2018 American Transplant Congress
High Prevalence of New Onset Diabetes Mellitus in a Predominantly Minority Urban Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients and Clinical Outcomes
Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx.
Background: We aimed to determine the prevalence of new onset diabetes after transplant (NODAT) and its association with clinical outcomes in a cohort of predominantly…2018 American Transplant Congress
Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio(NLR) is Significantly Decreased in Kidney Transplant Patients: Is NLR a Novel Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease in Kidney Transplant Patients?
【Background】The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a novel simple biomarker of in inflammation. It has emerged as a predictor of poor prognosis in cancer and cardiovascular…2018 American Transplant Congress
Measures of Physical Frailty, Cardiac Function and Cardiac Biomarkers among Kidney Transplant Candidates
1Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Background: Elevated troponin T at transplant evaluation has been reported to confer risk of cardiovascular mortality among renal transplants. We use troponin T along with…2018 American Transplant Congress
Influence of mTOR Inhibitors on Metabolic Outcomes One Year after Kidney Transplantation: The Role of Pre-Transplantation Diabetes
INTRODUCTION: mTOR inhibitors alter lipids and carbohydrate metabolism in kidney transplant recipients. Little is known if there is any difference between patients who were already…2018 American Transplant Congress
Malignancy Complications after Kidney Transplantation, the Role of Immunosuppression
Introduction: Immunosuppression therapy is essential to avoid rejection after kidney transplantation. The chronic use of this drugs increases the risk of malignancy compared to general…2018 American Transplant Congress
Hyperkalemia in the Early Post Renal Transplant Period
Hyperkalemia is a recognized and potentially life threatening complication post renal transplantation. Aside from delayed graft function, the most frequent culprit identified is pharmacotherapy. Many…2018 American Transplant Congress
Changes in Carotid Arterial Inflammation in De Novo Renal Transplant Recipients as Assessed by 18F-FDG PET/CT
Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Purpose: Inflammatory activity of the arterial wall can be assessed by measuring 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake with positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT). Improvement in vascular…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Vitamin D Status on Immune-Mediated Graft Function Following Kidney Transplantation
Ubiquitous expression of vitamin D receptors on antigen-presenting cells has sparked interest into its immunomodulatory effects. While previous literature has described the effect of vitamin…2018 American Transplant Congress
Progression of Vertebral Bone Disease among Kidney Allograft Recipients on Steroid Maintenance
BackgroundOsteoporosis has been recognized as a significant cause of morbidity post kidney transplantation. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of osteoporosis at one year post…2018 American Transplant Congress
The Price of Diabetes Medication Management in Kidney Transplantation: Similar Rates of Readmissions, but More Healthcare Utilization
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
Background: The aim of this study was to determine whether changing diabetes (DM) medications during the index admission for kidney transplant (KT) is significantly associated…
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