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PROTOCOLS OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION
Chairpersons:
Ronald D. Guttmann, Montreal, Canada
Alexander Yussim, Petach Tikva, Israel

PREVENTION OF ACUTE REJECTION WITH BASILIXIMAB AND TRIPLE IMMUNOSUPPRESSION AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
Aljosa Kandus Ljubljana, Slovenia
REDUCTION OF CALCINEURIN INHIBITORS IN PATIENTS AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION BECAUSE OF CHRONIC RENAL ALLOGRAFT DYSFUNCTION IN COMBINATION WITH SIROLIMUS
Pridoehl Olaf Woeste Guido Lubke Peter Kohlhaw Kay Bechstein Wolf Bochum, Germany
COMPARISON OF TACROLIMUS AND NEORAL BASED IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE REGIMENS IN RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
Alper Demirbas Murat Tuncer Alihan Gurkan Gulsen Yakupoglu Mustafa Akaydin Antalya, Turkey
CLINICAL EXERIENCE WITH MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL (MMF) IN LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
Carole Meyer Murat Cag Bernard Ellero Marie-Lorraine Woehl-Jaegle Daniel Jaeck Philippe Wolf Strasbourg, France
HIGH MYCOPHENOLIC ACID (MPA) EXPOSURE IN KIDNEY RECIPIENTS ON LONG TERM MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL (MMF) TREATMENT
Teun Van Gelder Rob Engelbertink Jan Ijzermans Cees Hesse Willem Weimar Rotterdam, Netherlands
PRIMARY IMMUNOSUPPRESSION WITH TACROLIMUS IS ASSOCIATED WITH A REDUCTION IN RENAL ALLOGRAFT FIBROSIS COMPARED WITH NEORAL THERAPY
Julian Waller Gareth Bicknell Michael Nicholson Leicester, UK
INFLUENCE OF SIROLIMUS AS A RESCUE THERAPY ON RENAL FUNCTION AFTER CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION
Gero Tenderich Bernd Schulze Gerald Hall Uwe Schulz M.Hamed Amin Parsa Sebastian Schulte-Eistrup Kazutomo Minami Reiner Körfer Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL REDUCES CALCINEURIN -INHIBITOR INDUCED SIDE-EFFECTS AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Robert Pfitzmann Jochen Klupp Jan M. Langrehr Ruth Neuhaus Guido Junge Utz Settmacher Thomas Steinmueller Peter Neuhaus Berlin, Germany
ADDITIONAL RAPAMYCIN ADMINISTRATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO OKT III-RESCUETHERAPY IN HEART TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
Mohammad H. Amin Parsa Gero Tenderich Sebastian Schulte-Eistrup Oguz Coskun Kazutomo Minami Reiner Koerfer Bad Oeyhausen, Germany
IL-2 ANTIBODIES INDUCTION AND THE OUTCOME OF PEDIATRIC RENAL TRANSPLANTS
Clotilde D. Garcia Viviane R. Barros Luciane Schneider Cassia G. Silveira Valter D. Garcia
Porto Alegre, Brazil
LONG TERM RESULT OF DILTIAZEM USE ASSOCIATED TO CYCLOSPORIN IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
A.F. Santos E. Keitel J.P. Neto M.A. Alves P.G. Schaefer A.E. Bittar J.C. Goldani V.D. Garcia
Porto Alegre, Brazil
DE NOVO CYCLOSPORINE AND TICLOPIDINE ASSOCIATED HAEMOLYTIC URAEMIC SYNDROME IN A KIDNEY TRANSPLANTED RECIPIENT RECEIVING DACLIZUMAB,CYCLOSPORINE AND CORTICOSTEROID IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY
Eva Toronyi Adam Remport Marienn Reti Janos B. Kovacs Szilard Torok Norbert Lazar Jeno Jaray Ferenc Perner Budapest, Hungary
CYCLOSPORINE FROM TWICE TO SINGLE DAILY DOSE: IMPACT IN THE RENAL FUNCTION, MORTALITY AND LOST OF RENAL TRANSPLANT
Patricia C.D. Bianco Reginaldo Boni Paula G P Machado Helio Tedesco S J Jose O M Pestana Porto Alegre, Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil
THE EFFICACY OF MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL TREATMENT IN THE PREVENTION OF ACUTE RENAL REJECTION IS RELATED TO SERUM LEVEL OF MYCOPHENOLIC ACID.
M. Kuriata-Kordek M. Boratynska J. Urbaniak M. Klinger Wroclaw, Poland
CONVERSION OF TREATMENT FROM CYCLOSPORINE TO TACROLIMUS FOR ACUTE AND CHRONIC REJECTION IN RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
Miroslaw Banasik Wroclaw, Poland
PROLONGED INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION OF CYCLOSPORINE AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION - A CASE REPORT
V. Maravic-Stojkovic B. Radomir A. Dujic B. Radevic Belgrade, Yugoslavia
IMMUNOSUPPRESIVE TREATMENT OF SEVERE ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE AFTER ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
Irena Preloznik Zupan Samo Zver Joze Pretnar Ljubljana, Slovenia


