2015 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Kidney Transplant in Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation Improves GFR and Patient Survival
Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Background: Patients requiring combined liver-kidney transplantation (LKTx) are at risk for worse outcomes compared to LTx and KTx alone due to severity of illness and…2015 American Transplant Congress
Avoiding Futility in Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation (SLKT): Analysis of 331 Consecutively Listed Patients
Without well-established listing guidelines for SLKT, MELD prioritization of liver recipients with renal dysfunction potentially risks scarce renal allografts. We sought to evaluate short-term predictors…2015 American Transplant Congress
Replacement of Lamivudine By Telbivudine to Improve Renal Function for Post-Transplant Hepatitis B Patients – A Randomized Clinical Trial
Background: Lamivudine is one of the anti-hepatitis B virus (HBV) agents to prevent HBV recurrence after transplantation because lamivudine is safe for long-term use. However,…2015 American Transplant Congress
Correlation of Serum Creatinine-Based Equations With Radionuclide GFR in Candidates for Liver Transplantation
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Background: Renal dysfunction is common prior to liver transplantation (LTx); however, the best way to determine the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) pre-LTx is unclear. Our…2015 American Transplant Congress
Estimation of Glomerular Filtration Rate With Serum Cystatin C Accurately Discriminates Renal Dysfunction in Liver Transplant Candidates With End-Stage Liver Disease
Background: Renal insufficiency is common in end-stage liver disease (ESLD) and is linked to survival in patients awaiting liver transplantation. Serum creatinine correlates poorly with…2015 American Transplant Congress
Renal Outcomes of Cross Match Positive Simultaneous Liver Kidney (SLK) Transplant Recipients Compared to Cross Match Positive Kidney Allograft Recipients
The protective role of liver in cross-match(XM) positive SLK recipients and its impact on the incidence of renal antibody mediated rejection (AMR) is unclear.A retrospective…2015 American Transplant Congress
New SRTR Risk-Adjustment Models for Adult Kidney Transplant Outcomes
Following a recommendation of the Consensus Conference on Transplant Program Quality and Surveillance, SRTR implemented a 3-year rolling cycle to rebuild the statistical models used…2015 American Transplant Congress
The Effects of High-Risk Donors and Recipients on Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Program-Specific Outcomes
Public reporting of transplant program-specific outcomes may dissuade programs from accepting high-risk donors and recipients, and thereby restrict access to transplant. It has been proposed…2015 American Transplant Congress
UNOS KDPI Score Is Significantly Overestimated for Pediatric En-Bloc Kidneys
Transplant Center, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA.
When Rao, et al, published the Kidney Donor Risk Index model (KDRI) (Transplantation 2009;88:231-236), they found coefficients for HLA match, cold ischemic time, en-bloc (EB)…2015 American Transplant Congress
A Single Center Study of the Implementation Costs of the New Kidney Allocation System
Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
Background: Changes to the Kidney Allocation System (KAS) required transplant programs to utilize resources to prepare for its implementation. A complex strategy was developed which…
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