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  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Dendritic Cells in Kidney Transplant Biopsies Are Associated With Poor Allograft Survival

    I. Batal,1 S. De Serres,1 K. Safa,1 A. Waaga,1 M. Onozato,2 N. Najafian,1 A. Chandraker.1

    1Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 2Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

    Background: Long-term renal allograft survival continues to lag behind the progress seen in short-term transplant outcomes. Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most efficient antigen-presenting cells,…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Non-Invasive Panel of MicroRNAs Predict Long-Term Outcomes Post-Kidney Transplantation

    J. Suh,1 D. Maluf,1 H. Cathro,2 R. Gehrau,1 I. McConnell,1 K. Brayman,1 C. Dumur,2 V. Mas.1

    1Surgery and Pathology, UVA, Charlottesville, VA; 2VCU, Richmond, VA.

    Background. Currently available methods for evaluating kidney graft function post-transplantation (KT) are either ineffective or inaccurate (e.g., serum creatinine) or highly invasive (e.g., biopsies). We…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Decline in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Subsequent Risk of Graft Failure and Mortality Among Kidney Transplant Recipients

    P. Clayton,1,2,3 W. Lim,1,4 S. Chadban.1,2,3

    1Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry, Adelaide, Australia; 2Transplantation, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; 3Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 4Department of Renal Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia.

    Purpose: Graft loss and death are generally late events after kidney transplantation, and trials designed to assess the impact of interventions on these outcomes are…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    ABO-Incompatible Live Donor Kidney Transplants Inferior to ABO-Compatible Transplants, but Match Deceased Donor Results: Is Kidney Paired Donation the Answer?

    J. Verbesey, M. Cooper, A. Gilbert, M. Grafals, P. Weems, J. Moore, S. Ghasemian, C. Nilubol, B. Javaid.

    Georgetown University School of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, Washington, DC.

    Objective: Compare kidney allograft survival in ABO-incompatible (ABO-I) and ABO-compatible (ABO-C) live donor kidney transplant recipients.Methods: We analyzed UNOS database for patients who underwent a…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Does a History of Diabetes in Deceased Donors Modify the Outcomes of Kidney Transplant Recipients With Diabetes?

    T. Rajan, J. Kim.

    Division of Nephrology and the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.

    Background: The outcomes of kidneys from deceased donors with diabetes mellitus (dDM+) transplanted into recipients with DM (rDM+) have not been well studied.Methods: A cohort…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Regional Efficiency in Deceased Donor Utilization for Kidney Transplantation

    K. Schnier,1 N. Turgeon.2

    1School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA; 2Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.

    Background: There currently exists regional variation in the supply of deceased donors as well as the demand for kidney transplantation. This has stimulated a growing…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Effect of Center Volume On Kidney Transplant Outcomes- Mate Kidney Analysis

    T. Klair,1 P. Friedmann,2 L. Kayler.2

    1Abdominal Organ Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY; 2Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

    Background- Reports of the association of center volume and outcomes in kidney transplantation (KTX) may not provide adequate adjustment for donor risk factors. This study…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Disparities in Death and Delisting on the Waitlist for Renal Transplant in the United States

    D. Keith, A. Nishio Lucar, G. Vranic.

    Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

    Waiting time to kidney transplant varies dramatically among organ procurement organizations (OPOs) in the US. We sought to evaluate the association between death and delisting…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    National Outcomes of Kidney Tranplantation from Diabetic Donors: A Mate-Kidney Analysis

    J. Cohen,1 P. Reese,1 P. Porrett,2 R. Bloom,1 K. Forde,3 D. Sawinski.1

    1Renal Division, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; 2Dept of Surgery, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA; 3Division of Gastroenterology, Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia, PA.

    Utilization of diabetic donor kidneys has increased, though scarce patient and allograft survival data are available for recipients of these organs. Using United Network for…
  • 2015 American Transplant Congress

    Transplantation of Neonatal En-Bloc Kidneys: Do They Grow and Are They Subject to Hyperfiltration Injury?

    J. Woloszyn, C. Santhanakrishnan, C. Troppmann, A. DeMattos, B. Gallay, J. McVicar, J. Sageshima, R. Perez.

    UC Davis Transplant Center, Sacramento, CA.

    Importance:Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) kidney donation is rare but a potentially significant kidney source. Concerns with using these small kidneys include the risk for…
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