2017 American Transplant Congress
Discrepancies in Perceived and Measured Cognitive Abilities in Transplant Recipients.
Aim: Examine how perceived cognitive performance compares with measured cognitive performance in renal transplant recipients.Background: Cognitive abilities affect patients' complex post-transplant care. An accurate assessment…2017 American Transplant Congress
Decision Tree Analysis of Renal Transplantation Recipients Outcomes: A Single Center Data Mining in the Big Data Era.
Background This is the era of big data and it may help manage clinical practice better. Decision tree analysis is a useful data mining tool…2017 American Transplant Congress
Subpopulations of Peripheral Blood Monocytes in Kidney Allograft Recipients.
Human peripheral blood monocytes may be divided into different subsets based on the expression of membrane antigens. Our pilot data suggested that after the kidney…2017 American Transplant Congress
Assessments of Literacy, Cognitive Function and Transplant Medication Knowledge in Renal Transplant Recipients.
Background: Medication adherence is often low in renal transplant recipients (RTR) and is in part due to inadequate knowledge. Therefore, new tools to identify medication…2017 American Transplant Congress
Polypharmacy and Frailty in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine Institute, Baltimore, MD
Frailty is common in kidney transplant (KT) recipients with a prevalence of 20%, and is associated with post-KT adverse events including mortality, DGF, early hospital…2017 American Transplant Congress
Adjuvant Chemotherapy with Gemcitabine Plus Cisplatin for Kidney Transplant Patients with Transitional Cell Carcinoma.
Urology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects and safety of adjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine plus cisplatin in kidney transplant patients with…2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Secretion of Organic Anionic Drugs Is Compromised in Renal Transplant Patients.
Renal transplantation(Tx) is the treatment of choice for patients with ESRD. Transplanted kidneys undergo numerous insults including cold ischemia & warm reperfusion injury and are…2017 American Transplant Congress
Primary Urtero- Ureterostomy in Renal Transplant, an Old Forgotten but Promising Technique.
John C McDonald Regional Transplant Center, Shreveport
Introduction:Ureter anastomosis is considered the achilles heel of renal transplant. Different types of Uretero-neocystostomy anastomosis techniques have been used as well as Uretero-Ureterostomy but latter…2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Function, Albuminuria, and the Risk of Death and Graft Loss After Kidney Transplantation.
In 2012, the KDIGO guidelines updated the classification system for chronic kidney disease to include albuminuria. Whether this classification system prognosticates adverse clinical outcomes among…2017 American Transplant Congress
Renal Transplant Recipients with Indication for Antiplatelet Therapy: Increased Risk for the Allograft?
General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital, Essen, Germany
Background Antiplatelet therapy is common in patients on the waiting list for kidney transplantation increasing the risk for perioperative blood loss. This study evaluates the…
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