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2016 American Transplant Congress
Impediments to Timely Listing for HIV+ Patients Being Evaluated for Kidney Transplantation.
D. Lee,¹ A. Aldea,¹ M. Harhay,² S. Akshay,² G. Malat,³ N. Law,¹ S. DeBellis,² T. Bias,¹ S. Boyle,² K. Ranganna,² A. Doyle.²
¹Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia; ²Division of Nephrology, Drexel University, Philadelphia; ³Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
Introduction:HIV+ individuals can be transplanted safely and effectively but face additional barriers in evaluation and listing.MethodsWe performed a single center chart review of all HIV+…
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Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplantation in US Adults with Sickle Cell Nephropathy.
T. Purnell, X. Luo, S. Bae, A. Massie, D. Segev.
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with sickle cell nephropathy (SCN) are less likely to receive a kidney transplant (KT) than ESRD patients without SCN. Comparing…
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Implicit Bias in Dialysis Providers' Transplant Education Practices for Low-Income and Racial/Ethnic Minority Patients.
C. Gonzalez,^1,2 A.-M. McSorley,¹ J. Peipert,¹ K. Norris,¹ C. Goalby,¹ L. Peace,³ P. Lutz,³ A. Waterman.¹
¹University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ²Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA; ³University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO.
Low-income or racial/ethnic minority dialysis patients (low-income/minority) are less likely to receive transplant education and, ultimately, kidney transplant. We conducted a mixed-methods study with 4…
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Pediatric Critical Care Education Impacts Pediatric Organ Donation.
D. Lebovitz,¹ T. Nakagawa,² C. Wright.³
¹Critical Care, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH; ²Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest, NC; ³Lifelink of Florida, Tampa, FL.
Objective: Pediatric donation impacts the disparity between organs needed and organs available for transplantation. We evaluated if a regional educational effort on pediatric donation for…
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Exome Sequencing and HLA-Independent Prediction of Long-Term Kidney Allograft Function.
L. Mesnard,^1,3,6 T. Muthukumar,^2,9 M. Burbach,² C. Li,² H. Shang,⁴ D. Dadhania,^2,3 J. Lee,^2,3 V. Sharma,² J. Xiang,⁴ M. Carmagnat,⁵ C. Suberbielle,⁵ N. Ouali,⁶ E. Rondeau,^6,1 J. Friedewald,⁸ M. Abecassis,⁷ M. Suthanthiran,^2,9 F. Campagne.³
¹UMR1155, INSERM, Paris, France; ²Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York; ³Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, New York, NY; ⁴Genomics Core Facility, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; ⁵Laboratoire d'histocompatibilité Hôpital Saint Louis, APHP, Paris, France; ⁶Service des Urgences Néphrologiques et Transplantation Rénale, APHP, Paris, France; ⁷Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; ⁸Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; ⁹Department of Transplantation Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
Current strategies to improve graft outcome following kidney transplantation consider information at the HLA loci. We asked whether information outside of the HLA loci can…
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Long Term Safety of Intravenous Ketorolac Use After Donor Nephrectomy.
P. Tabrizian,¹ M. Giacca,¹ J. Prigoff,² E. Chin,² M. Palese,² D. Herron,² A. Arvelakis,¹ D. LaPointe Rudow,¹ S. Florman,¹ R. Shapiro.¹
¹Transplant, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, New York, NY; ²Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.
Background: The benefit and short-term safety have been established in previous studies; however, the risk of bleeding and long-term renal impairment in patients undergoing donor…
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Difficult to Place Livers: Implications for Expanding the Donor Pool.
E. Edwards,¹ A. Harper,¹ J. Rosendale,¹ J. Eason.
¹United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; ²Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Introduction. The primary strategic goal for the OPTN is to increase the number of transplants. To that end, we analyzed the characteristics of donors from…
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Defining Ischemic Time in Lung Donation After Circulatory Determination of Cardiac Death.
D. Pratt,¹ Z. Kon,² A. Iacono,² J. Kim,² R. Reed,² I. Timofte,² J. Gammie,² S. Pham,² B. Griffith,² P. Sanchez.²
¹University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; ²Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) promises to increase the number of available lungs for transplantation. Nevertheless, the metrics to define warm ischemic…
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Donor Specific Antibody Used to Predict Crossmatch Results: A Clinically Useful Algorithm Derived from the College of American Pathologists Survey.
S. Wrenn,¹ D.-S. Hain,² S. Harm,² S. Hillyard,² D. Shah,² P. Hammond,² C. Marroquin,¹ M. Fung.²
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT; ²Pathology, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT.
Purpose: While there are multiple modalities to perform a preoperative crossmatch for organ transplant surgery, the cytotoxic crossmatch remains the gold standard for detection of…
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Utility of a Scoring Tool for Living Kidney Donor Volunteers.
S. Lien,¹ L. Willey,² A. Lecuyer-Koich,² M. Voges,² T. Dunn.²
¹Marian University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; ²Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
A comprehensive yet efficient evaluation of living kidney donor volunteers (LKDV) is key to a successful transplant program. Donor selection is complex and must balance…