2016 American Transplant Congress
Effect of Telehealth Monitoring on Early Hospital Readmission After Renal Transplantation.
Introduction: Early hospital readmission (EHR) is an important quality metric of hospitals' performance. Kidney transplant surgery has a high EHR rate. It is not known…2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Early Hospital Readmissions After Kidney Transplantation on Graft Function.
Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Early hospital readmissions are common after kidney transplantation. We investigated the relationship between early hospital readmissions and clinical outcomes in a single-center retrospective study that…2016 American Transplant Congress
Never Events and Hospital Acquired Conditions After Kidney Transplant.
Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL.
Introduction: Never Events (NE) and Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) after surgery have been designated as quality metrics in health care by the centers for Medicare…2016 American Transplant Congress
Utilization of Subacute Rehabilitation Facility Early After Kidney Transplantation.
Sanit Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ.
Introduction: Although kidney transplantation is lifesaving compared to dialysis the relative risk for death is higher early after the surgery. Appropriate perioperative management could mitigate…2016 American Transplant Congress
Factors Affecting Mortality During Waiting Time for Kidney Transplantation: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study Using the Korean Network for Organ Sharing (KONOS) Database.
Background: Longer waiting times for kidney transplant have been suggested to be more deleterious than shorter waiting times. We analyzed the impact of waiting time…2016 American Transplant Congress
Relationship Between Dialisys Duration and Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases in Kidney Transplantation Recipients.
Background: Among kidney transplantation (KTx) recipients, the prevalence of Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is high. However, to our knowledge, the relationship between the prevalence of CVD…2016 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Fatigue After Kidney Transplantation.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Previous research suggests that 60 to 97% of patients on dialysis experience fatigue, or a feeling of persistent tiredness or exhaustion. ESRD patients with fatigue…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Immunosuppression Regimen on Iga Nephropathy Recurrence Post Kidney Transplantation.
Background: Steroid sparing immunosuppression is increasingly used in order to avoid the many well-known side effects of steroids. It has been argued that steroid use…2016 American Transplant Congress
Outcome After Kidney Transplant (KTx) in Patients with Chronic Hypotension on Haemodialysis (HD).
5% of the HD population have chronic hypotension ( hypotension in the absence of volume depletion, antihypertensive medication, heart failure or cortisol deficiency). The perioperative…2016 American Transplant Congress
Which Post-Transplant Complications Are More Common in Elderly Renal Recipients?
Renal Transplantation Service, Hospital das Clinicas - University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Elderly recipients are listed for renal transplantation (RTx) more frequently. The immediate (first 60 days) post-transplant complications expected in this group have not been well…
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