SIDE EFFECTS OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION
Chairpersons:
Matthias von Herrath, La Jolla, CA, USA
Claus Hammer
, Munich, Germany

POLYOMA VIRUS NEPHROPATHY (PVN) IN 67 RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS:EFFECT OF MANIPULATIONS OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION ON GRAFT SURVIVAL
Cinthia Drachenberg Emilio Ramos Rene Drachenbreg Jeffrey Fink Steve Blahut John Papadimitriou Baltimore, USA
PREDICTIVE VALUE OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT AND CORRELATION WITH OTHER RISK FACTORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BK/ POLYOMA VIRUS INFECTION IN
RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

John C. Papadimitriou Jeffrey Fink Emilio Ramos Matthew Weir Stephen Bartlett Rene Drachenberg Cinthia B. Drachenberg Baltimore, USA
SEVERE FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN KIDNEY GRAFT RECIPIENTS
Andrej Bren Mira Koselj Aljosa Kandus Damjan Kovac Jelka Lindic Alja Crnej Katarina Grego
Ljubljana, Slovenia
INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT FOR ANCA-RELATED VASCULITIS
Miha Koselj Mira Koselj Aljosa Kandus Andrej Bren Ljubljana, Slovenia
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS OF CYCLOSPORINE (CS) RELATED HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME (HUS) IN KIDNEY GRAFT RECIPIENTS - CLINICAL AND HISTOPATHOLOGIC STUDY OF 13 CASES
Andrej Bren Aljosa Kandus Damjan Kovac Mira Koselj Jadranka Buturovic Jelka Lindic Alenka Vizjak Dusan Ferluga Ljubljana, Slovenia
INCREASED DONOR KIDNEY WEIGHT DOES NOT AMELIORATE CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY
Shanying Liu Yousheng Yao Balazs Antus Hequn Zou Friederike Illies Jens Lutz Uwe Heemann Essen, Germany
MAINTENANCE TREATMENT OF PRIMARY PLASMA CELL LEUKAEMIA WITH INTERFERON ALPHA
Peter Cernelc Ljubljana, Slovenia
POSTTRANSPLANT DIABETES MELLITUS - A SERIOUS COMPLICATION OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION IN RENAL ALLOGRAFT RECIPIENTS
Mira K. Koselj Aljoša Kandus Andrej Bren Ljubljana, Slovenia
INCIDENCE AND COURSE OF LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASES FOLLOWING ORTHOTOPIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION WITHOUT CYTOABLATIVE INDUCTION THERAPY
Karl W. Deyerling Gero Tenderich Uwe Schulz Sebastian Schulte-Eistrup Ralph Haller Bernd Schulze Kazutomo Minami Reiner Koerfer Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
POST-TRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE TREATMENT: RITUXIMAB ASSOCIATED TO RAPAMYCIN
Valter D. Garcia Jose Luiz Bonamigo-Filho Jorge Luis Neumann Ana Maria Gaiger Clotilde Druck Garcia Viviane Rocha De Barros Elisete Keitel Antonio Eduardo Bittar Auri Santos Sergio Roithmman Porto Alegre, Brazil
INFECTION OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNSI) AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION (TX)
Visnja D. Lezaic Dragana D. Radivojevic Radmila N. Blagojevic Ljubica D. Djukanovic Beograd, Yugoslavia
COSMETIC SIDE EFFECTS OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH RENAL GRAFT
Jadranka J. Buturovic Ponikvar Gregor Novljan Rafael R. Ponikvar Ljubljana, Slovenia
URETERIC STENOSIS AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION: THE INFLUENCE OF IMMUNSUPPRESSION
Nicholas R. Brook Julian R. Waller Clare J. Pattenden Michael L. Nicholson Leicester, UK
TREATMENT OF HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA IN KIDNEY GRAFT RECIPIENTS USING SIMVASTATIN: A DOUBLE-BLIND,RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO CONTROLLED STUDY
A.F. Santos E. Keitel A.E. Bittar J.C. GOLDANI D. Saitovivh V.D. Garcia Porto Alegre, Brazil
THE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIONS IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPINTS WITH NOVEL IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE REGIMES
Ladislava Lyerova Jiri Lacha Ondrej Viklicky Vladimir Teplan Stefan Vitko Prague, Czech Rep.
SIDE EFFECTS OF PROTEIN A IMMUNOADSORPTION AND PLASMA EXCHANGE THERAPY IN RENAL ALLOGRAFT RECIPIENTS
Rafael R. Ponikvar Aljosa S. Kandus Andrej F. Bren Jadranka J. Buturovic Ponikvar Ljubljana, Slovenia
STEROID-WITHDRAWAL (SW) IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
E. Gruter J.Ph. Zuber P. Ambuhl M. Miozzari A. Staub A. Knoflach U. Binswanger Zurich, Switzerland


TRANSPLANTATION BIOLOGY
Chairpersons:
Margreet Jonker, Rejswijk, Netherlands
Stuart Knechtle, Madison, USA


