2016 American Transplant Congress
Complications of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Among Recipients of Kidney Transplants.
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ.
Introduction: For patients undergoing percutanous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents, dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) is often used to prevent stent thrombosis. Kidney transplantation of…2016 American Transplant Congress
Renal Allograft Outcomes with Renal Artery Angioplasty and/or Stenting in Transplant Renal Artery Stenosis.
Background: The renal allograft function and blood pressure (BP) control after renal artery angioplasty±stenting for transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) is unclear. We aim to…2016 American Transplant Congress
Arterial Hypertension After Renal Transplantation in Pediatric Patients: An Analysis of CERTAIN Registry.
BackgroundOur study aimed to describe the prevalence of hypertension & blood pressure (BP) control as well as influencing factors in pediatric renal transplant patients.MethodCasual BP…2016 American Transplant Congress
Age and Education Level Are Predictors of Patient Preferences for Educational Formats in ESRD Patients Undergoing Transplant Education.
Background: Health literacy impacts hospitalizations and mortality. ESRD patients have reduced health literacy due to a high proportion of lower educational background and socioeconomic resources.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Racial Differences Amongst Infants Undergoing Intestine Transplants.
Transplant Institute, MedStar Geogetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
BackgroundIt is known that the demographics of the United States are changing because of immigration and increased birth rates in non-white populations. Here we examine…2016 American Transplant Congress
Is It Worth Risking Lives of Multiple Procurement Surgeons to Save One Life in Extreme Weather Conditions?
Multi Organ Transplantation Unit, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada.
Transplant needs highly skilled surgeons and allied medical staff to travel to distant locations on short notices and secure a deceased donor organ that is…2016 American Transplant Congress
KDPI Outcomes and Discard Rates – The Contradiction of the U.S. and European Approach.
Dept. of Nephrology CCM, Charite Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Introduction: Only a few data exist on the KDPI in European patients (pts). We evaluated the influence of donor factors assessed by the KDPI on…2016 American Transplant Congress
Simulating Alternative Bayesian Criteria to Identify Transplant Center Performance Outliers.
The newly constructed Bayesian models to evaluate transplant center performance were implemented in 2014. The rates and impact of the assumptions used for flagging centers…2016 American Transplant Congress
ER Stress and Loss of GRP78 Expression Provides a Link Between Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and the Urinary Metabolome.
Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) profoundly impacts graft survival following kidney transplantation. Epithelial injury is one of the earliest histological alterations of IRI and is especially observed…2016 American Transplant Congress
Local Infusion of MyD88 Inhibitor Inhibits Ischemia-Reperfusion Kidney Injury.
We have previously shown that tubular epithelial cells play a central role in regulating ischemia-reperfusion kidney injury (K-IRI). Tubular epithelial cells damaged by hypoxic insult…
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