2016 American Transplant Congress
Thoracic Simulation Allocation Modeling (TSAM) of a 6-Tier Allocation Strategy.
Heart allocation policy (OPTN policy 6) is in development. To stratify medical urgency, the Heart Subcommittee of the OPTN Thoracic Committee developed a 6-tier algorithm…2016 American Transplant Congress
Risk Prediction of End-Stage Renal Disease in Living Kidney Donors.
Recent studies have shown inreased risk of end stage renal disease (ESRD) in living kidney donors compared to healthy nondonors. Donors must understand the risk…2016 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Death-Censored Graft Loss in the DeKAF Study.
The aim of the Deterioration of Kidney Allograft Function study (DeKAF) was to identify and assess the pathologies of troubled kidney grafts, that is, those…2016 American Transplant Congress
Automated Web-Based Monitoring Identifies Significant Clinical Changes in Patients Awaiting Kidney Transplant.
Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Intro: The accuracy and integrity of very large waiting lists are difficult to maintain over time. We implemented newly available information technology to increase access…2016 American Transplant Congress
Cognitive Impairment in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
1University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; 2Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Background: Cognitive impairment is highly prevalent in end stage renal disease. The prevalence of cognitive impairment after kidney transplantation and the factors associated with it…2016 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Clinical Outcomes of Belatacept- and Tacrolimus-Based Immunosuppression in Renal Transplant Recipients.
To examine the utilization and clinical outcomes of belatacept in the real clinical setting, a retrospective cohort study was conducted using SRTR data that compared…2016 American Transplant Congress
U.S. Dialysis Facility Characteristics Associated with Racial Disparities in Access to the Kidney Deceased Donor Transplant Waiting List.
BACKGROUND Dialysis facility characteristics have been significantly associated with variation in U.S. transplant rates but facility characteristics associated with disparities in access to the kidney…2016 American Transplant Congress
An Improved Method for the Evaluation of Microvascular Inflammation in Renal Allograft Biopsies.
Background: Microvascular inflammation (MVI), assessed as glomerulitis (g) + peritubular capillaritis (ptc), is associated with T cell mediated (CMR) and antibody mediated (AMR) allograft rejection.…2016 American Transplant Congress
Antibody Mediated Rejection and Mixed Acute Rejection: Long Term Results and Predictive Factors for Graft Loss Following Proteasome Inhibitor Therapy.
1U of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; 2The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati.
Purpose: Proteasome inhibitor (PI) therapy has been increasingly used to treated antibody mediated rejection (AMR) and mixed acute rejection (MAR). The purpose of this study…2016 American Transplant Congress
A Non-Invasive Blood Transcriptional Assay, Ksort, Monitors Alloimmune Response in the Sailor Randomized Multicenter Trial.
Non-invasive diagnosis and prediction of acute rejection (AR) is a critical unmet need. A In a randomized multicenter trial of 222 renal transplant recipients a…
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