renal graft, due to the therapeutic and exploratory procedures performed. the aim is to identify risk factors for renal graft degradation in the ICU up to 2 years after hospitalization. Optimization of renal graft management in the ICU and management by nephrologists after the ICU
The use of a graft from the left internal thoracic artery to the left anterior descending artery has become the gold standard for the indication of coronary artery bypass grafting. However, choosing a graft for the second-best coronary artery, focusing on long-term patency, is still a challenge. The saphenous vein using the "no-touch" technique is an alternative to a radial artery graft, but there is little evidence, especially in women. This randomized clinical study aims to compare the patency of these grafts in the second-best coronary artery in women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.
Despite progress in chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is still the only curative procedure for some hematological malignancies. The probability of finding a matched sibling donor (MSD) is estimated under the classical 30%, because of the age of patients and their relatives, and a matched unrelated donor (MUD) can take time to identify. Currently in France, 25% of the allo-SCT are performed with an haplo-identical related donor. The Baltimore group developed an approach using haploidentical related donors, RIC, T-replete bone marrow and post-transplant high dose cyclophosphamide (PTCy) in patients with advanced hematological malignancies. PTCy has shown to eradicate alloreactive donor and host T-cells, activated by respective antigens, thereby reducing the incidence of graft versus host disease (GvHD) but delaying hematopoietic recovery. Therefore, the main source of graft is peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) mobilized by G-CSF in France. Unfortunately, with PBSC we observe a higher cumulative incidence of GvHD (around 50%) and a higher toxicity-related mortality (TRM), especially for recipients >50 years old. The co-transplantation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) at the time of transplantation has previously shown a double interest in GvHD immunomodulation and hematopoiesis support. Pre-clinical studies (in mice) have shown that mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) from Wharton's Jelly reduce the incidence of GvHD when the infusions are weekly repeated. We propose a phase I clinical trial to find the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of a weekly infusion of WJ-MSC administered as GvHD prophylaxis and as a support for a faster hematological reconstitution after haplo-identical allo-SCT.
Authors hypothesize that "no-touch" saphenous vein as I graft is superior over conventional "no-touch" saphenous vein as free graft in the incidence of graft patency.
Prognosis of patients with graft failure is dismal, and re-transplantation is the sole option for long-term survival. Currently, there is no consensus concerning therapeutic options in patients with primary or secondary (within the 60 days post-transplantation) graft failure and finding a new donor within an acceptable delay is challenging. Literature is poor on the subject while the overall survival of such patients is about 30% at 1 year. This situation thus represents today a very challenging unmet medical need. Recently, haploidentical (haplo) related donor Stem Cell Transplantation (haplo-SCT) have improved dramatically outcomes using T-cell replete grafts with administration of post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy, which targets alloreactive T cells generated early after an HLA-mismatched transplant, sparing regulatory T cells and leaving unaffected the non-dividing hematopoietic stem cells) and standard post-transplant immune suppression with a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) and mycophenolate mofetil. Our group re-transplanted a patient who experienced two consecutive graft failures and was successfully managed through a third haplo-SCT from her son using PTCy. We then retrospectively collected and analyzed data from 26 primary graft failure patients transplanted between 2011 and 2017 in 15 centers on behalf of French Society for Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy (SFGM-TC). The study population consisted mainly of patients with primary or secondary (within the 60 days post-transplantation) graft failure who underwent haplo-SCT and received PTCy as graft-versus-host-disease prophylaxis. The 1-year overall survival was about 60% suggesting that this approach might be a valid option in this particular poor clinical situation but now need validation through a phase II multicenter, national, prospective cohort study.
Acute rejection after kidney transplantation should ideally be diagnosed prior to immunologic injury in a non-invasive fashion in order to improve long-term graft function. Donor-derived cell-free DNA (ddcfDNA) is a promising method to do so as it is elevated prior to acute rejection and has good predictive performance especially for antibody-mediated and high severity T-cell mediated rejection. Its ability to predict low severity T-cell mediated rejection and future graft function remains equivocal. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential in transplant tolerance by suppressing effector immune responses. Circulating post-transplant highly suppressive HLA-DR+ Tregs were reduced in recipients who developed acute rejection. Preliminary results in a cohort including predominantly low severity T-cell mediated rejection also showed that pre-transplant circulating highly suppressive TNFR2+ Tregs were reduced in and could predict acute rejection. Integrating dd-cfDNA with HLA-DR+TNFR2+ Treg could improve the predictive performance for acute rejection especially of low severity and potentially predict graft function. Plasma dd-cfDNA and HLA-DR+TNFR2+ Tregs will be measured in 150 kidney transplant recipients at scheduled intervals during the first 6 months post-transplant. Predictive accuracy of a model integrating ddcfDNA and HLA-DR+TNFR2+ Treg for acute rejection will be tested using ROC curve analysis and multivariate logistic regression. Predictive accuracy for 1-year graft function will be tested using multivariate linear regression. High predictive performance for acute rejection and graft function using a model integrating dd-cfDNA and HLA-DR+TNFR2+ Treg would help identify kidney transplant recipients at immunologic risk early on and allow personalization of immunosuppression accordingly.
Our primary objective is to determine if the use of tumescence has a meaningful effect on STSG uptake at the recipient site. This is an important outcome because poor graft uptake results in the need for prolonged local wound care, additional clinic visits for patients and increased risk of infection. A prospective, randomized comparison of the tumescence to our current standard of care will allow us to definitively evaluate any benefits to this technique. Tumescence is commonly used in the treatment of burn patients to minimize blood loss during both tangential excision of eschar and during harvest of split-thickness grafts for reconstruction. This is considered the standard of care in burn surgery as using tumescence has been clearly demonstrated to reduce intraoperative blood loss during harvest of large skin grafts and excision of large burns when compared with the application of topical epinephrine as was the historic standard practice.4-6 Tumescence also creates a firm and uniform surface from which to harvest the skin graft, which the investigators believe may improve the quality of harvest and rate of skin graft take.
This was a retrospective, non-comparative study of 100 eyes of 100 consecutive glaucoma patients who had undergone glaucoma drainage device implantation (Baerveldt shunt) during January 2006 to December 2016. Glycerin-preserved, human-donor, corneoscleral tissue was used as a patch graft to cover the tube portion of the GDD over the sclera. The patch graft related complication was comparable to the previous reports using conventional sclera or pericardium.
Graft nephrectomy is associated with massive allo-sensitization following this event. The occurrence of anti-HLA antibodies is a major barrier to perform a second kidney transplantation. Investigators propose here to evaluate in a phase II pilot study, the safety of the use of a single dose of Tocilizumab immediately before or after graft nephrectomy. The primary endpoint evaluated here is the occurrence of serious infectious complications following graft nephrectomy, with a treatment by Tocilizumab. Secondary endpoints evaluated here are - to evaluate all complications after graft nephrectomy, - and the Tocilizumab effectiveness to reduce anti-HLA antibodies at one year post nephrectomy.