RHCTLA4IG INDUCES IMMUNE TOLERANCE IN MIXED MURINE SPLENOCYTE COCULTURE
Xi-Wei Chen Gao-Xing Luo Jun Wu Chongquing, China
THE CHANGE OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE EFFECT OF X-IRRADIATION AMONG AFTER TRANSPLANT PERIOD FOR AORTIC TRANSPLANTATION IN RAT
Naoki Nagashima Ahmed Shalabi Nobuji Ogawa Isamu Koyama James Burdick Moroyama, Japan; Baltimore, USA
KILLER T-CELLS - A PROMISING NEW TOOL FOR ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY
Claudia Jursik Regina Voglauer Herbert Jungfer Hermann Katinger Vienna, Austria; Penzberg, Germany
IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS LEFLUNOMIDE AND MYCOPHENOLICACID INHIBIT FIBROBLAST IL-6 PRODUCTION BY DISTINCT MECHANISMS
Djordje Miljkovic Tatjana Samardzic Danijela Drakulic Stanislava Stosic-Grujicic Vladimir Trajkovic Beograd, Yugoslavia
PREVENTION OF CYCLOSPORINE A NEPHROTOXICITY: A ROLE FOR GLYCINE?
Alberto A.E. Bertelli Luca Giovannini Nicola Origlia Cristina Filippi Carolina Rocchi Massimiliano Migliori Vincenzo Panichi Aldo Bertelli Milan, Italy; Pisa, Italy
PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF L-PROPYONILCARNITINE ON CYCLOSPORINE-A INDUCED LIPID PEROXIDATION
Alberto A.E. Bertelli Luca Giovannini Nicola Origlia Massimiliano Migliori Cristina Filippi Carolina Rocchi Vincenzo Panichi Aldo Bertelli Milan,Italy; Pisa,Italy
LF 15-0195, A NEW STABLE ANALOGUE OF 15-DEOXYSPERGUALIN, PREVENTS AND REVERSES RAT EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE MYASTHENIA GRAVIS.
Valerie Duplan Patrick Dutartre Philippe Druet Abdelhadi Saoudi Toulouse, France; Daix, France
EFFECTS OF MYCOPHENOLATE SODIUM (MPS) WITH OR WITHOUTFTY720 IN A DA TO LEWIS RAT HEART TRANSPLANTATION MODEL
Yuji Matsumoto Akiko Hof Yves Baumlin Robert P. Hof Basel, Switzerland
ANTIGEN PRESENTATION BY MOUSE CD4+ T CELLS AFTER ACQUISITION OF MHC: PEPTIDE COMPLEXES: A NOVEL MECHANISMS OF T CELL-MEDIATED REGULATION
