2017 American Transplant Congress
Shared Decision Aid to Decipher Long-Term Treatment Risks for End Stage Renal Disease Patients.
Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for end stage renal disease (ESRD) compared to dialysis. The incidence of ESRD continues to increase while the gap…2017 American Transplant Congress
Donor and Recipient Factors Important in Determining the Estimated GFR Difference Between Living Donor and Recipient Pairs Six Months After Transplant.
Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, FL
Analysis of the relationship between living donor and recipient estimated GFR (eGFR) six months after transplant revealed that in the first half of the last…2017 American Transplant Congress
The Implication of the Dominant Side Split Renal Function by Diethylenetriamine Penta-Acetic Acid (DTPA) in Live Kidney Donor.
Introduction: Long-term studies of live kidney donors have shown that living kidney donation is safe and rarely affects the individual's health. However, there are a…2017 American Transplant Congress
Strategies to Economize Dialysis and Transplantation in Low Resource Settings.
Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
Background: Pakistan in an emerging economy where 50% of the population live below the poverty line on <$2 a day. The government spend 1.3% of…2017 American Transplant Congress
Risk Prediction Models for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation to Predict Donor and Recipient Mortality and Graft Loss.
The purpose of this study was to develop linked risk prediction models for potential donors for and their respective recipients of a kidney transplantation at…2017 American Transplant Congress
Sexual Dysfunction Among Living Kidney Donors.
1JHU, Baltimore, MD; 2UAB, Birmingham, AL
Ensuring high post-donation quality of life among living kidney donors (LKDs) is a critical component of making living donation worthwhile for both recipients and donors.…2017 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients with Body-Size Mismatch Between Recipient and Donor.
[Purpose]In living-donor kidney transplantation between large recipient and small donor, there are concerns of lower graft function and poor graft survival. Thus, we aimed to…2017 American Transplant Congress
Retroperitoneoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy Safely Secures Excellent Graft Function.
Urology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
[Introduction] Laparoscopic surgery has been a standard procedure of living donor nephrectomy. Transperitoneal laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (TPLN) has been commonly reported by many centers with…2017 American Transplant Congress
Sensitized KPD Pairs Take Longer to Find Matches.
Kidney paired donation (KPD) can facilitate living donor transplantation for candidates with an incompatible donor, but it is unclear how sensitization or blood type affects…2017 American Transplant Congress
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathway for Living Donor Nephrectomy Patients Decreases Length of Stay and Narcotic Utilization.
Introduction:Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols reduce morbidity, hospital costs, and length of hospital stay although there have been few studies in living donor nephrectomy…
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