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2017 American Transplant Congress
Challenges for the Travelling Donor: Variability Between Donor Work-Up and Donor Surgery in the Canadian Kidney Paired Donation Program.
B. Reikie, T. Kroczak, T. McGregor.
Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Urology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Background: A primary obstacle to providing renal transplantation is limited access to donated kidneys. The living donor pool for renal allografts was greatly expanded through…
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A Retrospective Study on the Impact of Abdominal Surgical Histories on Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy for Living Donor Adult Kidney Transplant.
T. Hiramitsu, K. Futamura, M. Okada, M. Tsujita, N. Goto, S. Narumi, Y. Watarai.
Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Background This study investigated the impact of hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) for living donors with surgical histories.Methods During January 2009–May 2015, 555 living kidney…
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Tangible Benefits in Caregiving Burden Among Spouses/Partners of Transplant Patients: Adding “Donor Benefit” to Live Donor Risk Assessment.
S. Rasmussen, L. Duquette, M. Henderson, D. Segev.
JHU, Baltimore
Background The mental and physical health of spouses and co-habiting partners (dyads) are highly correlated. Dialysis entails significant caregiving burden and decreases the quality of…
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Expectations and Experiences of Follow-Up and Self-Care After Living Kidney Donation: A Focus Group Study.
K. Manera,^1,2 C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Chapman,³ J. Kanellis,^4,5 J. Gill,⁶ J. Craig,^1,2 S. Chadban,^7,8 G. Wong,^1,2,3 A. Ralph,^1,2 A. Tong.^1,2
¹Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia; ³Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, VIC, Australia; ⁵Department of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; ⁶Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; ⁷Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Background: Ensuring donor wellbeing warrants ongoing monitoring following living kidney donation. However, there is considerable variability in donor follow up processes, including information provided to…
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African American Living Kidney Donors' Attitudes About APOL1 Genetic Testing: Implications for Evaluation and Informed Consent.
E. Gordon,¹ C. Johnson,¹ C. Wicklund,¹ R. Sharp,² J. Friedewald.¹
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester
BackgroundAfrican American (AA) live kidney donors (LKDs) have a greater risk than European American live donors of kidney failure. Apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) gene variants in…
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Interruption of RAAS in Hypertensive Proteinuric Kidney Donors.
O. Sanchez,¹ L. Ferrara,¹ D. Berglund,¹ A. Matas,² R. Foley,¹ H. Ibrahim.¹
¹Department of Internal Medicine, U of MN, Mpls, MN; ²Department of Surgery, U of MN, Minneapolis, MN
The aim of this analysis was to assess the progression of eGFR between proteinuric hypertensive living kidney donors (HTN-LKDs) receiving ACE inhibitors (ACEinh) or angiotensin…
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Live Donor (LDTx) HIV(+) Kidney Transplantation Improves Allograft Survival vs. Deceased Donor (CRD) Transplantation.
G. Malat, D. Lee, K. Ranganna, S. Talluri, L. Levin Mizrahi, M. Harhay, C. Culkin, S. Guy.
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia
Hahnemann University Hospital has performed 113 kidney transplants in HIV(+) recipients. We sought to analyze the impact of HIV(+) LDTx on allograft survival.Methods: The HIV(+)…
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Usefulness of Multi-Detector Computed Tomography (MDCT) Scanning as a Replacement for Diethylenetriamine Pentaacetic Acid (DTPA).
H. Lee,¹ W. Han,¹ K. Huh,² M. Kim,² S. Kim,² Y. Kim,² Y. Yoon.¹
¹Urology, Urological Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Transplantation Surgery, Research Institute for Transplantation, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Objective: Diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) and multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) can predict postoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in a live kidney donor. Accordingly, we…
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Recurrence of IgA Nephropathy After Kidney Transplantation in Maintenance Steroids versus Steroid Avoidance Regimens: A UNOS/OPTN Analysis.
N. Leeaphorn, N. Garg, E. Khankin, F. Cardarelli, M. Pavlakis.
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Background: There has been an increase in the use of steroid-avoidance regimens. However, there is some evidence to suggest that steroid avoidance may be associated…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Trends in Long-Term Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation in Australia and New Zealand.
W. Lim,¹ W.-C. Yeung,² S. Campbell,³ S. Chadban,⁴ P. Clayton,⁵ C. Hawley,³ D. Johnson,³ S. McDonald,⁵ E. Pascoe,⁶ G. Wong,⁷ S. Badve.²
¹Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia; ²St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ³Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; ⁴Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁵University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; ⁶University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; ⁷Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Introduction: Surgical and medical advances have led to considerable improvement in short-term outcomes of kidney transplantation, with 1-year graft and patient survival approaching 100%. However,…