Julia Y.S. Tsang Jian-Guo Chai Robert I. Lechler London, UK
DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF RAPAMYCIN, TACROLIMUS AND CYCLOSPORIN ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTIMAL HYPERPLASIA
Julian R. Waller Gareth R. Bicknell Rebecca Sandford Michael L. Nicholson Leicester, UK
PRE-TREATMENT WITH INDOMETACIN PROTECTS FROM ACUTE RENAL FAILURE FOLLOWING ISCHEMIC/REPERFUSION INJURY
Carla Q. Feitoza Helady Sanders Marcos Cenedeze Niels O.S. Camara Alvaro Pacheco-Silva
São Paulo, Brazil
DONOR TREATMENT PROLONGS SURVIVAL OF RAT CARDIAC ALLOGRAFTS IN SENSITIZED RAT RECIPIENTS
Georg S. Schmidbauer Jens U. Kuenzel Anja Homeyer Konrad Schwemmle Giessen, Germany
CYTOKINE MRNA PROFILES IN THE LUNGS OF PIGLETS EXPERIMENTALLYINFECTED IN UTERO WITH PORCINE REPRODUCTIVE AND RESPIRATORY SYNDROME VIRUS (PPRSV): EVIDENCE FOR SUSTAINED EXPRESSION OF IFN-G AND IL-10 AFTER VIRAL CLEARANCE FROM THE LUNGS.
Johnsen K. Christina Anette Boetner Soeren Kamstrup Peter Lind Jens Nielsen Copenhagen, Denmark
THE ORIGIN OF CYNOMOLGUS MONKEY AFFECTS THE OUTCOME OF KIDNEY ALLOGRAFTS UNDER NEORAL IMMUNOSUPPRESSION
Klaus Menninger Adrien Kunkler Sabine Riesen Grazyna Wieczorek Marc Bigaud Henk J. Scuurman Basel, Switzerland; Boston, USA
SIMVASTATIN EFFECT ON NK CELLS IN VIVO: A RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO CONTROLLED,
DOUBLE BLIND STUDY

A.F. Santos E. Keitel A.E. Bittar J. Neumann R. Pozza D. Saitovich V.D. Garcia L. Kroth Porto Alegre, Brazil
IN VITRO EFFECTS OF GINKGOLIDE B COMBINED WITH COMBINED WITH CYCLOSPORIN A ON T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION AND IL-5 EXPRESSION IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS FROM ASTHMATIC SUBJECTS
Fadia Mahmoud Sulaibikhat, Kuwait


IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY AND IMMUNE MONITORING
Chairpersons:
Paul Mohacsi, Bern, Switzerland
Randall Morris, Stanford, USA


PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF DNA TOPOISOMERASE I AND IIALPHA EXPRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH LUPUS NEPHRITIS AND MESANGIOCAPILLARY GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
Lilia V. Ivanova Eugene M. Shilov Alexej A. Ivanov Dietfrid Proppe Pierre Rudolph Moscow, Russia; Kiel, Germany
NO ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MDR-1 OR CYP3A4 GENE POLYMORPHISM ABD DOSE-ADJUSTED CYCLOSPORINE WHOLE BLOOD CONCENTRATIONS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
PATIENTS

Teun Van Gelder Ilse Van Der Heiden Ron Van Schaik Marloes Van Fessem Jan Lindemans Carla Baan Rotterdam, Netherlands
DETERMINATION OF HUMAN TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA BY A SENSITIVE ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY.
Mehdi Hedayati Razieh Yazdanparast Fereidoun Azizi Tehran, Iran
ASSESSMENT OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION OF LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION IN HUMAN BLOOD
Markus J. Barten Axel Rahmel Friedrich W. Mohr Jan F. Gummert Leipzig, Germany
PHARMACODYNAMICS (PD) OF SIROLIMUS (SRL) AND CYCLOSPORINE (CSA) COMBINATION THERAPY
Markus J. Barten Axel Rahmel Friedrich W. Mohr Jan F. Gummert Leipzig, Germany
EVALUATION OF THE NEW EMIT ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY FOR THE DETERMINATION OF WHOLE BLOOD TACROLIMUS CONCENTRATIONS IN KIDNEY, HEART AND LIVER-
TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

Cees J. Hesse Carla C. Baan Aggie H.M.M. Balk Herold J. Metselaar Willem Weimar Teun van Gelder Rotterdam, Netherlands
THERAPEUTIC IMMUNOSUPPRESSION AND IMMUNODIAGNOSIS OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES BASED ON AN ANTI-CD6 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY.
Enrique Montero Leopoldina Falcon Gil Reyes Olga Torres Marlene Guibert Nelson Rodriguez Jorge Estrada Jorge Navarro Leonel Torres Rolando Perez Alfredo Hernandez Agustin Lage
Havana, Cuba
OPTIMISING THE ENUMERATION OF ALLOREACTIVE CD4+ T CELLS
Maria P. Hernandez-Fuentes Saskia Stevenson Osquel Barroso-Herrera Robert I. Lechler
London, UK
ONE MONTH RESULTS OF C-2 MONITORING BASED CYCLOSPORIN MICROEMULSIVE FORMULATION, MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL, CORTICOSTEROID IMMUNOSUPPRESSION IN PRIMARY DE NOVO KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
Janos B Kovacs Adam Remport Szilard Torok Ildiko Sasvari Ferenc Perner Budapest, Hungary
THE EFFECT OF CALCINEURIN INHIBITORS ON QT DISPERSION IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
Aydin Turkmen Banu Bunyak Oflaz Huseyin Kucuk Mehmet Sahin Sevgi Bugra Zehra Umman Berrin Sever S Mehmet Istanbul, Turkey
SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS: MICRICHIMERISM IN AUTOIMMUNITY
Mario Abbud-Filho Roberto Acayba Toledo Erika Cristina Pavarino-Bertelli Maria Paula Sanches de Alvarenga Ida M. M. Fernandes Fabio A. Malara Joao Fernando Picollo Oliveira
Eloiza Helena Tajara Eny Maria Goloni-Bertollo Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, Brazil
IMPACT OF HLA-COMPATIBILITIES ON OUTCOME AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Jan M. Langrehr Ulf P. Neumann Martina Lang Peter Neuhaus Berlin, Germany
BEFORE CYCLOSPORINE WITHDRAWAL, RENAL GRAFT BIOPSY COULD BE A GOOD TOOL TO PREDICT REJECTION UNDER MYCOPHENOLATE MAINTENANCE TREATMENT
Marc Hazzan Lille, France
ANTI-THYMOCYTE GLOBULIN PREPARATIONS CAN BLOCK ADHESION MOLECULES Matthias Germer S Stegmann D Rohm M Kloft Dreieich, Germany


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