2016 American Transplant Congress
Utility of a Scoring Tool for Living Kidney Donor Volunteers.
A comprehensive yet efficient evaluation of living kidney donor volunteers (LKDV) is key to a successful transplant program. Donor selection is complex and must balance…2016 American Transplant Congress
Impact of HLA-DR Compatibility on Efficacy Outcomes and Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients Following Early Switch from Calcineurin Inhibitor to Everolimus: Subanalysis from the ELEVATE Study.
ELEVATE study group, Llobregat Catalunya, Spain.
Background: Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) compatibility between donor and recipient is considered an important factor for graft outcomes. Compatibility is associated with a lower incidence…2016 American Transplant Congress
Evaluation of an Early Steroid Withdrawal Maintenance Regimen in African American Renal Transplant Recipients.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Introduction: Outcomes in African American (AA) transplant recipients are inferior to other ethnic groups. This population also has an accelerated decline in graft function after…2016 American Transplant Congress
Donor-Recipient Race Matching Is Not Associated with Recipient Survival Following Heart Transplantation.
Purpose: The implications of donor and recipient race matching in heart transplantation are not clear. The objective of this communication is to quantify the association…2016 American Transplant Congress
Calcineurin Inhibitor (CNI) Delay with ATG Induction: Teaching an Old Dog, New Tricks.
CNI delay early after heart transplantation is a recommended therapeutic option according to ISHLT guidelines. However, there exist only few published data on feasibility of…2016 American Transplant Congress
Air Pollution – An Additional Risk Factor for Developing Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy.
Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Purpose:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) remains one of the primary causes of death in long-term follow-up after heart transplantation (HTx) and is the most limiting factor…2016 American Transplant Congress
Survival Benefit from Kidney Transplantation Using Kidneys from Deceased Donors Over 75 Years.
Large registries have shown that end-stage renal disease patients have longer survival after kidney transplantation (KT) than remaining on dialysis. However, the outcome for kidneys…2016 American Transplant Congress
Simultaneous En-Bloc Dual Transplantation: A New Approach.
Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
Purpose: Most techniques of Dual Transplantation are based on the sequential placement of each kidney. This requires more dissection, anesthesia time, and exposes the recipient…2016 American Transplant Congress
The Intrarenal Resistive Index Measured After Transplantation Is Determined by the Upstream Vascular System of the Recipient.
Objective: We recently demonstrated that the renal resistive index, measured after renal transplantation, reflects recipient characteristics, like recipient age and central hemodynamics, and not so…2016 American Transplant Congress
Does Rising MELD Score Convey Worse Liver Transplant Outcome?
Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Since February 2002, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score has been used to allocate liver allografts in the U.S. The aim of this…
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